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Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080322

March 22nd, 2008
  • Irony can be so ironic. Or is this hypocrisy? Evolutionist blogger PZ Meyers was banned from seeing the creationist film Expelled, but they accidentally let his guest, Richard Dawkins in. I’m sure hilarity ensued.
    • Gamma Ray Burst

    Gamma Ray Burst
  • A gamma ray burst seven billion light years away is just barely visible to the naked eye.
  • The liberal Salon.com has an article up on how to hack the conservative Wall Street Journal’s articles so you can see them for free. This is the kind of divisive politics I wholly support.
    • FSM on Courthouse Lawn

    FSM on Courthouse Lawn
  • Christians wanting the 10 Commandments displayed on public property, must allow the Flying Spaghetti Monster a place there too.
  • A new six million-year-old fossil from the species Orrorin tugenensis shows that humans started walking upright earlier than thought.
  • Researchers have found the gene to knock out in order to grow less carcinogenic tobacco.
  • The Boskops was a group of humans who lived in Africa 30,000 to 10,000 years ago that had brains 30 percent larger than our own.
  • Disaster has been averted. The boomerang thrown in space came back.
  • The tuatara has been around on Earth for 200 million years, making it a living fossil. It is also the world’s fastest evolving animal.
    • Tuatara

    Tuatara
    Photo by PhillipC.
  • The supercontinent Gondawana broke apart under the strain of its own weight.
  • Spring is coming an average of eight hours earlier every year.
  • Cool periodic table rings.
  • Today’s Moment of Science cross-filed Under Aviation Science and Weeeeeeee!!!!



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    2 comments to “Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080322”

    1. Good news day today.

           by Clint March 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    2. Amazing plane/copter there.

      Tuatara seemed fairly interesting. The article stated the reptile has relatively stayed unchanged (which is ironic for it to be the fastest evolving). One may think nature just got it right, but considering they are only found in New Zealand…I’m wondering if isolation is what allowed it to survive so long. Propagate it outside the island and lets see how well it does.

           by Sour Swinger March 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am

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