Year: 2001
Angelus Novus, a painting by Paul Klee, and the famous Walter Benjamin remark it inspired (which is paraphrased nicely by Laurie Anderson in her song “Hansel and Gretel”).
Cloning humans ‘easier’ than animals (BBC News, via Dave Pulver on the TranshumanSpace mailing list)
Laws of Physics subject to change? (found by a friend in Haaretz, originally from the NY Times).