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Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080402

April 2nd, 2008
  • April is National Garden Month. Go outside and plant a tree.
  • April Fools day everyday. Wired has 10 pranks for Geeks. Google and Virgin has Virgle to establish a colony on Mars.

    • Octopi Hold Hands Tentacles

    Octopi Hold Hands Tentacles
  • Octopi may not live in Seattle forests, but they certainly do have a fascinatingly engaging love lives.
  • Web 2.0 milestone: Wikipedia hits 10 Million Articles.
  • God Helmets, Guessing the Soul’s Weight, how Sex Affects Weather, it’s the all-time 10 Craziest Scientific Experiments.
  • We may have learned some medical remedies from primates ancestors.
  • Researchers have reproduced music in a file almost 1,000 times smaller than an MP3 file.
  • Here’s an important sociological insight, fear of messing up may cause whites to avoid blacks, and I’ll bet this phenomena works both ways.
  • The Runner’s High is real.
  • The American West is heating up twice as fast as the rest of America from Climate Change.
  • Smallest Black Hole Ever.
  • Check out the data visualization web search tool, Tianamo:



    • 2 comments to “Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080402”

    1. Ryan,

      The -pus ending of “octopus” is Greek, not the -us (like “radius”) ending of Latin. When you say “octopi,” you’re using a Latin grammar form on a Greek word. However, “octopi” has gained acceptance as a plural because it’s so widely misused that more people misuse it than don’t. The Greek plural of “-pus” is either -podes or -poda. Here’s a haiku I wrote for the phylogeny website that might help you; it has the plurals for octopus listed in order of grammatical preference. Come to think of it, I think I posted it on ideonexus many moons ago.

      Multioctopus Conundrum Redux, Ascending Propriety
      Octopus doubled
      Octopuses, Octopi
      Octopodes/poda

           by flyingsirkus April 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    2. Kristina,

      I am in awe of your grammatical geekiness. Very cool haiku. You hadn’t shared that before, but its very very cool. Well done. : )

      ry

           by ideonexus April 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm

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