Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080404

April 4th, 2008

Black Bear Travolta Impression

Hidden cameras have revealed the secret lives of dancing bears.

More pictures of big animals found in the Antarctic.

The human memory works like a digital camera, taking snapshots of details observed by the eyes, shutting down for brief moments, and has limited slots for memory storage.

Drinking caffeine daily may protect the brain against dementia

Incredible! There’s no link to the Sun causing Climate Change (this is just the latest in many reports that have disproved the claim). I don’t understand? How could the dittoheads be wrong???

No such thing as alternative energy? Check out Project Better Place for a practical business plan for switching to electric cars.

Europe’s Jules Verne, a robotic cargo ship, has successfully docked with the ISS.

The Aztecs had fractions.

Australia’s MP is calling for a kill the Cane Toad Day, sort of like a Save the Bay day, but for an invasive species.

Mountain-climbing causes brain damage.

Fossilized poop pushes back the date of the earliest Native Americans 1,000 years from 14,340 years ago.

Can you Spot the Fake Smiles in this BBC psychology test? (HT Clint)

Smiles: Fake or Genuine?

One comment to “Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080404”

Kill A Cane Toad day is more like Whacking Day on The Simpsons. As in, that episode was actually based on the cane toad.
by ClintJCL April 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am