Science Etecetera Jupiter, 20080214

February 14th, 2008

Carl Sagan Valentine

Happy ~~Valentine’s~~Single’s Awareness Day. The day our corporate overlords pressure the shy and socially awkward to venture out of their meek shells to propose to their secret crushes. But don’t despair, get inspired with these Science Valentines!!!

Is he or she a “dream date?” More likely a social chameleon. Best to go with someone more socially awkward who will commit. LiveScience explains Why Perfect Dates Make Lousy Partners

Wired Magazine’s Sharon Weinberger describes what it was like to get hit with the Sonic “Puke” Ray, a non-lethal weapon being promoted in Israel.

Yesterday, I criticized Mayor Bloomberg for saying Global Warming could wipe out the human race, today a report by the British Government warns that Global Warming Effects Could Kill 10,000 in the UK by 2012.

Al Gore had two factual errors in An Inconvenient Truth Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist had 110. Bite me Dittoheads!

Came in under my radar, but Maths won at the Grammys. w00t!

What’s the most environmentally safe choice on the seafood menu? Text this number to find out.

A shirt filled with nanowires produces electricity for gadgets.

I was very surprised at some of the places that made the list, but if you’re looking for an environmentally-friendly place to live, browse America’s 50 Greenest Cities.

Gorillas photographed Mating Face to Face.

And now a moment of ~~science~~ psychedelia, check out this gallery of Interesting Knots. The site calls them “Symmetric Energy Pictures,” but that doesn’t mean anything as far I could determine. Correct me if I’m wrong. They look cool and could inspire some speculation into real scientific areas.

“Symmetric Energy Pictures”

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OMG I *cackled* out loud at the Carl Sagan card!! Too bad his autograph in my version of “Cosmos” is overshadowed by me writing my name in address next to it in 7-year-old handwriting.

I think I am going to have to blog those valentines.
by Clint February 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
You have an autographed copy of Cosmos??? Aaaaiiiieeeeee!!!!! You stud!
by ideonexus February 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hehehe… Believe me, it is the WORST.AUTOGRAPH.EVER. My 7-year-old mis-prioritizing of putting my name and address and phone number all over in high writing didn’t mesh well with him autographing that same page … oops. But yea, it’s cool to have.

Even cooler, it was autographed within 500 feet of my couch :)
by Clint February 14th, 2008 at 10:56 pm