Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20071220

December 20th, 2007

A Single Tin of Paint Can Pollute Millions of Litres of Water

A Single Tin of Paint Can Pollute
Millions of Litres of Water

One can of paint can pollute an entire river, illustrated in the above WWF Anti-Paint-Dumping Ads.

Bite me “Abstinence Only” lobby. Sex Education of any kind delays the onset of sexual behavior in teens.

Looks more like a rat to me, but a Deer-like fossil fills an important missing link in whale evolution.

Janet D. Stemwedel ponders the ethics of performance enhancing drugs in academia.

Squirrels chew up shed snake skins and rub the scent over themselves to ward off predators.

71 Year-Old Physics Professor’s MIT Open Academia’s videos are a YouTube Hit.

More proof humans aren’t as unique as we like to think, Monkeys Can Perform Mental Addition

There’s an updated version of the classic YouTube video Shift Happens online:

Before we moved in, our houses’s washing machine simply dumped into the back yard, and thus the creek. It probably did this from 1941-1999! We made them fix it as part of selling it to us… (PVC pipe goes OUTSIDE the house, BACK INTO the kitchen, into normal sewage).
by Clint December 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pm