Things to learn things to wipe from your memory

English scientists claim to have discovered how tigers and other animals got their stripes (Touch Me).  It seems a 60 year old study done by researcher Alan Turing showed in his paper The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis that animal's stripes and spots are caused by the interaction of a pair of chemicals named "morphogens".  
Anyone want some lab meat (Touch Me).  Dutch scientists are using stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue that they hope will be able to grow lab hamburger meat by the end of the year.  Well, that is, if 2012 hasn't swallowed us whole by then.
Let's rebuild a boat (Touch Me).  Archaeologists in Egypt have begun the process of restoring a really old (they say 4500 year old) boat housed in the Pyramid complex.  This is one of two boats found in the area directly beside one of the pyramids.  Some say the boats were placed by the temples (not tombs) to give the dead a way to travel around in the afterlife.  Now, the boat, once completed, will bring lots of tourist eyes to see and continue the tradition of iffy historical data that we all have come to know and love. 
How about a fun little graph about prices and have they have increased since 2000 (Touch Me).  That will sure lift your spirits.  I really like the college one.  That makes complete sense.  Wink Wink.

Sometimes, I feel this way

links today courtesy of The London Telegraph, BBC News, The AP, and Business Insider