Update: Looks like Pesco got to this one earlier this week!
Guido sez, "GM mice modified to have their neurons of 90 shades of color, each one shining in its unique way. A clever trick (this is a true example of biohacking) allow differential expression of color markers in each neuron in a way analogue to the display of pixels in a monitor. This will really improve things for people who does brain research and study the way the brain is wired. Santiago Ramon y Cajal would be very excited about this. Besides this, the pictures are exquisitely beautiful, this is bioart too."
Ira Flatow did a great segment with the principal researcher this week on the NPR show Science Friday (this is one of the two science podcasts I'm religiously devoted to, the other being CBC's Quirks and Quarks -- having these shows in my earbuds once a week is one of the coolest things about living in the twenty-first century). Link
"There are beautiful parts in [Wenner's] book, but it sensationalizes Hunter unecessarily. It's meant to portray him as losing his mind at the end, but he was not. He was just as kind and decent and brilliant as when he was younger.
. She told me Hunter would have loved my shirt.)
Bonnie sez, "Find out how to make a giant Jabba the Hutt puppet out of irrigation tubing, foam mattress padding, spandex fabric, plastic bowls and other supplies from discount and hardware stores!"
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Lasse Klein designed this fantastic Alien Abduction Lamp. It's still a concept model but Klein hopes to someday bring it to market. 
Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as "dead" batteries!
The researchers will next use Brainbow to compare how these changes occur in other groups of animals and plan to create transgenic fish, insects and nematode worms incorporating the genes. But the technique may also have applications in other areas such as drug development, Lichtman says. 'This may be a good tool to study certain disorders of the nervous system where the synaptic circuitry may be miswired (such as autism spectrum disorders). If there were potential therapies being developed for these conditions this tool might be used to see the effects of these therapies in animal models,' he suggests.
When this game was first released in 1880 it was so hugely popular in taverns and inns that the bank of England was forced to mint more threepenny bits to keep up with demand. The game was created by messrs Nam & Nam and Co. as a novelty pastime for the masses. Outdoing the previous top public house game of Shove Ha’penny.
Moving numerals, three feet high, will tell Londoners the time when a monster clock now under construction in one of this British city’s railroad stations is completed. The big timepiece is believed the largest without hands ever built. Three endless belts of steel slats, driven by an electric motor, carry the numbers past a rectangular window high on the station wall where they are made visible. Each numeral is outlined by silvered disks of reflecting material, and floodlights play upon the figures to make them show up clearly at a distance. The movement of the belts is governed automatically from a control panel with an extremely accurate master clock, which in turn is constantly regulated from the observatory at Greenwich. The steel roller on which the hour numerals are shown is thirty-seven feet long and the blinds weigh about 15,000 pounds.
In Postsingular, a mad scientist creates a race of nants -- nanites -- that digest the planet and turn it into a computational simulation of Earth, called Vearth. However, an autistic child memorizes a long string of numbers that poisons the nants and causes them to reverse themselves (luckily, they're engaged in reversible computation) and put the planet back. That's the setup.