Science Etcetera Moonday, 20071217

December 17th, 2007

The Bali Climate Change talks ended with the U.S. Agreeing to work on a new treaty over the next two years. So that’s one year of nothing happening, followed by one year with anyone but Bush.

IMB and Evergreen Energy Inc have created a greenhouse gas meter that will measure industry emissions and help regulate carbon credits.

Hooray for Nature! The science journal is making its genome papers available under a creative commons license.

Medical researchers from Osaka University Hospital have successfully repaired a cardiac patient’s heart with muscles from his thigh.

Science Cafes, where people get together over beer or coffee and talk science, are becoming increasingly popular.

Kav continues his insightful commentary on the £80m shortfall in the British Science and Technology Facilities Council’s budget, asking why the STFC lists Why is there a Universe? at the top of its Big Science questions to be addressed.

I stumbled across this wonderful collection of political cartoons ridiculing creationism online from Evolution: a journal of nature 1927-1938.