Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-21-2009

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• The In Vitro Meat Consortium - Home
  an international alliance of environmentally concerned scientists striving to facilitate the establishment of a large-scale process industry for the production of muscle tissue for human consumption. VAT GROWN MEAT
  (tags: meat food parts vatgrownmeat bioengineering)
   
• My SXSW: A Girl in the Band By the Numbers
  388 of the roughly 2000 artists at SXSW have a female member.
  (tags: sex failure music sxsw gender popularmusic rock guyville)
   
• Physiognomy and moneylending | About face | The Economist
  Unfortunately, Dr Duarte's method was not designed to find out which features label someone as trustworthy.
  (tags: ha economics psychology statistics credit)
   
• Undersea eruptions near Tonga - The Big Picture - Boston.com
  nice shots of the tongan kaboom
  (tags: news photography geology volcano)
   
• LiveNewsCameras.com - Watch Live Streaming News From the USA & World - Beta Version
  (tags: news streaming via:genericus cams tv)
   
• Costly Online Organ-Transplant Scam Results in Death, Arrest
  "After seeing Feldman's online site, liver4you.org, the pair wired $70,000 to a New York bank account for Feldman last year."
  (tags: villainy crime fraud news medicine death florida parts)

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Eventually someone will try that vat trick with a huge sheet of human brain tissue, and it'll either solve all our problems or end up like some version of colossus - the forbin project.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Or we could get a gigantic lump of mediocrity. Think 400 kg of Thomas Friedman brain tissue.