Science Etcetera Moonday, 20080303

March 3rd, 2008

Ayers Rock Waters the Surrounding Desert

Science Illustrated featured and explained these incredible photos, but since ~~they’re~~ their website isn’t showing them, Popular Science has some amazing Earth From Space photos.

2008 is “Year of the Frog” and Saturday saw many leap-year celebrations at zoos trying to raise awareness of these endangered animals.

Award-winning Toxicologist Deborah Rice was dismissed from a panel on chemical safety for coming to conclusions; although, the Chemical Industry lobbyists who demanded her removal spun it as “bias.”

Many of these prediction come very close, many are way off, and one, that everyone will spell phonetically, makes me wonder why it doesn’t come about, check out Ladies Home Journal 1900s Prediction for 2000s

Researchers have discovered a gene that blocks HIV, preventing the virus from assembling within a cell and spreading to others, stopping it from becoming AIDS.

Could Sex Differences in Color Vision explain why women prefer pinks and violets more than men?

China May Scrap its One-Child Policy, leaving us to wonder how the country intends to support a population too large for it’s environment to support.

Today’s Moment of Science comes from a TED talks on Microsoft’s World-Wide Telescope: