On this repeat of an early, pre-RPN episode of thesniffer: Back in July '05, news stories started emerging that researchers had been able to resuscitate dogs that had been clinically dead for three hours. Could we all be living out scenes from "Sleeper" soon? Cathi wonders about the political fallout.... Plus, Cathi tips us off to the latest fashion trend (well, last summer anyway) black diamonds and Goth jewelry (and you know what, she was right!)

An overview of the research agenda of the center that did the experiments:

http://www.safar.pitt.edu/content/news/2005/news/statement.htm

MIT's "Technology Review" columnist on the 'zombie dogs' project:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Jason_Pontin/wtr_14975,291,p1.html

Anyone know what the status of the project is now, 6 months on?