How would you like to eat cuts from slabs of meat grown from stem cells?   Give the cells some water, glucose and natural proteins. To make sure you have something that feels like meat you “exercise” the muscle with electrical pulses. Gross? Maybe. But someone is thinking about it. http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2008-09/inside-vertical-skyscraper As with all zing, post story →

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This is a fantastic article summarizing some key issues with wave energy and the solution Alan Burns, an oil bloke from Australia, has come up with. It appears he’s taking lessons from his expertise in off-shore drilling (it’s safer to work on the bottom of the sea) and applying it to wave energy. It’s a →

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