Isn't the UV concern related to the lens of the eye which was replaced in this case, or is it also the cornea?

Years, nay decades, back I read about gamblers who wore rose-colored glasses to read marked cards. Tinted contacts were substituted in later years. Perhaps there are clear fluids that now have a 'color' to you! Expect to soon see spinoffs in CSI, The Fringe, Alphas, etc.

I'd like to add that downloaded lectures can be played at high speeds in video or audio on PCs if you can keep up.

I use Google Reader to gather data from any rss feed of interest and also download weekly about 60 podcasts from various sources each week using the Feedreader aggregator. I have to plug, in particular, podcasts (or videocasts) from This Week in Virology, This Week in Parasitism, and This Week in Microbiology, all available via a starting point of www.twiv.tv . (If you think Parasitism is not interesting, listen to TWIP 22.) The Naked Scientist based in Britain offers a nice weekly collection of news gathered from that area. The Australian Broadcasting Network at www.abc.net.au/radio/ offers podcasts about technology oriented towards that part of the world. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp and the BBC also offer podcasts which include new developments in all areas, but don't allow you to specialize in one area, such as medicine or computers. Futures in Biotech ( http://twit.tv/FIB ) has produced some terrific interviews in that area and Leo Laporte and his This Week in Technology does a few podcasts that offer more than his usual troubleshooting genre. http://www.podnutz.com/ is strictly computers, but three podcasts in particular are of interest as trendsetting. They are 274, 302 and 316. They deal with the development and growth of Lisa Hendrickson's career. She's a female computer troubleshooter who is rapidly building a large business that repairs computers remotely and worth watching and learning from as an example of how to grow a new business in the US. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute produces podcasts and videocasts about advancing technology Do a search for NIH Videocasts for presentations by this organization. Econtalk may not be strictly technical, but has outstanding interviews about developments and history that disproves that idea that economics are dry and boring. I've been saving a list of Best Podcasts for over a year and they number now about 90, but amount to over 2GB, so are not readily posted. I also have the addresses of podcasts that are plugged into the Feedreader aggregator that I'll try to add here in case that's of interest if the moderator agrees to include them. Several of these were worth noting, too, like NY Times Tech Talk and RadioLab: http://rss.conversationsnetwork.org/ppq/56641.xml http://podcast.seti.org/index.xml http://www.rtve.es/podcast/radio-5/asunto-del-dia-en-r5/SASUNTO.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/booksandideaspodcast http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/clickon/rss.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cyberspeak http://feeds.feedburner.com/diffusionradio http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510030 http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlobalChallenges http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/healthc/rss.xml http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/HHMI_Lectures.xml http://podcast.thelancet.com/laneur.xml http://www.materialstoday.com/rss/podcasts/ http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/techtalk.xml http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/oneplanet/rss.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/acs/scienceelements http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/scia/rss.xml http://www.sciencemag.org/rss/podcast.xml http://www.fundadvice.com/soundinvesting.rss?option=com_podcast&feed=RSS2.0&no_html=1 http://feeds.feedburner.com/twim http://feeds.feedburner.com/parasitism http://media.acponline.org/feeds/annals.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/booksandideaspodcast http://leoville.tv/podcasts/twit.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/microbeworld http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/ideas.xml http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/north.xml http://www.theworld.org/rss/tech.xml PRI the world, technology http://leoville.tv/podcasts/kfi.xml http://leoville.tv/podcasts/fib.xml http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml http://www.clinicalpodcast.com/xml/basic/conversations_in_medicine.xml http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/rss.xml http://leoville.tv/podcasts/leo.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/MedicallySpeakingPodcast http://podcast.thelancet.com/laneur.xml http://podcast.thelancet.com/lancet.xml http://podcast.thelancet.com/laninf.xml http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/rss.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/podnutz http://www.fundadvice.com/index2.php?option=com_podcast&feed=RSS2.0&no_html=1 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/mh/rss.xml http://feeds.datadoctors.com/feeds/RadioPodcast.xml http://www.theworld.org/feed/ PRI the world, gen, I think http://feeds2.feedburner.com/twivmp3 http://community.acs.org/journals/acbcct/cs/Portals/0/PodCasts/podcast_source.xml http://podcast.cell.com/cell.xml http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Distillations http://feeds.feedburner.com/medicinepod101 http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289 http://www.patientpower.info/patientpowerrsslive.asp http://feeds.feedburner.com/regenerativemedicinetoday http://feeds2.feedburner.com/sciencepodcasters http://feeds.twis.org/twis/science http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab http://feeds.feedburner.com/brainsciencepodcast http://feeds.nature.com/nature/podcast/neuropod http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510202

Here's a simple experiment to do in the summertime at any parking lot. Touch the hoods/trunks/roofs of white cars and black cars and feel the difference.

Vultures detect carrion using smell, so you need knowledge of wind patterns where they are circling to determine carrion location. This has been suggested for use in the US when searching for a missing person, who might still be alive. While it sounds feasible, there is an associated cost in resources, which are usually limited, unless ornithologists and meteorologists are readily available and have access to local data about wind conditions. Wind conditions close to the ground, say up to 1000 feet can be variable: you can't just look at which direction the clouds are moving. Then you need to triangulate vulture locations, probably by ground observers at two or three locations trained to use compasses and maps. (The fire observers in fire watch towers do this type of location work for fires, or used to, for the US Forest Service.)

I'm surprised at how little mention has been made of the internet. You can raise funds for research, study any subject no matter what your age or language, access more books from more places, collaborate widely, promote any idea or concept, buy and sell practically anything. I'm 70 and listen to some 50 podcasts each week that deal with research, economics, culture, computers, medicine, politics, a foreign language, entertainment and world affairs; have to use fast playback speeds to get thru so much material. Much of it really good stuff, too. Is there any way to look at the impact this has?

It would be useful in mapping crime scenes. What happens, though, if you are outdoors; say a traffic accident with lots of vehicles?

Tons of information, much of it also restricted but still useful, by searching for the key agent, and for migrastatin.

Do a search for "institute for regenerative medicine" and see how many of these now exist.

Are folks playing Farmville doing what we are right here, reading and posting these remarks? Has anyone benefited from this discussion other than the social interaction?

This sort of device would probably work well with solar farms that presently concentrate sunlight onto a boiler.

I listen to the following podcasts that cover technical subjects and are the best I've found. The Naked Scientists provide the best overall coverage in hour-long sessions. Leoville's Futures in Biotech is very good in this cutting-edge field, but offers a limited number of entries. Perhaps more donations would enable the producer to do more. Microbeworld offers one-minute bites. Some of the leoville material that covers his radio call-in program last 2 hrs. Except for the FIB, all of his stuff is electronics-related (computers--Mac and Windows --, computer security, cell phones, digital cameras, and home theater). Some casts involve panels and guests. I've not included several more he does relating to food and children. Time compression software or other enhanced playback options are helpful with it as well as the other items if your time is limited.The Lancet offers several categories of current medical info. Podnuts is a computer repair discussion. Ziepod on Vista Home Premium works well to download all new episodes once a week. http://leoville.tv/podcasts/twit.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/microbeworld http://www.theworld.org/rss/tech.xml http://leoville.tv/podcasts/kfi.xml http://leoville.tv/podcasts/fib.xml http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/rss.xml http://leoville.tv/podcasts/leo.xml http://podcast.thelancet.com/laneur.xml http://podcast.thelancet.com/lancet.xml http://podcast.thelancet.com/laninf.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/podnutz http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/mh/rss.xml