Pictures of small life can be very beautiful, even those of bacteria. Eshel Ben-Jacob uses petri dishes as his canvas. His site is full of interesting examples like the one below. If you’re interested in this form of art, be sure to visit Microbial Art as well for many more beautiful pictures in different styles.
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Surfing the web I found the following amazing article: mind readers. It describes scientific research that will ultimately make it possible to decode neural activity, or in other words view what someone is seeing!
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A guy named Roy Prol made this interesting video of what Earth would look like if it had rings like Saturn. Cool idea and a pretty neat execution too.
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The spiritual father of Spore, Willl Wright, is celebrating his 50th birthday tomorrow. Please join me in wishing him a marvelous day and many more years to implement wacky ideas. 
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Remember the HIFI instrument that was broken in the Herschel space camera? They succesfully switched over to the spare instrument according to this news. The infrared spectrometer will chart the amount of carbon and water in these gas clouds, which is expected to shed new light on the birth and early development of stars and planets.
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Tomorrow submission opens for a competition to use games to create an educational adventure in either Spore Galactic Adventures or LittleBigPlanet. The challenge is called Game Changers and is a HASTAC initiative. Real money is involved: the prices range $5.000 - $50.000; judging will be done by a panel drawn from the LittleBigPlanet and Spore communities.
This time all the worlds citizens aged 18+ can enter. Read all about it here.
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According to ComputerandVideoGames EA is working on a ‘major’ MMO, by word of EA boss John Riccitiello. They aim for a release in 2011. CVG names Spore as one of the possible candidates. It has been awfully quiet around Maxis lately, I think they will be very careful not to make the same mistakes and have too much hype going prematurely. But it could very well be something else entirely. I guess time will tell…
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Archnofobiacs beware, this might not be a post for you!
For all others, feast yous eyes on some very beautiful close-up photos. Thomas Shanan has a Flickr page full of very colourful portraits of the jumping spiders found in Oklahoma.
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Remember the announcement of Civ Network last year? Well, the gamesite Gamers with Jobs recently interviewed Sid Meier about it. Amongst other items they discuss the future of social network gaming and in particular Civ Network (which Firaxis has already announced for FaceBook this year).
It sounds really promising, I must say. They aim to make the game so that you can play long games in short bursts, or long ones, whatever suits you best.
You can download the podcast here. Visit Gamers With Jobs if you wish to read/leave a comment.
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If you’re a DrPepper drinker and located in the States you can get new downloadable content for Spore (PC version). Read the rules here.
The part set includes 14 new mech styled parts to be added in the creature editor.
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