Black hole paradox solved, test-tube meat, homosexual animals…

• 1 – Index Translationum: UNESCO Culture Sector
  What is the world reading? UN statistics on books in translation around the world.
  (tags: books UN bibliography statistics reference literature libraries language translation)
• 2 – Overconfidence is a disadvantage in war, finds study
  Hey, Dubya, c’mere, read this…OK, OK, someone read it out for him. And skip the big words.
  (tags: psychology terrorism US Iraq confidence conflict game politics military research theory war)
• 3 – Files Are Not for Sharing, by Matthew Baldwin & Goopymart
  Great little cartoon satirising the anti-piracy messages from the content industries. Via Human Iterations.
  (tags: industry content P2P humour sharing file DRM children piracy comic satire copyright)
• 4 – NASA’s Chandra Solves Black Hole Paradox
  Magnetic fields are the key to the paradox that black holes provide nearly a quarter of the radiation in the universe.
  (tags: fields magnetic universe emissions paradox theory radiation holes black supermassive Chandra NASA)
• 5 – Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table
  Another common science fiction trope edges closer to reality. It’ll come in handy when there’s no biosphere left and we all live in orbital habitats.
  (tags: cloning scifi SF fiction grown vat futurism health meat food science)
• 6 – The Gay Animal Kingdom
  Homosexuality is extremely common in nature – one in the eye for the Bible brigade.
  (tags: controversy homosexuality psychology animals sexuality biology evolution science)
• 7 – Jets get Internet … Finally!
  USAF jet pilots get internet connections in their planes. But will they be rocking Firefox or IE, and how long before someone gets busted for surfing porn mid-mission? And will it be possible to spam them with trojans?
  (tags: network TTNT datalink internet fighter jet force air US technology military)
• 8 – Iraqi TV Ad: Stop Your Suicide Bombing
  Bizarre anonymously funded TV ad attempts to discourage bombers in Iraq. The more I read articles like this, the more I’m convinced that J. G. Ballard has written me (and everyone else) into some really twisted story.
  (tags: war funding anonymous discouragement bombing suicide ad advert TV Iraq)
• 9 – Dekra D-Drive System – the chainless bike
  I may have posted this before, but I’m not sure; it’s not showing as having been tagged by me yet. Dekra replace the two bits of a bike that always cause problems (chain and derrailleurs) with a cunning shaft-drive system. I want one.
  (tags: Dekra drive shaft simplicity efficiency maintenance derrailleurs gears chain bicycle bike)
• 10 – BumpTop’s Realistic Desktop Experience
  This makes every GUI desktop you have ever seen before look unbelievably rubbish. I need this software immediately. Watch the video, and see what I mean.
  (tags: OS software computer interface graphical BumpTop desktop GUI Windows)
• 11 – Blimp-borne telescopes could rival Hubble
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: futurism atmosphere orbit power solar blimp technology telescope space)
• 12 – Reading ‘to go’ for blind people
  Ray Kurzweil actually comes up with real products in between all that Singularity evangelism we love him for. Go, Ray!
  (tags: technology PDA photoscan invention portable machine device reading blind Kurzweil)
• 13 – Nanosolar to build world’s largest solar cell factory
  Cheap solar-cell tech that actually works! Let’s hope this works out like they say it will.
  (tags: ecology futurism funding manufacturing printing roll Nanosolar generation energy panel solar)
• 14 – Sir Clive’s pocket-sized bicycle
  Looks like a better proposition than the laughable C5…slightly.
  (tags: urban transport entrepreneur invention bicycle bike folding Sinclair Clive Sir)
• 15 – Guardian launches printable internet edition | Press Gazette
  The Grauniad gets wise…shame the writing isn’t so hot these days.
  (tags: computer technology news web update regular PDF download Guardian newspaper)