Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20080116

January 16th, 2008

Sanyo Solar Ark

Check out Sanyo’s Solar Ark, a 1,033-foot-wide solar-powered museum in central Japan (above is a panoramic view.)

A 12-pound rhesus monkey in North Carolina made a 200-pound robot in Japan walk using her brain. I’ve started stockpiling shotgun shells in anticipation of the impending invasion.

19 Bald Eagles have died and 50 more had to be rescued from gorging themselves on fish guts left in a truck outside a processing plant. They became covered in freezing slime, and the effort to save them could only be described as valiant.

Ira Flatow, who wouldn’t add me to his Facebook, interviews Michael Pollan author of the NYT article I can’t stop mentioning, summarized as Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants., about Pollan’s new book In Defense of Food, An Eater’s Manifesto, where he argues against the tradition of Nutritionalism.

Science Sensei, who shares my martial arts motif, but who also probably knows something about science, has a great video on Subliminal Political Messages:

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yea i’ve always thought 1 frame at 30fps was so inredibly easy to notice that i’d notice 1 frame at 60fps, but i’ve never been in a situation to verify that! :)
by Clint January 16th, 2008 at 1:10 pm