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Giant space vegetables 'could feed the world'Struggling for space in [...] Posted at POSTHUMAN BLUES May 17, 08:00 GMT Giant space vegetables 'could feed the world' Struggling for space in giant hothouses at the Guandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences are 21lb (9.5kg) tomatoes and enormous watermelons. Researchers fired off a batch of 2,000 seeds into space in 2006 on the Shijian 8 satellite. After germination the best specimens were [...] Angel Oak Posted at growabrain May 17, 07:01 GMT Angel Oak Angel Oak is a Southern live oak tree located in Angel Oak Park, in Charleston, South Carolina, on Johns Island, one of South Carolina's Sea Islands. It is estimated to be over 1500 years old, standing 65 feet... Rhymes for no reason Posted at MonkeyFilter May 17, 06:50 GMT Rhymes for no reason Conyers: “We’re closing in on Rove. ... Posted at American Samizdat: Rebel Scum Since 2001 May 17, 05:20 GMT Architecture of Authority Posted at growabrain May 17, 04:54 GMT Architecture of Authority Richard Ross’s Architecture of Authority. (Click on left button. From Bryan Finoki) The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street The Architecture of the Piano and other Piano-related Photo Pools on Flickr A Huge Depository of... Also posted: Sweet Baby Jesus Synopsis: Sharing :: Hyperconnectivity Posted at URBEINGRECORDED May 17, 02:10 GMT Mark Pesce has written a truly insightful piece of analysis over on his blog, The Human Network. In a moment of synchronicty, I found his article just after ranting about these same concepts: the democratization of content and broadcast and the tools of creation; the power of mobile communication and ... Also posted: Black Holes May Conserve Info Things You Can't Do Coked Up Posted at MonkeyFilter May 16, 20:20 GMT Things You Can't Do Coked Up (via MetaChat) Also posted: A transatlatlantic 'Crazy Raspberry' Ants Swarm Over Texas Coast Amputee runner wins right to try for Olympic spot Posted at No Touch Monkey! May 16, 14:30 GMT [pic] Amputee runner wins right to try for Olympic spot LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has won the right to compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to [...] Cook finds gecko in chook egg Posted at MonkeyFilter May 16, 13:20 GMT Cook finds gecko in chook egg - "Maybe this happens all the time,'' he said. "Maybe geckos regularly crawl inside chickens for a feed." Isn't nature wonderful? Make a Ball, Have a Ball Posted at Bernie DeKoven, funsmith May 16, 12:40 GMT [pic] Click here for a short presentation on the art of DIY [...] Instant messaging 'a linguistic renaissance' for teens Posted at KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News May 16, 12:20 GMT A study by speech researchers suggests that instant messaging represents "an expansive new linguistic renaissance" for teenagers. (Source: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19826566.600-instant-messaging-a-linguistic-renaissance-for-teens.html) Also posted: Are there nuclear reactors at Earth's core? Crystal (eye) ball: Study says visual system equipped with 'future seeing powers' Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing Green tea compounds beat OSA-related brain deficits Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era IBM Research Unveils Breakthrough In Solar Farm Technology Fifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch The Smoking Gun - Backstage Pass Posted at MonkeyFilter May 16, 11:00 GMT The Smoking Gun - Backstage Pass Everyone is familiar with the Smoking Gun, CourtTV's more upscale answer to Rotten.com. But have you seen their extensive and amusing archive of tour riders? The three funniest: Foo Fighters 2008 Omen of China’s earthquake Posted at growabrain May 16, 10:01 GMT Were toads an omen of China’s earthquake? My friend read on the Chinese internet wire: Days before China’s massive earthquake, hundreds of thousands of toads swarmed through a town near the epicentre, leading to a storm of speculation on whether... He climbs stairs! He serves beverages! He conducts orchestras!Wait a [...] Posted at POSTHUMAN BLUES May 16, 08:40 GMT He climbs stairs! He serves beverages! He conducts orchestras! Wait a second -- why was I calling it "he" . . . ? (Thanks: Rewiring the brain from sight to sound to sight again Posted at KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News May 16, 07:39 GMT California Institute of Technology researchers have found that the brain doesn't lose one sensory ability (sound movement, in this case) when it rewires an area for use by another sense (visual movement, in this case). The MT+/V5 area of the brain is used for visual motion processing in sighted people. In the formerly blind people they studied, this area had been co-opted for processing auditory motion (sounds moving from side to side). ...