Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20080102

January 3rd, 2008

Take a moment to look up in the sky tonight for the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower.

To quoth The Graduate: “I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening?” Implants. That’s an interesting bit of futurist speculation from the guy who designed Bladerunner and Tron.

The OLPC Foundation is facing a $20 Million Patent Suit over their multi-lingual keyboard. I’m not worried since the OLPC keyboard is too small for anyone with hands larger than a 12-year-old’s to use anyway.

The world’s Helium supplies are running out, meaning bad news for scientific research.

The genes responsible for an hereditary form of colon cancer might be traceable to a married couple who moved to America around 1630. Damn immigrants!!!

The CBC Podcast How to Think About Science sounds absolutely fascinating. Too bad I love my computer too much to infect it with Real Audio’s crap Software.

A scientists is researching the incorporation of Salmon Sperm to Intensify the Properties of LEDs.

Finally, ABC cards for Nerd Babies.

Science ABCs

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RealAudio is barely an infection.. You remove the startup bullshit, and it’s only there when you need it. Taking up 0% of your resources at all other times. You might also want to try MediaPlayerClassic (aka RealAlternative) — it handles video, so it would probably handle audio. (I don’t have RealPlayer installed — yet — but would if I needed it… Fortunately MediaPlayerClassic only fails if RealVideo upgrades their codec, which is very infrequent these days.)
by Clint January 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am