Links for Stardate 2454359

September 16th, 2007

Updated to reflect correct Julian Date.

The biggest news this week, Google is offering $30 million to the company that successfully lands a remote-controlled robot on the Moon.

As if there wasn’t enough evidence linking CO₂ emissions to Global Warming, Fossilized Shells have provided even more. Also Melting Ice Opens Northwest Trade Passage.

Melting Ice Opens Northwest Trade Passage

I had to skip a some of these because they sounded too disturbing, but a few of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time, like obedience experiments and prison simulations, revealed some fascinating and troubling aspects of our society.

Check out the MRI Safety Video, for some dramatic demonstrations of what a powerful magnet can do.

Just great. Global Warming, Collapsing Fish Stocks, Peak Oil, an Unstable World Economy… And now the Standard Kilogram has lost 50 Micrograms, the equivalent of a fingerprint. No one knows why and it’s really vexing scientists who rely on precise measurements.

Apparently our ancestors were much slower than we are today because they Lacked Achilles Tendons to put the spring in their step.

Dwarf Planets don’t get to be planets, but Dwarf Galaxies get to be galaxies. What about ‘hobbit’ galaxies, which are mostly made up of dark matter?

Cool new term: Temporal Chauvinism