Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080305

March 5th, 2008

A moment of silence please for Gary Gygax, Dead at 69, inventor of Dungeons & Dragons, which I played during lunch at school and on Saturdays with my friends, and it was a very uncool thing to do back then, exercising your brain and imagination, but is now mainstream. I and my 30th level Drow Thief, Perin Dragonsbane, thank you for all the adventures Gary.

Avalanche on Mars

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured live footage of Avalanches on North Polar Scarps of Mars. Also check out the Earth and Moon Photographed from Mars just to make you feel puny.

A hard, candy-coating that melts when the virus gets inside you Makes Flu Worse in Winter.

LOL! An NIH Letter of Rejection to Dr. Phil (Satire Alert!).

(Should be a Satire Alert!, but isn’t) Anthropogenic Global Warming Skeptic, John Coleman, suggests people (other than him) sue AGW Scientists for doing all that research that scares people and stuff. Put your money where your mouth is and sue them yourself Coleman. Put up or shut up you pansy! Thpppt!!!

After realizing they didn’t actually win in Florida, Creationists have now introduced legislation to let teachers educate kids about unicorns, fairies, and jesus in Biology classes.

What Candidate do you really like. This Implicit Association Test will help you find out. I can’t vouch for this test in particular, but previous IAT’s I’ve taken revealed some amazing biases in my thinking. This one indicates I have a secret crush on Hillary. I’m skeptical.

Take a 40 Second Moment of Science to learn about how Shockwaves create Traffic jams: