Linkage

• TED India site here. I am sure they will have a great set of videos soon (as usual).
• Droolworthy pictures of NASA's new Ares 1-X test vehicle here.
• Results of mashing time travel and quantum computing here.
• Toyota creates new plant species to offset the CO2 created by Prius assembly. How cool (or bizarre - depending on your point of view) is that...
• Essay on our declining Tower of Babel. 100 years from now, about 6000 languages in use today will reduce to 600.
• How Goldman Sachs left foreign investors holding the subprime bag. The third in a series of investigative articles about that firm by McClatchy.