Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080325

March 25th, 2008

Richard Dawkins has a review of Expelled online, confirming it relates Evolutionary Theory to Nazism and commenting on the hypocrisy of expelling a prominent evolutionist from seeing the film.

French, English, Lojban… The Economist magazine describes mathematics as the true International Language.

Global Warming theorists are taking part in an annual wager to guess when the Arctic ice will crack. I wonder if any skeptics would like put their money where their mouths are?

Pandas only have a few days to successfully mate each year, since the Pandas at the Smithsonian National zoo failed, zookeepers are resorting to artificial insemination.

Researchers have found that leaders can restrict information to sway public opinion. In other news, the sun is hot and the Earth orbits it.

The W Administration has made it extremely difficult to protect endangered species. 59 species have been added to the list in Bush’s 7 years of presidency, nearly the same number his father added every year of his presidency.

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research has found some surprisingly large marine life in Antarctic waters, including giant star fish and fields of sea lilies that stretch for hundreds of yards along the ocean floor.

National Geographic has time-lapsed video of a retreating glacier.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has called for the suspension of funding to finding an HIV vaccine, which has made little progress and won’t make any for more than a decade, arguing that the money should instead be put into prevention.

Extracellular matrix is a powder made from pig bladders, and a man who sprinkled it on the missing tip of his finger grew it back.

Nazi Doctors, American Physicist enthusiastic about nuclear war, and the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment are just some of the frightening tales from the Dark Side of Science Slideshow.

Money can buy happiness, if you give it to other people.

Easter, the Christian holiday where Jesus comes out of the cave and if he sees his shadow there will be more winter, is over, leaving Wal-Mart’s overstocked with themed candies. So it’s a good time for Science Experiments with Peeps!

Science with Peeps