Science Etcetera Moonday, 20070407

Posted on 7th April 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera

Scientists are adding heavier elements to the periodic table every year, but they only exist for a moment. Now they hypothesize Islands of super-heavy Stable Elements.

Islands of Stability Courtesy of Yuri Organessian

Charelton Heston, action hero for many philosophical distopian Science Fiction films and gun nut, has passed away

Boeing has made the first hydrogen battery flight.

This is scary for the way bacteria can trade genes between one another to adapt more quickly, researchers have discovered hundreds of bacteria in soil that can live off of eating antibiotics.

Bacteria infected with viruses are responsible for some of the oxygen we breath.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland has cancelled Medical database searches for the word “Abortion” for fear of loosing federal funding.

Jenny McCarthy debates doctors on vaccines and autism. McCarthy lacks the science to win the debate, but the scientists lack the diplomacy to win it as well.

Tips for living with Asperger’s.

University logo etched into a human hair.

Logo in Human Hair

Being exposed to the Apple logo can make you more creative, according to a study on logos and the brain.

Being married adds seven hours of housework a week for women.

If everyone in America switched to GE’s new energy-star water heater right now, we could do away with 30 coal-fired power plants.

Moment of Science: Surinam Toads birthing out of their mother’s back (ht Science Punk):

Comments (5)

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1. Out of the mother’s back? That’s some H.R.-Gieger-type stuff there. I expect the baby frog to open its mouth, and another, smaller baby frog to come out.

   Comment by ClintJCL — April 7, 2008 @ 9:10 am

2. That looks weird. Wonder if it hurts and do those holes heal up then?

   Comment by sour Swinger — April 8, 2008 @ 10:59 pm

3. Your question got me researching, I ran through about a dozen websites looking for the answer, but I finally found this one, which explains that the female sheds her skin after the eggs hatch.

   Comment by ideonexus — April 9, 2008 @ 10:58 pm

4. I guess that’s not quite as painful..

   Comment by ClintJCL — April 10, 2008 @ 3:17 am

5. I don’t know. The way they said the baby toads “explode” from her back. How could that not hurt?

   Comment by sour Swinger — April 10, 2008 @ 11:46 am

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