Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080125

January 25th, 2008

Spam Plants

Spam Plants
Image Courtesy of Alex Dragulescu

Spam-Generated Plants, Blog Bot-made graphic novels, Malwarez visualized as microbial life, and Algorithms of the Absurd are just some of the visually-stunning projects by Alex Dragulescu.

Carl Sagan’s passed away, David Attenborough’s on his way out, Richard Dawkins just pisses everybody off. Chris Mooney is right to ask, Where Are Science’s Ambassadors to the Rest of Society?

There’s a growing dissent of Scientists Opposed to NASA’s New Moon Mission. Been there, done that, is the main complaint, Let’s land on an asteroid instead, is the suggested alternative.

Damned if you do… Researchers Give Chimps Life-Threatening Colds, very life threatening, but the alternative is to abandon the animals to poachers.

Called the next to last step in producing man-made life, Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome.

Yeek! Yeek! Yeek! Former child actors turned geeks!

SCQ got a few LOL’s out of me with this bit, Cartoon Episodes About Science. Very brief and worth reading.

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Mayim Bialik starred in a failed series called “Molloy” — with a very young Jennifer Anniston. In a schoolgirl skirt.
I did not know that last time I read that list :)

Oh dude… Check it out:
http://www.stuffmagazine.com/cover_girls/girl.aspx?id=468
^^^^!!!!!!! WINNIE!!!

I’m a bit disappointed that you can’t find out what her math theorem IS, not even at her wikipage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_McKellar#College_and_mathematics_advocacy
by Clint January 25th, 2008 at 6:07 am
One of the references on the wikipedia page points to this blog post which DOES explain the math theorem:
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/math-doesnt-suck-and-the-chayes-mckellar-winn-theorem/

(I should probably add this link to my post as well)
by Eva January 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
T hanks!!
by Clint January 25th, 2008 at 1:32 pm