ScientificAmerican.com: Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?

Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts? An interesting article regarding regeneration of human limbs. By Ken MuneokaManjong HanDavid M. Gardiner Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend © 1996-2008 Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.Reproduction in whole or in part without…

Amerika

Have received an email from the friend, recently gone on business trip to USA: “We are living in Amerika … coca-cola … sometimes war … Dude! These peasants over here are living in the past … about comfort/ technology / ergonomy … and they behave like imbeciles.Seems to me that they thought they are the…

Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking – New York Times

Mainframes are not dead! As usual geeks lose to suits: “The unfulfilled predictions of demise, experts say, tend to overestimate the importance of pure technical innovation and underestimate the role of business judgment. “The rise and fall of technologies is mainly about business and not technological determinism,” said Richard S. Tedlow, a business historian at…

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

I am back from the real world (vacation) to online lair and have read backlog of interesting news. This one I have liked very much: Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Basically this is virtual display on the eye, you don’t need to replace human eyes with artificial tools, just…