Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Finances Vat-grown Beef

Sergey Brin, the billionaire Google co-founder, has invested €250,000 ($330,000) to develop synthetic beef, and it won’t be long before it’s ready for its very first taste test, reports the Guardian’s Charles Arthur.

Brin, who turns 40 later this month, has a long track record of supporting projects that strike most people as fringe science if not actual science fiction, but he’s also had plenty of success. Aside from the Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s impressive and hugely popular ability to organize human knowledge, Brin has been involved in everything from electric cars (now a reality...