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Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080326

March 26th, 2008
Map of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk

Map of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk
  • On their moonwalk, the Apollo 11 crew barely covered a soccer field’s worth of moonscape.
  • The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is on the verge of collapse. National Geographic has satellite photos of the ice shelf collapsing (HT Carolyn).
  • Dan Zarrella has fascinating anecdotes from the history of contagious laughter.
  • A new research paper challenges previous research connecting frog die-offs to climate change.
  • Russian divers draw on styrofoam cups and take them down with them on deep-sea dives, returning with cups shrunken from the pressure.
  • The new Star Trek movie will include the new electric hybrid car the Aptera.
  • Eyeglasses do not make the geek.
  • Sharks head to deeper water when a storm’s approaching.
  • ApriPoko is a robot you teach to be a universal remote with verbal instruction.
  • Columbia University is dismantling the Cyclotron and selling it for scrap, the particle accelerator was used in experiments that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
  • Results pending. Researchers are exploring the possibility that trees worsen droughts by siphoning water off of the water table.
  • LOL Clownfish (HT Clint)
  • Moment of Science, check out NG’s flash-based tour of the solar system.
    • National Geographic Tour of the Solar System

    National Geographic Tour of the Solar System

    One comment to “Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080326”

    1. The latest news about climate change is so alarming (the right wing would say alarmist) as to make many people want to plant their aching heads in the sand. Some scientists using advanced computer models now argue that if we want to stop the Earth from warming, the amount of carbon we should be emitting is … none. None? As in, zero? As in, shutting down the global industrial economy? After all, global energy demand is expected to accelerate until at least 2020. Yet attempts even to slow the rate of increase of carbon emissions have paralyzed world politics for more than a decade.

           by Alan Roberta March 26th, 2008 at 6:35 am

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