Bookmarks for May 29th

May 30, 2009

When I'm not blogging, I'm browsing. Here are sites and pages that I bookmarked on May 29th:

Breakthrough Technology Enables Edible TruTag to Prevent Counterfeit Medicine: A novel technology that can help prevent not only counterfeit medicine and other consumables, but can also be used in a wide range of often-counterfeit goods.
‘House of the Sun’ getting crowded?: The National Science Foundation's board of directors finally expected to decide whether to give the go-ahead by the end of this year to its proposed 143-foot-tall solar telescope near the summit of Haleakala.
Professors inject science into the spectacular art of GigaPan: Scientists from around the world are gathering in Pittsburgh today to discuss how GigaPan, a camera system invented at Carnegie Mellon University, makes research easier, more in-depth and a lot more artistic.
Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex': A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."
Fish Poisoning May Be Why Polynesians Left Paradise: Could ciguatera poisoning be behind the storied migrations of the Polynesian natives who colonized New Zealand, Easter Island and, possibly, Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries?
Hawaii company aims to feed the masses farmed tuna: The popularity of tuna is growing, but the heavy fishing of wild tuna to meet this demand is rapidly shrinking the global supply. Now a Hawaii company wants to build the world's first commercial bigeye tuna farm.