He is one of many symbols of the mystic Christ, the God made man. Though the son of Father and Mother, he is identical with the Father. Adonis is identified with both Osiris and Horus; with the Semitic Thammuz in Ezekiel, Athamaz, Tamaz, and 'Adam Qadmon (SD 2:43-4); with the Indian Aditi; and the Hebrew Adon or 'Adonai. Adonis is spoken of as both a lunar and solar god, since what is solar from one point of view may be lunar from another -- for instance, he may represent the sun in a lunar system. Adonis is connected with the solar year, as shown in the allegory of his six-months alternation.

• Engineers develop new way to fuse cells

  MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. The new technique should make it much easier for scientists to study what happens when two cells are combined. For example, fusing an adult cell and an embryonic stem cell allows researchers to study the genetic reprogramming that occurs in such hybrids. (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news150297594.html)

• Spinning Silk into Sensors

  Tufts University researchers have developed a simple process that turns silk cocoons into nanoscale optical devices with biological applications such as oxygen and tumor sensors. (Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21818/)

• Multiple tiny earthquakes rattle Yellowstone. Could the big one be far behind?

  There are rumblings the big one could be imminent in the wake of a series of 30-plus mini-earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park over the past few days. The Park is long overdue for a monster eruption that could leave as much as half the U.S. under a blanket of ash, but the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory's volcano alert level remains normal. (Source: http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=multiple-tiny-earthquakes-rattle-ye-2008-12-30)

• Kamen response to crisis: Lunacy

  Nearly 1,700 student teams from the United States and 10 foreign countries will have six weeks at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition to create robots to compete in Lunacy, a high-intensity game that will be played on a low-friction field designed to simulate the moon's gravity -- inventor Dean Kamen's idea for solving the world's problems. (Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28488606/)

• Invention: Software research assistant

  Ari Rappaport at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel has written a computer program that analyzes a section of text and then searches the Internet for relevant background information, generating an annotated version of the text, with links to improve a reader's ability to understand the text. (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16346-invention-software-research-assistant.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news)

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