Sunday Science Round Up Stardate 2454345.5

September 2nd, 2007

NCSB 2008

Registration is now open for the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference! I had a very enlightening time at last year’s conference, and plan on attending more of the social gatherings being hosted at this year’s event. Something to look forward to January 19th!

Not only has Google wowed users with Google Space, but now a cookie has been found that will put you in a flight simulator flying over the satelite-photo landscape (CTRL+ALT+A).

In Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, the Mayan priests are portrayed as using a solar eclipse to prove their influence over the gods. It turns out Chistopher Columbus used a lunar eclipse to scare Native Jamacains into giving him supplies (Hat tip to TGAW for the link).

Anyone who’s fallen asleep in front of a Television set and been plagued by dreams of Friends reruns knows this one’s a no-brainer: Electronics lead to “junk sleep” in teenagers

Not for the arachnophobic, this Spider Web Covers Acres of a national park.

Not convinced that books are obsolete? Check out this graphic illustration “If Wikipedia Were Printed.” Wikipedia comes up as the first result in so many of my Google searches, I’m starting to wonder why we even have an Internet anymore.

Two bits of good news coming out of China this week. Science Fiction Providing Chinese with Political Forum, where Chinese citizens can debate political subjects in theoretical worlds, which also give them optimism about the technological future. China has also established its First National Park (another TGAW hat tip). Go Chi-Coms!!!

Although their scientific methodology is questionable, it’s nice to see someone’s tackling the issue that has plagued science for so many decades, “How Many Licks to the Center of a Tootsie Pop?“

And one more bit of geek humor, battle of the nerd god hunks sitting on their desks