Links of the day- baby sloths, photosynthesis and self-assembling solar panels

First Link-of-the-day today is this to gallery of pictures of baby sloths from a wildlife resuce centre in Costa Rica: sloths don't generally rank highly on most people's lists of cute animals: these pictures may change your mind-

http://thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2010/08/the-daily-beast-august-29-2010.html

Today's second link is this article reporting research into solar panels/ photosynthesis: according to the link, scientists at MIT have created a synthetic process that imitates photosynthesis. By combining phospholipids and carbon nanotubes, they have been able to produce a "self-assembling solar panel": this is an over simplification, of course, the details are here-

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/09/scientists-disc.php

Cheering-up Sloth

Today I am departing from my periodic "cheering up bird" formula to direct you to this wonderful baby sloth picture. As always, this is more about the "awh" factor than scientific progress, but I think more than worthy of the detour...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#232s1A/www.flickr.com/photos/carootje/306448711//