Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080216
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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The Sagan Appreciation Society (website currently under construction), is petitioning the USPS to get the greatest science exponent of all time on a stamp.
A big opportunity for citizen science this President’s Day weekend, as the 11th annual Great Backyard Bird Count kicks off.
Mixed feelings about the validity of this bit of citizen science, but a Woman has Conducted her own Aspartame Experiment on rats to show her family the dangers of diet sodas.
A new study reveals a map of our world’s oceans where every inch has been impacted by human beings.
One such way we are impacting our oceans is Bottom trawling, and the damage from this practice is clearly visible in Satellite Images.
Experts are scoffing at the Bush Administration’s Rationale of spending millions of dollars to shoot down a satellite that will, in the absolute worst case statistically-miniscule scenario, give a few hundred people skin and lung irritation.
Wine Makers of the world got together to discuss the threat climate change poses to their industry. Many are buying land in other climates to keep their brands from going extinct.
Do they or don’t they? Cell Phone Use Linked To a 50% Increased salivary gland Cancer Risk, keeping this in perspective, this means cell phone use increases your high-end risk of developing a tumor in the head from 0.003% per year to 0.0045% per year.
Lab Rats May Get a Reprieve Some Day, as machines become better at predicting toxicology.
Machines like this one, which Taste-tests Coffee like a professional.
And now a moment of science, as Wired magazine presents Striking Nanoscale Images from a scanning tunneling microscope, which can get down to imaging atoms.
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