Science Etcetera JD 2454432

November 28th, 2007

BlogLines Plumber

My RSS aggregator, BlogLines is down for the night, so I’m limited to what news sources I can remember subscribing to:

Professor Walter Bender of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) says that politics are stifling the project, as “small thinking” in corporate and governmental bodies prevents them from investing in the project.

Google, the “Don’t Be Evil” paradigm company, will invest in solar and wind power. I love the quote from an investor, “This makes me worry about Google’s priorities,” which makes me worry about this investor’s clients since he doesn’t know that Green Funds are the one ray of sunshine in our current gray-skies economy.

I’m so glad there are people willing to do this, the Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy goes diving in city waters to learn about their ecological health. I wonder how they break through the East River’s hard candy coating to get to the water below?

It’s like a hydroelectric dam, but for wind. this kite funnels wind into a turbine. Neato!

A Human Guinea Pig for Neuroscience talks about how scientists temporarily knocked out and scrambled parts of her brain during studies.

The MRI photos I recently had taken look so insignificant compared to this new Ultra-Detailed CT Scanner