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Book Reviews

Monday, January 31, 2005

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Made-to-measure skin and bones using inkjet printers: "Made-to-measure skin and bones, which could be used to treat burn victims or patients who have suffered severe disfigurements, may soon be a reality using inkjets which can print human cells. Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the breakthrough technology which will allow tailor-made tissues and bones to be grown, simply by inputting their dimensions into a computer." [Biology News]

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Biology News: "[The] site is a daily updated news feed about everything biology - stem cells, biotechnology, bioinformatics, microarrays, molecular and cellular biology." [nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog]

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Blair doodles attributed to Bill Gates: "We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics ascribed to the prime minister on the basis of the doodles, such as 'struggling to concentrate', 'not a natural leader', 'struggling to keep control of a confusing world' and 'an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure', equally apply to Mr Gates."

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Distributed computing helps revise climate change models...: "Science.Ars looks at the results of a distributed computing project focused on climate change modeling." [Ars Technica]

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The case against the Shuffle: "The iPod shuffle does not have to just put any of your tunes on it, such as the bad ones. You can load ANY playlist and have it shuffle. You can have it only load your highest-rated songs. So you do not have to listen to junk while you run. You can have a group of 250 songs from working out, another for running. And it will shuffle each one. All for less than $100 dollars." [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]

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Aceh rebel talks begin in Finland: "The Indonesian government and Aceh's separatist rebels sit down for talks in Finland, a month on from the tsunami." [BBC News | World | UK Edition]