Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080213

February 13th, 2008

And the best Darwin Day presentation goes to Rocketboom for their Delightful Explanation of Whale Evolution (video).

Science has lost one of it’s ambassadors, Robert Jastrow, Who Made Space Understandable, Dies at 82.

Awwww… Check out the Tree-Bound Pterodactyl, it’s a cute little bugger.

Seed Science Bloggers are calling for Jim Watson, one of the discoverers of the DNA double helix who is also a sexist and racist, to step down from the Seed Media Board (See also here,here, and here).

Bee-dee-bee-dee-beep! Researchers are field-testing on Earth a robot destined for Jupiter’s Moon Europa, where it will explore the liquid water beneath the ice.

Handwriting has gone the way of clay tables and chiseling text on stones, argues Anne Trubek, so let’s Stop Teaching it.

And now a moment of Science. Check out the online exhibit Bodies of Knowledge, which explores the way different cultures throughout history have viewed the body.