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tracker7 ([personal profile] tracker7) wrote2007-11-20 10:49 pm

Shadow Cabinet

Ace Combat 04 arrived today, and I played through the first four missions.  It's tremendous fun, and I can gleefully ignore the arcade-game aspects of it.  Frankly, it is an absolute hoot to shoot down a MiG-29 from an F-4.

Unmarked police car alert:  Bourbon County has a grey final-generation Pontiac Grand Am.

The first two workdays of the week have been decent.  They've gone by pretty quickly.  Tomorrow, though, is probably going to be a monster.  We have to complete two full-run editions, plus a half-dozen feature sections.

Teams of scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Kyoto University have announced that they've developed a method of, from what I'm understanding, essentially reprogramming skin cells to mimic embryonic stem cells.  I think this is terrific news for scientific advancement, and I hope that new avenues of research open up.  I'm actually strongly in favor of using actual embryonic cells for biological and medical research - most of you know my feelings on this, and if you don't, drop me an e-mail if you care enough to ask - but the current political climate in the USA doesn't lend itself to that.

While I'm at it, JAXA has released photos taken by its lunar-orbit mission.  Beautiful images, strongly - and probably deliberately - reminiscent of the Apollo 8 photographs from 1968.

Man, I do love science.