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Scientists Develop Plastic Blood
Researchers at Sheffield University in the UK have devised artificial blood; plastic molecules with an iron atom at their core. Like hemoglobin, it can carry oxygen through the body. Unlike hemoglobin, it doesn’t go bad at warm temperatures and is easy to carry and store.Link (via SciFi Tech)
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Which Serenity Character Are You?
I worked out to be Dr. Simon Tam. Much better than being a Reaver, I suppose.Link
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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
I was digging around in the stat logs and checked the search phrases that have brought people to the O*W*C. Below are some phrases that people have actually entered (first question: Why?!?) which have led them to this site: catwoman inventor of ramen quote students with cranial shunts miniature marzipan vegetables rupaul s quotes autumn…
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The Gender Genie
Here’s an interesting quasi-AI toy: Inspired by an article and a test in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses an algorithm to predict the gender of an author. (I’d be somewhat more impressed if every single piece of writing I submitted wasn’t identified as being written by a man.)Link
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This Post is 100% Science Fiction-Free
However, I am wiping literal tears of laughter from my eyes, because this is exactly the kind of thing I go through with Shadog the Greater and Shadog the Lesser on a regular basis. Dog: I am starving.Me: Actually, no. You aren’t starving. You get two very good meals a day. And treats. And Best…
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Best. Grassroots Movement. Ever.
The McFly 2015 project is a movement to convince Nike to produce the futuristic-looking sneakers worn by Marty McFly in the year 2015 scene of Back to the Future 2.Link (via Neatorama) Update: I just got an e-mail from “Mickey” Maloof, the co-founder of the project: This is an update on the official website of…
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Ancient Star is Nearly as Old as the Universe
A metal-poor star called HE 1523 here in the Milky Way has been dated to 13.2 billion–billion, with a B–years old, which is only half a billion years younger than our estimated age of the universe, and only a quarter of a billion years younger than Dick Clark.Link
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loltrek
So you’ve seen the lolcats at places like I Can Has Cheezeburger. (There’s quite a good writeup about the phenomenon at Anil Dash’s site. That has been taken to the next level, with loltrek. Tribbles has mah bucket!
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If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories
Shrove Tuesday (Observed), a collaboration amongst many Internet humorists dear to my heart which had somehow escaped my notice until I stumbled upon it in a Wikipedia article about something else entirely, has a wonderful parody of an awful lot of SF…. After a short wait, they were ushered onto the plane with the other…
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Read This Number, and an Angel Loses its Wings
The word going around the Intartubes is that this an HD-DVD decryption key. As you might imagine, some folks at the MPAA are upset that it’s been made available. That’s unfortunate. So if you see this number sequence, just look away and do not spread it around or tell anyone. (via Wil Wheaton)