Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080102
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Countries around the world yesterday had cause to cheer as tones of new materials entered their public domains, such as the works of H.P. Lovecraft (who’s horror monsters we at the comic shop believe will appear in the movie Cloverfield on 1-18-2008), astronomer Mary Proctor, mathematician Von Neumann, biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, and many others. In America, Canada, and the U.K. a whole heap of diddly-squat entered the public domain. In America, this is because the copyright holders of a certain animated mouse with a head shaped like an H2O molecule bought Congress in 1998.
H2O Mickey Mouse
Environmentalists are calling 2008 the Year of the Frog to raise awareness about the ongoing mass extinction of this very important amphibian by a fungus whose growth is being accelerated by global warming. Many Science Centers I’ve been to have started collecting frogs as a sort of Noah’s Ark. It shouldn’t need to come to that.
I’ve been a little too skeptical to blog this story so far, but, yes Virginia, there really are continents of floating garbage now choking our oceans to death.
Online garden shopping will outgrow catalogues in 2008. I know I can’t live without Logee’s!
I’ve seen kits for this, but it sounds like a pretty straightforward DIY project Grow your own Magic Crystal Tree.
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H2O Mickey Mouse |
