Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080126

January 26th, 2008

Lunchbox Laboratory

If I had the Lunchbox laboratory as a kid, I would’ve had a much happier childhood. This bike would kick Pee-Wee Herman’s bike’s rear tire.

Maybe it really is something to do with the Sun, if Global Warming is making Giant storms erupt on Jupiter… Psych!!! It’s internally generated heat. Dittoheads can suck it, no science for you.

The American Geophysical Union has modified its position on climate change to take a much stronger position of support for Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory. Sorry Dittoheads, still no science for you.

Remember that stuff about there being more Antarctic ice? It wasn’t exactly true. Apparently the sea ice at the ocean is vanishing at a pace to match Greenland’s ice loss, raising the global sea level by 0.3 mm a year in 1996 to 0.5 mm a year in 2006.

Brazil is sending in the troops to save the rainforest.

Have humans created a new geological age? Hmmm… Changing the environment, acidifying the oceans, and creating a great big blank spot in the fossil record? Why yes. Yes we are.

Speaking of the fossil record, toe-bones reveal people started wearing shoes 40,000 years ago.

More open-source science of the media kind, the National Museum of Public Health photo archives on Flickr.

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Well the bike is nice, but I don’t see what it has to do with the lab. It’s cool that it has a fire extinguisher. I guess it goes pretty fast!

-BMF
by BMF January 26th, 2008 at 12:27 pm