UV tattoos, stem cells cure blindness, reviving the mammoth, Near Earth Object map…

• 1 – REVIEW: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
  SF Signal takes on the latest masterpiece from Vernor Vinge…they’re not as keen on it as I was, it seems.
  (tags: literature sf scifi fiction science End Rainbows Vinge Vernor review books)
• 2 – Blacklight Tattoos
  Gallery of UV blacklight tattoos at Wired.
  (tags: mod body culture clubbing gallery images photos art tattoos blacklight UV)
• 3 – Ron Patrick’s Jet Powered Scooter
  No, you really read that correctly, and it really is what it claims to be. Ridiculous, but also very cool, in a suicidal street-ride kinda way. Not finished yet, but the guy’s jet Beetle works fine. Loony.
  (tags: madness engineering bike street powered engine jet scooter modding mod technology)
• 4 – Using Stem Cells to Cure Blindness
  Does what it says on the tin – animal tests showing promising results.
  (tags: science human repair regeneration photoreceptors blindness retina biology biotech medicine cell stem)
• 5 – Old Media Grow Richer On The Net
  Video killed the radio star…only it didn’t, really. Nor has the web yet killed off the print media, despite trends showing a shift of focus. Forbes.com rejects the hype.
  (tags: unimedia multimedia blogosphere internet new obsolescence decline cinema TV newspapers print old media)
• 6 – Bringing back the woolly mammoth – maybe
  Recent tests with frozen sperm offer hope that prehistoric animals could be recreated by inseminating modern relatives. Crichton’s conceit gets another crack of the whip.
  (tags: age ice mammoth woolly recreation insemination revival animals prehistoric genetics biotech)
• 7 – Baby star found near galaxy’s violent centre
  A good week for cosmological mysteries. If this star is what it appears to be, no one knows how the hell it formed in that region…
  (tags: cosmology science mystery proximity hole black star young galaxy space)
• 8 – Thousands of planet-forming discs discovered
  …and here’s another – loads of dust discs discovered, but not as many as expected.
  (tags: cosmology science mystery galaxy shortfall discs dust complex cloud Orion space)
• 9 – Near Earth Object Map
  Should you find yourself navigating around the solar system near earth, here is a map of all the *known* rocks you might crash into. There’s a lot of them, too.
  (tags: astronomy danger course collision orbit path cross map Object Earth Near Aten Apollo asteroids space)
• 10 – How to triple-boot Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu
  I know I keep saying it, but I really am going to go open-source sometime soon. This tutorial could be handy.
  (tags: partition install boot dual Ubuntu Linux XP Vista Windows PC OS computer)

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