Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080227

Posted on 27th February 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera - Tags: , ,
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Butterfly fish
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  • Butterfly fish, a popular tropical fish, May Face Extinction, but The Great Beyond wonders, are they just too stupid to live?
  • The Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault is now online.
  • “My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.” has won the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest. Lisa Loeb is recording a song based on it.
  • Shop till you drop!!! Wards Natural Science, which specializes in homeschooling kits is having a clearance sale!
  • Cool Blog Alert! Scientists in the desert are practicing for living on Mars, and they’re blogging about it.
  • Humans don’t have them, but some flies have “parasperm,” infertile sperm cells whose sole purpose is keep fertile sperm alive.
  • What a tease. Lessig Won’t Run for Congress.
  • Turn the volume down on your computer, and then check out the visualization demonstrations at Cascade on Wheels, a project to help visualize automobile usage.
  • Hiccups are a leftover from when our ancestors were fish, it’s a signal from our brain stems trying to tell our gills to get working (from the book Your Inner Fish).
  • For today’s moment of science, check out this video of clouds streets, an intriguing natural phenomenon (HT Pink Tentacle):



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