Have a bite of test tube steak
Published 10:57 pm Friday, January 15, 2010
Try a dash of Bacon Salt: Dutch scientists say they haven’t got the texture quite right, but they’ve been able to manufacture meat in a petri dish starting with just a few pig stem cells. One biologist describes the meat as a little squishy and moist.
No, it doesn’t sound very appetizing, but then how much of what goes into a hot dog does?
Filling me up with your rules: The Seattle parks department is considering a list of 31 misbehaviors it wants to ban in city parks, including smoking and spitting.
Other rules up for consideration: Playing Bob Marley CDs would be limited to alternate Saturdays at Green Lake. Pot smokers at Gas Works Park must stand downwind of others. And adult visitors to the Olympic Sculpture Park would have to keep a straight face when explaining to their children the fountain featuring a nude father and son.
Check Craigslist: NASA has lowered its price for the space shuttles, which it is offering for sale once the aging spacecraft are retired this fall. The asking price has dropped to $28.8 million from $42 million.
We were all set to buy one until Mrs. Buzz said we couldn’t park it in the front yard to part it out.
