Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080212

February 12th, 2008

Mark your calendars! Friday! FRIDAY!! FRIDAY!!! April 18 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia there is now scheduled a Science Debate and the candidates have been invited, but Do they have the fortitude? Plus Debating the science debate.

Despite the Creation Museum’s assertion that humans lived with dinosaurs, the evidence doesn’t support it; however, we do now know that Modern Birds lived with the terrible lizards.

When educational institutions ban Wikipedia they are cutting their students off from the future of knowledge, David Parry argues that incorporating it in academia will lead to digital literacy.

Scientists Without Borders is a new initiative to Network Scientists. Obviously they haven’t heard of my Facebook friends list.

Why does It Rains Less on Weekends? Because there’s less particulate matter (ie. air pollution).

It’s obvious and yet more complicated than that, how Writing Separates History from Prehistory, and why it even came about.

They should have simply evolved breasts, but the amphibian caecilian feeds her young with her skin, and the process has been captured on film for the first time.

Neuroscience on Stamps… on a website that looks like it was scripted in 1998.

And now a moment of science. A solar wind stream hit Earth on February 10th, sparking beautiful bright auroras around the Arctic Circle (the below image is not one of those, but an old NASA composite) (HT Carolyn).

Composite NASA Aurora Pic

3 comments to “Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080212”

I hate how teachers are anti-wikipedia. Just because it can be edited by everyone, doesn’t mean that it is wrong. They have so many wiki stalkers on there that do nothing but check edits made to sites, and normally correct them within 30 minutes anyways. Totally safe and reliable.
by Nick Hamden February 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I, too, hate the anti-wikipedia backlash. Some people insist on top-down hierarchical dogma, I suppose.
by Clint February 12th, 2008 at 10:28 am
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by carolyn parry May 10th, 2008 at 6:51 am