Sheesh…while I’ve been off galivanting around the globe the industrious folks at the Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (sic) have been busy cloning a camel. Of all creatures! Life and tech on earth is indeed speeding up.
All I know is, Injaz is a good name for an avatar.
Upon reading news of ‘the world’s cheapest car’ it made me notice an apparent contradiction between people’s efforts trying to slow global warming, and trying to slow global economic recession. Bailing out the U.S. automakers, for instance — possibly helps slow the recession, while possibly hurting the environment.
Which leads me to the headline question: Did mother nature have a hand in causing the global economic recession, in order to slow global warming? Could Mona be another ‘invisible hand’ on the market of which economists speak?
I saw a reference to this video on The Old New Thing and since I’m too lazy to write my own post today, am sharing this with my four faithful readers. (Also I couldn’t come up with anything even close to this in quality.)
Yesterday’s Wired Science posted an article by Alexis Madrigal titled Biologists on the verge of creating new forms of life. It discusses how a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, is building simple cell models called ‘protocells’ that ‘can almost be called life’.
Quick, somebody author a Wikipedia entry for ‘protocells’!
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