Also from WIRED: Biology Enters Fourth Dimension

A new microscope that lets scientists peer deeper into living organisms than ever before has been developed by researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. [...] The technology is called Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy, or SPIM, and it allows scientists, for the first time, to study relatively large (2 to 3 millimeter) live organisms from many different angles, under real conditions and with minimal disruption to the specimen.

A paper detailing the new device will appear in the journal Science Friday.

SPIM recently allowed scientists to observe developmental changes within embryos of fruit flies and observe the beating heart of a living Medaka fish, providing biologists with some remarkable images and movies.

Sweet.

More info on WIRED's website: Let the Web Games Begin.

This bothers me. A LOT. Most of my friends aren't bothered by it at all - they neither follow the Olympics nor particularly care about seeing the WHOLE show of an event, rather than just the portion the Americans are in. But that's exactly what has happened with U.S. coverage of the last several Olympics. I'd get to only see bits and pieces of events - the bits and pieces that Americans were in - and find the camera cut away to some other event and American was in, when Indian, Pakistani, Finnish or whatever country was up next. It was frustrating in the extreme. I love seeing world cultures together - and U.S. coverage thwarted me at every turn.

I was really looking forward to being able to catch a few events through the Internet, through streaming video, only to find out that a behemoth of a corporation has the power to shut off my access to such information, because they want to make as much money as possible by advertising out the wazzoo around fragmented coverage.

Believe me, I'll be one of those looking for a way around to coverage online that's complete. I'm sick and tired of the stupid ads and the bad coverage.

Sad news. Julia Child, the grand lady of cooking has died at age 91.

Hot cross bunny's clubhouse blaze

Super ant colony hits Australia

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