Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080315
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Togian white-eye
Zosterops somadikartai
New bird species! The Zosterops somadikartai, or Togian white-eye. Yay!
A Moment of Silence please for Joseph Weizenbaum, the programmer who created Eliza the Rogerian Therapist chat bot, has passed away at 85.
The Human Proteinpedia is a wikipedia for proteins.
Dear President W. Thank you so much for stepping in to weaken the EPA’s ozone limits. For a second there, I was afraid someone was going to make an informed, well-researched policy decision, luckily you intervened just in time to make sure we don’t lose our precious precious smog.
Thanks also W for telling NASA to put a man on Mars, and then refusing to fund it, like you refused to fund No Child Left Behind. It’s true what they say, “Republicans argue that government doesn’t work, then they get elected and prove it.”
Zap! Rat brain cells produce electric fields as strong as 15 million volts per meter.
Looks like we’ll be adding Schnook Salmon to the list of tasty animals taken off our menus, as their numbers have dwindled to such a crisis point that U.S. Officials are expected to ban salmon fishing on the West Coast. Salmon is the tastiest sushi ever, expect prices to jump on this news.
Patrick Stübing and Susan Karolewski are siblings with four children. Because they grew up apart, their incest-aversion instinct did not kick-in when they met as adults; however, the German government has now taken three of their children away and put their father in jail. Dr. Martin Rundkvist critiques the irrationality of incest’s illegality.
Adding cynobacteria to Moon soil and a little water could unlock the nutrients to grow plants in it, which is good news for a 2020 Moon base.
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