Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20080228

February 28th, 2008

Hey Everybody! The first 30,000 Pages of the Encyclopedia of Life are Online!!! But you can’t see them right now because the site is getting so much traffic it’s been crashed since yesterday. That doesn’t stop me from touching my nose to my monitor and clicking “Refresh” every few seconds.

Ohhhh… Ahhhh… Check out The Night Sky of the Future Slideshow, and see Earth’s night sky from its beginnings to the end of the Universe.

White people sure do some silly things, like consume Bottles of Water instead of just putting a glass under a faucet. (HT tgaw

That place I went to school, Virginia Tech, has a measly two women professors in Electrical Engineering, and is less than 10% Women in other sciences. HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME VPI!!! I am ashamed to have a degree from such a sausage party! You can see how your school compares here.

Interesting hypothesis pending further investigation, did Cannibalism Wipe Out the Neanderthals? Giving them a mad cow type of prion disease?

With 4,000 of them currently deployed on the ground in Iraq, and having logged 400,000 flight hours in 2006, should we start worrying about a Robot Arms Race?

BIGGEST Sea Reptile EVER

An autistic woman, who does not speak, and seems, on the surface, too weird for human communication, has posted an amazing video, explaining the reasons behind her actions speaking through a computer.

For today’s Moment of Science, a fantastic example of Consilience, bringing the humanities and sciences together into an awesome art exhibit. Check out this awesome online flash exhibit Design and the Elastic Mind, now showing at the MOMA

Design and the Elastic Mind

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by Clint February 28th, 2008 at 10:46 am
I liked the earth-sky-slideshow, but that autistic video was amazing!
by Clint February 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am