http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/

some pretty neat stuff

personal favs are empty beer bottles, glow in the dark dog, google for evolution and massively collaborative mathematics

12/14/2009 10:55:36 PM

can u tell em what its about so that i dont have to click the link

12/14/2009 10:56:24 PM

since i still have it open, ex:

Quote :

" Glow-in-the-Dark Dog, The In April, the world was introduced to Ruppy, the first known fluorescent dog. In natural light, Ruppy seems to be an almost-normal beagle — though his paws look as if he has stepped in pink ink. Under ultraviolet light, the effect is quite evident: he emits an eerie red glow. Ruppy is the first transgenic puppy, which means that he has genes taken from another species. His red fluorescent luminosity comes from the gene of a sea anemone: the gene was introduced into a dog's skin cell; the nucleus was then cloned and transferred to another dog's egg cell, which was then fertilized and eventually became Ruppy. In what is perhaps a stab at genetic humor, his name is also a hybrid, having been formed by combining "Ruby" and "Puppy." Scientists performed the experiment to demonstrate the feasibility of cross-species implants of genes that control for a specific trait (in this case, fluorescence). The hope is that transgenic dogs can now be created to acquire specific human diseases, which will make them valuable biomedical research subjects. Transgenic mice are already in widespread use, but because rodents are so different from humans, they can be difficult to conduct tests on. CheMyong Jay Ko, a fertility researcher at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and one of the team members responsible for Ruppy's creation, says there is another reason he would rather use transgenic dogs in his studies than mice: he can measure the hormones of the dogs without having to kill them. "I use more than 1,000 mice each year," Ko says, explaining that his team has to kill the mice in order to draw their blood for research. Unlike the rodents, Ruppy can provide useful scientific knowledge without necessarily having to sacrifice his life."

12/14/2009 11:13:03 PM

^ That is kind of scary.

12/14/2009 11:22:16 PM

^^all i see is the matrix codes

dont bother catering to me im just lazy

12/14/2009 11:25:53 PM