Mobs of nothing If you've seen/heard of a group of people doing something specific such as clapping at nobody or buying carpets in large groups (things you may at least called odd), you've just reached the Mob Project. An e-mail-driven experiment that seems to vindicate absurd and surprise. New research shows that the brain's necessary rewiring for learning, can be significantly enhanced by drugs. Hopes rise after cells from human embryos were used to make paralyzed rats walk again. Building organs from scratches? Not quite, but read on nanotech´s new applications in the med-area. And also, new findings regarding a vital chromosome. Astronomers have found a planetary system pretty similar to ours. Check it out! And researchers hit the key regarding the elusive dark matter. Get to know what they've found. > Showbiz News: The new generation of files-sharing sites plays hide and seek with RIAA.		July 10th, Thursday, 2003, ip nº47 Hoping too much of too little? Academia tunes in Here's an interesting article from The New Yorker on how creativeness in music is perceived and understood, and on nowadays' compulsive and theatrical taste for its academic dissection. What's remarkable about the article -through the exposure of the academism phenomena- is that it helps us notice that perhaps contemporary art and artists receive more praise for the complexity of their art achievements than they even intended. The article also shows how sometimes modelling the whimsical ways of creativity can be particularly hard because you may have to be willing to acknowledge certain random factors -that make artists look like plain servants of art. Link: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/?030714crmu_music And talking about overanalysing art pieces, and idolizing the role of art figures, check out these two pieces on how a Nobel poet praises Eminem's lyrical style, and on Marilyn Manson being considered "the only true artist these days". Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_47_3.html Link: http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/manson_marilyn/news_feature_060603/ When I grow up I'll be creative Rejected in school, these unlikely luminaries found success The next article talks about the current issue of people who don't quite find the space or the challenge to develop their inner creativity in contemporary culture's proposed places. The article focuses on those people who left high school to find their way in the art world (making a reference to what is commonly defined as creativity: it's used in the artistic sense only). Nevertheless, there's a refreshing resurgent cultural interest in the non-academic personal resources and inventiveness, which denotes the lack of tools and particularly of vision of conventional institutions. Link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/129809_artists08.html Appeared in The Mail and Globe (Canada).		Weblogs - updated online journal- plan to take over politics and the workplace. Privacy Issues A new controversial scan system for airport screening is making travelers feel, well, almost naked. Learn all about the traces you leave behind after creating documents. Britain authorities have decided that people over the age of 16 will have to buy an identity card. Read it next. Go to privacy concerns section, clicking here. Cultural Ads Marriage for everybody, on me! It seems transsexuals may get their chance to marry too. To read more on this subject go here. Thousands of couples rely on online divorce nowadays, an increasingly usual and practical phenomena - a reasonable step given the ranting divorce rates after the first three years of marriage? Women often minimize their sexual experience, a new study suggests. And a growing number of the over-60 are online and using the Internet on a regular basis.