Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080226

February 26th, 2008

Men’s Viking Fashion
Photo by Annika Larsson

Vikings did not dress the way we thought. They dressed much more flamboyant with lots of color.

National Geographic has a terrific article that extensively covers particle physics, the massive CERN Hadron smasher, and the search for the Higg’s, or “God Particle.”

The Ulysses probe will soon freeze to death after 17 years of service observing the Sun from all angles.

Discover has 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Relativity, like the fact that Einstein and his wife got schnookered after he completed the theory.

The Eruption of Thera wiped out a dominant Mediterranean civilization, and is probably behind the stories of Noah’s Arc and Atlantis.

The Lifestraw removes typhoid, cholera, and other microorganisms as you suck water through it.

Calling all Citizen Scientists! Project BudBurst needs your help cultivating plants and observing when they bloom in spring to help understand Climate Change.

Very dramatic and awe-inducing Photos of a Storm Rolling In.

Two-year-olds throwing temper tantrums are just getting in touch with their inner Neanderthal, so it’s best to control them with short sentences and simple words.

10 teams have Entered Google’s X Prize to Land on Moon. Go Teams!!!

A moment of copyrighted science, so no preview photo, but check out the Bassett Collection of Human Dissections. Not for the faint of heart.

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Re: Project BudBurst
I read an article in the Smithsonian Magazine a while back about how Henry Thoreau meticulously documented the first flowers he saw on his daily walks. His observations and charts are now a resource to scientists studying climate change:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/walden.html
by Vicky February 26th, 2008 at 10:32 am