Science Etcetera Moonday, 2071224

December 24th, 2007

The FBI is preparing a Vast Database Of Biometrics, including irises, faces, and scars. Sounds useful. They will also keep fingerprints of employees for companies upon request. Sounds Big Brotherish.

China is teaching their Pandas how to Fight by housing them with police dogs, after animals killed the first Panda released into the wild. Go Super Science Ninja Pandas!!!

Maybe they could train them to protect the other animals too, as a rare tiger was found
Skinned in a Chinese Zoo. Sick.

A $10 million telescope turned into a parasail and smashed to pieces. A £1.5 million autonomous yellow submarine trapped under the Arctic ice. New Scientists has the best Doh! Technology Moments of 2007.

Let the countdown begin. The 100-Watt Incandescent Bulb will Disappear by 2012 thanks to the Energy Bill. A good step, but Compact Florescent Bulbs (CFLs) aren’t the end-all-be-all because disposing of them puts mercury into the environment.

In 2002 Dave Weiner bet against Martin Nisenholtz that Blogs would out-rank the New York Times on Google for the top news stories in 2007, and he won.

They distort, you comply. Fox News linked to Senator Inhofe’s linked to the blog post instead of to his supposed “consensus-busting report” disputing climate change.

I did not know that! Why you shouldn’t use WD-40 on your bike chain.

Mistletoe kills cancer tumors and other science facts for the holidays.

Very pretty, but at this stage it’s the software doing all the work and not the brain, but these EEG Biofeedback Paintings are pretty to look at, and hold promise of cooler things to come.