Science Etcetera Marsday, 20071218

December 18th, 2007

3C321: Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy

The super-massive black hole at the center of the galaxy in the bottom left is firing a jet of radiation at the galaxy in the upper right, possibly frying the atmospheres of any planets located there.

Yet another reason to go free range: Poultry Workers are 32 Times more likely to be Carrying Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli

They check in but they don’t check out, vacuuming fleas kills them, apparently from instantaneous dehydration.

Duuuuude… Popular Science has the dirt on the E-ELT, the World’s Biggest Telescope, intended for finding exoplanets.

Salon has a good review of the Aerogarden. Do you need one? Short answer, no, grow your own herbs more cheaply in dirt or buy them at the local market.

Indonesia’s “Lost World” keeps turning up the hits as scientists discover a species of Giant rat and tiny possum there.

Did the forestry department of China’s Shaanxi province photoshop the sighting of a South China Tiger to con charitable souls into sending them funding?

Astronomers have lost track of the second comet the Epoxi mission was intended for, so they have diverted the space probe to a third comet.

A teacher’s youtube video on Global Warming has become a runaway hit.