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Boffins at Maastricht University, Netherlands have managed to grow synthetic beef from the stem cells of a slaughtered cow. But how does it taste?

The world will find out next Monday, when the first hamburger made from the man-made meat is cooked and served at an unnamed “exclusive west London venue,” as reported by The Independent on Sunday.

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In the future, however, you might be able to develop a training plan that has nothing to do with external edicts, generalized principles, or even trial and error. Instead, you’d train according to your own genetic athletic profile — an array of genes that determine what kind of exercise, done for how long and how often, your body will best respond to.

That’s only one of the tantalizing suggestions that David Epstein, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, offers up in his new book The Sports Gene (Penguin). In a wide-ranging exploration of the links between genetics and athleticism — many of which are still being unraveled by scientists around the world — Epstein offers a fascinating look at how genetic research is already transforming sports science. Along the way, he digs into controversial questions about gender and race, examines the latest in genetic testing that purports to spot athletic traits, and unravels how some of the world’s best athletes — from Usain Bolt to Michael Jordan — attained the pinnacle of sporting success.

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GSU is 38 percent white, 35 percent black, 12 percent Asian and 7 percent Latino.

Sharp hails from Birmingham, Alabama, and says that the White Student Union is happy to work with the Black Student Alliance on issues of common importance. “If we are already minorities on campus and are soon to be minorities in this country why wouldn’t we have the right to advocate for ourselves and have a club just like every other minority?” asked Sharp. “Why is it when a white person says he is proud to be white he’s shunned as a racist?

Because that’s the Narrative. Go against the Narrative and they’ll crush you like a bug.

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When the Bank of America Tower opened in 2010, the press praised it as one of the world’s “most environmentally responsible high-rise office building[s].” It wasn’t just the waterless urinals, daylight dimming controls, and rainwater harvesting. And it wasn’t only the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification—the first ever for a skyscraper—and the $947,583 in incentives from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. It also had as a tenant the environmental movement’s biggest celebrity. The Bank of America Tower had Al Gore.

The former vice president wanted an office for his company, Generation Investment Management, that “represents the kind of innovation the firm is trying to advance,” his real-estate agent said at the time. The Bank of America Tower, a billion-dollar, 55-story crystal skyscraper on the northwest corner of Manhattan’s Bryant Park, seemed to fit the bill. It would be “the most sustainable in the country,” according to its developer Douglas Durst. At the Tower’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, Gore powwowed with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and praised the building as a model for fighting climate change. “I applaud the leadership of the mayor and all of those who helped make this possible,” he said.

Gore’s applause, however, was premature. According to data released by New York City last fall, the Bank of America Tower produces more greenhouse gases and uses more energy per square foot than any comparably sized office building in Manhattan. It uses more than twice as much energy per square foot as the 80-year-old Empire State Building. It also performs worse than the Goldman Sachs headquarters, maybe the most similar building in New York—and one with a lower LEED rating. It’s not just an embarrassment; it symbolizes a flaw at the heart of the effort to combat climate change.

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From Cochise to Kang, a towering talent.

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 CNN reports that dozens of CIA agents were on the ground there — and that they’re being pressured to keep quiet. Why?

As Nixon learned to his sorrow, and as many have had their noses rubbed in it since, it’s not the original situation but the coverup that will get you.

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Those guys you see pumping iron? MUTANTS!

AccuVein

Senseonics

SanDisk Connect: Pocketable, Wireless Storage

Building a Keyboard From Scratch

Textkit

Hovercraft Golf Cart

The Survival Capsule

S-F Door Decals

iPad Musical Shower Curtain. I am not making this up.

Memo Mug

Cornucopia, the Food Printer

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Should that be what you want to do, of course.

The mercury-in-glass thermometer has served us well for the past 270 years, but sometimes you need something smaller — say to find the temperature inside a single living cell. Researchers at Harvard have discovered a new technique using lasers and diamond nanocrystals to measure temperatures of microscopic structures, recording temperature fluctuations as small as 0.05 Kelvin (0.09ºF) in size.

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Looks to me like a trend.

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Nothing teaches critical thinking and reinforces math skills like race baiting, right? If Mary, who is white, has five apples and John, who is not white, has two apples, how many of Mary’s apples is John entitled to take?

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Occupational licensing rules allow trade schools in some states to force students to attend them, enabling the schools to charge students lots of tuition for training that is not worth remotely what it costs. At Slate, columnist Matthew Yglesias writes that “beauty schools are ripping off their students. Terrible licensing rules deserve some of the blame.”

Economists call this ‘rent-seeking’ and it depends on special interests using the power of government to force people to do it their way. And yet people like Yglesias are always first in line when it comes to demanding more regulatory power for government. Sometimes the term ‘clueless’ is wholly inadequate….

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Based on the stories we cover at College Insurrection, bathroom use has clearly become the new civil rights battleground.

Hey, it’s not as if they’re out catching criminals or something.

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Only in America can white people organize an event intended to mock poor Southern whites, have black people crying that it’s racist against blacks, and then have white people apologizing to blacks about it.