I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I’m interested…
Lab grown meat: the facts and figures.
The Guardian has an interesting interview with Dr Mark Post, head of physiology at Maastricht University, who made headlines this week announcing that he hopes celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal will cook the first lab-grown hamburger this October, for another celebrity taster.
- “Meat demand is going to double in the next 40 years and right now we are using 70% of all our agricultural capacity to grow meat through livestock,” Post said.
- The first burger will be produced at a cost of £200,000.
- The team is focusing on cow meat first because they are the least efficient animal at converting the food they eat into food for humans, with an efficiency rate of 15%.
- The technique uses only a tiny sample from cow muscle tissue, and would allow a single cow to produce up to 100,000,000 burgers, up from the current number of just 100.
- The current meat samples measure 3cm long, 1.5cm wide and 0.5mm thick. They will need 3000 pieces to make the first burger, but hope to use it as a proof of concept to drive further investment and development.
The team says the method could be applied to any type of meat; “We could make panda meat, I’m sure we could,” Post said.
Shortly after this is implemented cows will become an endangered species.
Video of the day: Mario Bros. in a box.
It’s all powered by servos, some open source code and a little device named the Teagueduino.
Oh, and some popsicle sticks, painters tape and a soda straw.
Developed by the folks at Teague Labs, the Teagueduino is an open source electronic board that “allows you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code, while teaching you the ropes of programming and embedded development.”
I just witnessed something so awesome on the 225 bus. This beautiful, courageous woman was talking on the phone in Tanzanian at a completely reasonable volume, when a filthy bogan man leaned over her shoulder in the most intimidating way possible and hissed “in Australia we fuckin’ speak English”. She didn’t even flinch, looked at him all I-beg-your-pardon-like and said what I can only assume meant “hold on” into the phone. She then stood up, turned around and yelled at the top of her lungs “fuck you, you stupid idiot. You are so stupid. I speak in my home language to my parents in Africa and I have to hear you swear at me. I never have done nothing to you. You are a stupid fucker and you can fuck off.”
I couldn’t help but yell “yeah you fucker” and give her the thumbs up.
Then, a small, timid looking Asian woman sitting across from the action piped up with “we can speak what ever language we like. Shut up you idiot.”
The bogan pressed the button and got off at the next stop.
I’m starting a new blog called fuckyeahbitchesonbuses. I’m so happy.
