Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080404

Posted on 4th April 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera - Tags: , ,

Black Bear Travolta Impression

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

    Smiles: Fake or Genuine?
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    1. Kill A Cane Toad day is more like Whacking Day on The Simpsons. As in, that episode was actually based on the cane toad.

      Comment by ClintJCL — April 4, 2008 @ 10:39 am

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