links for 2007-08-27

• Neuroethics – Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) – Stanford University School of Medicine
  (tags: neuroscience ethics podcast philosophy law society)
• Video Demonstration: Make an emergency light source from a pencil – Lifehacker
  (tags: amusements geekery)
• Who will see the total lunar eclipse of August 27-28? » Radio Shows | Earth & Sky
  Austin, Texas resides in the Central Time Zone. Subtracting 5 hours from Universal Time places the total phase of the eclipse at 4:52 to 6:22 a.m. CDT.
  (tags: astronomy)
• Weekend Stubble: In Search of the World’s Most Boring Book Title
  (tags: books amusements)
• Observer | If you haven’t read these by Christmas …
  From Fidel Castro to Germaine Greer, Philip Roth to Alice Sebold, The Observer’s literary team pick this autumn’s top 10 must-reads
  (tags: books reviews)
• We’re definitely not in Kansas any more, Toto | News | Guardian Unlimited Film
  Hollywood plans dark remake of the Wizard of Oz, with Dorothy ‘more like Ripley in Alien’.
  (tags: amusements kansas movies)
• Ancient diamonds are oldest parts of Earth’s crust | Science | The Guardian
  A clutch of ancient diamonds plucked from the hills of Western Australia (WA) have been identified as the oldest remnants of the Earth’s crust ever recovered.
  (tags: geology australia)
• Hope rises for off-the-shelf heart repair kit | Science | The Guardian
  An experimental stem cell treatment that has proved successful in rats could lead to an off-the-shelf heart repair therapy for heart attack patients.
  (tags: genetics health medicine research)
• Kansans: Don’t Move Gitmo To Our State – Politics on The Huffington Post
  (tags: kansas usa politics war law)