August 22, 2008 (Friday)
- Scientists find appetite control neurons (POMC) in the brain degenerate over time because of free radicals; explaining why people overeat as they age. (EurekAlert)
- NASA destroys a prototype rocket made by Alliant Techsystems when it veered off course. (AP)
- The first Vertical farms start to be built
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)