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• Two articles to get you in the mood for Halloween. First: Scientists grew a human ear on the back of a mouse awhile back, now a Performer has third ear grafted to his arm.
• Second: New Scientist has a cool article How does it feel to die? It covers decapitation, drowning, heart attack, electrocution, fire, and others.
• Lap Dancers in “heat” get Better Tips, meaning women have some unknown method for making males aware of their fertility.
• Satire is not a dead art: White House: “More Study Needed” on Gore Nobel.
• Companies are working on Interoperable Virtual Worlds, just as there is one World Wide Web, until all virtual worlds can interact, the medium won’t evolve.
• MySpace account for deceased people, now virtual avatars: Managing Second Life from the Afterlife
• Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Brain-computer interface for Second Life
• Do you get cravings for chocolate? It might me your Gut Bacteria.
• Rough week for Climate Change skeptics. First Gore and the IPCC take the Nobel Peace Prize, and now SimCity adds global warming to its mix.
• Our cosmic companion has some quirky characteristics, scientists think Venus and Jupiter Helped Shape the Moon’s Orbit through Gravitational Resonance caused when the two planets aligned. Neat.
• Being scientifically-minded with a humanities background, Socratic Electronics has me geeking out.

Zebrafish Embryo

• Ohhhhh… Patterns in Nature: Rocks
• Ahhhhh… 2007 photomicroscopy winners