Need to get up to speed on your first aid skills? Maybe you had no skills to speak of, but you’d like to know a little bit about how to help others when a disaster strikes. Well, the folks at St. John Ambulance have developed a series of first aid podcasts that cover scenarios from [...]

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 [...]

If you’re at all interested in minimal, electronic music (and you know we are), you might want to surf over to 12K and check out their annual summer sale. They’re offering a free CD for every three you order – a pretty good deal. Not sure where to start? The recently reviewed Shuttle 356 “Chessa” [...]

Are you worried about the future glut of obituaries in national newspapers? asks Jason Kottke at his seminal Kottke.org. He wonders if the New York Times obituary section will swell to 30 pages. It’s probably just a matter of time before someone starts aggregating all the obituaries and you’ll be able to subscribe to them [...]

NY Times article.