NextDraft: Cooking Up a Stem Cell Burger and Other Fascinating News on the Web
Stem Cells with a Side of Fries “Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” That’s what Winston Churchill said in 1932. It’s been more than fifty years but today, a few taste testers sat down to sample a hamburger created in the lab. The meat-like substance was created by scientists who placed the stem cells of a cow into a nutritional broth. Google’s Sergey Brin was the project’s backer, and the burger cost him a cool $325,000 (and he didn’t get fries with that). This marks an important step forward for lab meat, but the effort still pales in comparison to the invention of the tater tot. + More from the BBC on how to make a stem cell burger, and what one tastes like. How Smarter Spending Affects Happiness Can money buy you happiness? Of course it can. But there’s a catch. You have to make sure you’re spending the money on the right things. Here’s what you can learn from the science of smarter spending. The connection between money and happiness is unrelated to spending. It’s the throwing it up in the air and rolling around with it on the bed that makes one happy. + Are happiness and health directly related? A new study suggests that meaning is healthier than happiness. (This study was carried out by really unhappy people who feel they are doing incredibly important work) Red Sox Owner Buys Boston Globe John Henry, the principal owner of the Red Sox, just purchased the Boston Globe from the New York Times Co. And he paid less for the newspaper than he did for his first baseman. Two decades ago, the NYT Co paid $1 billion for the Globe. Henry just picked up the newspaper and its associated properties for $70 million. I’ve always wanted to have a column in a major American newspaper. Now I realize that if I just wait long
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