{"id":15521,"date":"2007-12-28T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/print-your-own-beating-heart-more.html"},"modified":"2007-12-28T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T09:29:09","slug":"print_your_own_beating_heart_more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/28\/print_your_own_beating_heart_more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Print your own beating heart &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>NPR reports that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17097173\">Bioartists&#8217; Flesh Sculptures Draw Fans and Critics<\/a>.&#8221;&#160; Yeah, sawing open a cow femur to &#8220;paint&#8221; a &#8220;living sculpture of skin&#8221; will probably do that.&#160; Given that it&#8217;s now possible to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2007\/11\/printed-heart-c.html\">print&#8221; beating heart cells<\/a>, you know it was just a matter of time until peeps got busy with the creative mis(?)use. <\/li>\n<li> Supercomputers at Sandia National Laboratories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news\/resources\/releases\/2007\/asteroid.html\">offer new insights<\/a> into the 1908 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunguska_event\">Tunguska disaster<\/a>.&#160; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news\/resources\/releases\/2007\/images\/mark.jpg\">generated image<\/a> just happens to look pretty cool&#8211;kind of a fiery Polynesian sculpture.<\/li>\n<li>Is Facebook using image science to <a href=\"http:\/\/s92251467.onlinehome.us\/Dan\/facebook\/imagescan.html\">analyze your photos<\/a> for fun and profit?&#160; No, not yet&#8211;at least that we know of.&#160; Thankfully <a href=\"http:\/\/pranks.com\/2007\/12\/15\/facebook-takes-it-on-the-chin\/\">it&#8217;s a hoax<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.we-make-money-not-art.com\/~r\/wmmna\/~3\/202036950\/regine\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Bugs on &#8216;roids?&#160; In the NYT Natalie Angier talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/25\/science\/25angi.html?th&amp;emc=th\">seemingly crazy lengths to which animals will go<\/a> to compete, survive, and reproduce.&#160; &#8220;Male cardinals and house finches become obsessed each fall with eating berries and other ruddy fruits, not for their nutritional value,&#8221; but to make their plumage colorful.&#160; (They&#8217;d probably buy AXE Plumage Spray, too, if they could just peck open the dispensers.) <\/li>\n<li>The paper features an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2007\/12\/14\/business\/20071217_PROTON_GRAPHIC.html#step1\">informative Flash-based rendering<\/a> of the Proton Therapy Institute&#8217;s new $125M cancer-zapping behemoth.<\/li>\n<li>On Flickr Carl Zimmer has assembled a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlzimmer\/sets\/72157601351535771\/\">photo set of science-related tattoos<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/20\/flickr-photoset-of-s.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The National Geographic Society has <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/12\/071214-giant-skeleton.html\">not<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/12\/071214-giant-skeleton.html\"> discovered ancient giant humans<\/a>, despite rampant reports and pictures,&#8221; they <u>swear<\/u>.&#160; They claim it&#8217;s all just a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/12\/photogalleries\/giantskeleton-pictures\/index.html\">Photoshop job<\/a>.&#160; Sure, sure; but I&#8217;m looking over my shoulder, and <em>up.<\/em> \ud83d\ude09 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/12\/20\/national-geographic-1.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR reports that &#8220;Bioartists&#8217; Flesh Sculptures Draw Fans and Critics.&#8221;&#160; Yeah, sawing open a cow femur to &#8220;paint&#8221; a &#8220;living sculpture of skin&#8221; will probably do that.&#160; Given that it&#8217;s now possible to &#8220;print&#8221; beating heart cells, you know it was just a matter of time until peeps got busy with the creative mis(?)use. 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