Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SuperSonic Ear $20; Wild Planet Toys; ages 5 and up The idea is for kids to use this groovy parabolic-dish gun and headset to listen in on sounds of nature--caterpillars munching, woodland creatures scuttling--they wouldn't normally be able to hear. Neat concept. There's potential for danger--like accidentally pointing the dish at speakers while big brother is playing Metallica. But used sensibly (on nature--Yeah, right!), it could be lots...
...William James Hall, Harvard gets its connection to the Internet. Your outgoing packets are sent via a microwave dish to MIT, where they hop onto NEARNet, Harvard's commercial link to the backbone of the Internet...
This came out while we were discussing the Cafe's profound understanding of breakfast. I had introduced that subject after Molly was kind enough to allow me a taste of what she'd ordered as a main course--a dish that I would associate with breakfast but the restaurant carries on the menu throughout the day as "Potatoes from Heaven...
...gerontologists, this was monumental stuff. If human tissue behaved in the body the same way it did in the dish, they felt, it meant that somewhere in the nanoviscera of each cell there was an actuarial hourglass that gave it only so much time to live and no more. If the clock could be found--and, more important, reset--both the cells and the larger corpus that gave rise to them might be made immortal. Of course, hypothesizing the existence of such a cellular timekeeper was one thing; finding it and manipulating it were something else again. In the years...
...Elizabeth Blackburn, then with the University of California, Berkeley, did just that. Working with a single-cell pond organism, they discovered a telomere-preserving enzyme they dubbed telomerase. Five years later, Gregg Morin at Yale University confirmed their work, identifying the same substance in cancer cells. In the Petri dish, the agent of eternal life had been found...