Long-time readers know that I am a huge fan of Merlin’s excellent 43 folders blog. In this blog entry, he writes about writing sensible email messages. I especially like the sections on writing a great subject line and brevity. As he notes, “It’s completely depressing to check your email at 4:55 in the afternoon to [...]

The latest issue of Tissue Engineering discusses two tissue engineering techniques that could lead to the affordable, in vitro production of meat for human consumption.

While vat-grown organs have long been a staple of science fiction, and vat produced food has been featured in at least one science fiction movie, the TE paper is the first [...]

No one ever said naming was easy. In fact, some call naming a competitive sport. That said, re-naming a city or a landmark has got to be one of the hardest things in the world. Take for example the renaming of South Africa’s capital Pretoria. According to the BBC,
Pretoria was named after a settler and [...]