Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080122

Posted on 22nd January 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera - Tags: , ,

Astronaut Self-Portrait

Astronaut Self-Portrait
Image Courtesy of NASA

  • Wow, Somma’s Stochastic seems rinky-dink compared to this list of other laws in the vein of Murphy’s and Goodwin’s. I dig these as ways of short-cutting debate. (HT tgaw).
  • Human male ejaculate has approximately 21.45 megabytes of data transcribed in DNA. This and other fun DNA converted to data fact in the blog post, How Many Megabytes are in the Human Body?
  • In just 150 years Elephants have Evolved Smaller Tusks as a result of Poaching.
  • Plump or skinny? Facial hair or no? Tall or average? The Daily Mail reveals the secrets of physical attraction.
  • Time has an article on why we’re programmed to flirt, even subconsciously.
  • Sorry Jaguars, but we’re going to have to let you become endangered to keep out illegal immigrants.
  • AI Researchers have taught Ms. Pac-Man to Play Herself, by giving her just a few simple rules and letting her learn by playing.
  • Duuuuuude. Check out this video of Screen-Based Physics software:



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    1. i could have used that interactive whiteboard for my paper spaceship battle childhood fantasies! Draw the ships, watch ‘em duke it out!

      Comment by Clint — January 22, 2008 @ 1:21 pm

    2. If you have a tablet PC you can do the same kind of stuff demonstrated in the physics video:

      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56347faf-a639-4f3b-9b87-1487fd4b5a53&displaylang=en

      “Microsoft Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC”

      Some folks are trying to hack it to work with non-tablet PCs:

      http://blog.hypercubed.com/archives/2006/02/05/how-to-use-physics-illistrator-on-non-tablet-pc/

      I also found a very crude flash-based physics toy:

      http://www.enigmasand.com/games/nphys/

      And this is along similar lines and is quite cool:

      http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2006/09/16/teddy-freeform-3d-sketching/

      And finally: Crayon physics! I want this game!
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI

      Comment by doranchak — January 22, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

    3. Ooh, I found another one, and the software is available for download:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM

      Comment by doranchak — February 21, 2008 @ 7:35 am

    4. Yeah! I saw that on Boing Boing I’ve downloaded it and can’t wait to experiment… pending finding the time to do so. : )

      Comment by ideonexus — February 21, 2008 @ 7:57 pm

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