It would be amusing (in an evil overlord sense) if they could create the snow crash effect in a movie. This said, there is is a very funny comp.basilik faq in one of the 1999 December issues of Nature in the "futures" section. Online you have to be a subscriber, but you can get hard copy at a public library. (basilik's being visual images that cause the viewer to crash. as seen in all sorts of SFnal writings: Snow Crash natch, a short story in The Mind's I with a Godelian sentence for humans(iirc?), Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone by Ian McDonald, etc etc) sh
Earlier this month the New York Times (it's not online anymore) and the Washington Post reported that researchers in Connecticut and Japan cloned six calves from skin cells taken from the ear of a bull and stored for months in the lab. A long ways away from cloning?! The interesting points are that they used skin cells, from a male, and stored them for a long period of time.
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On a related note, Nature Science Updated recently had this article:- 2.html
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030908/030908
"A bat-inspired sonar walking stick could help visually impaired people sense their surroundings."
It would be amusing (in an evil overlord sense) if they could create the snow crash effect in a movie. This said, there is is a very funny comp.basilik faq in one of the 1999 December issues of Nature in the "futures" section. Online you have to be a subscriber, but you can get hard copy at a public library. (basilik's being visual images that cause the viewer to crash. as seen in all sorts of SFnal writings: Snow Crash natch, a short story in The Mind's I with a Godelian sentence for humans(iirc?), Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone by Ian McDonald, etc etc) sh
Earlier this month the New York Times (it's not online anymore) and the Washington Post reported that researchers in Connecticut and Japan cloned six calves from skin cells taken from the ear of a bull and stored for months in the lab. A long ways away from cloning?! The interesting points are that they used skin cells, from a male, and stored them for a long period of time.