Links for 08-06-2007
Ethical cloning breakthrough, the future of newspapers, Biggest. Star. EVAR., DIY Chechnyan weapons, urbanisation affecting rainfall…
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1 – Cloning advances may defuse ethical hurdles
“Four new studies in mice report advances in making cloned stem cells which – if successful in humans – would sidestep some of the major ethical barriers to their use.”
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2 – 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
“It’s not Google’s fault. Get over it, professor. Blaming search engines is like blaming the library. “Oh no, please don’t let readers actually find stories from my newspaper and then click through to my site to read them, anything but that!” Fo
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3 – Astronomers find most massive star ever discovered
“… and it’s a bruiser, weighing in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses.” That’s, like, pretty damn big.
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4 – Gliese 581: Stable but No Transits
“During the observation period, Gliese 581 showed little change in brightness, indicating a level of stability that would prove beneficial to the growth of life…”
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5 – HiRISE | High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
The HiRISE homepage – fresh hi-def pics of the Martian surface. Yum!
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“Shots of the various self-made weapons seized by Russian army and police in Chechnya.” Via StreetUse. Gotta give them credit for ingenuity – those are some brutally functional looking tools.
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7 – City growth is reducing rainfall
“After controlling for year-to-year fluctuations in weather, they found that urbanisation was having a statistically significant impact on rainfall around the region’s cities.”
