Edited by John L. Petersen

johnp@arlingtoninstitute.org

In This Issue:

FUTURE FACTS - FROM THINK LINKS

DID YOU KNOW THAT…

• Scientists from UC Berkeley report that they have developed a method capable of decoding the patterns in visual areas of the brain to determine what someone has seen.

• Ordering a hamburger might soon sound something like this: “One charbroiled cloned-beef patty, with genetically modified cheese, lab-grown bacon and vitamin-C-fortified lettuce, on a protein-spiked bun.

• The “BigDog” quadruped robot can climb through rubble, snow, jump over obstacles like a wild goat, and save itself from a near-fall on iced ground at the last second. (Video clip).

• An Egyptian man said: “People are fighting. Killing for bread, some are even pulling out knives. What is happening? What is this? Famine? ”

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Edited by John L. Petersen
johnp@arlingtoninstitute.org

In This Issue:

• A protein produced by human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can inhibit the growth and spread of breast cancer and malignant melanoma.

• The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850.

• Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, estimates the true cost of the Iraq is over three trillion dollars, not including the cost to Iraq.

• China, worried about an ageing population, is studying scrapping its controversial one-child policy but will not do away with family-planning policies altogether.

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