Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080408

April 8th, 2008

Scientists have found a frog in Indonesia that has evolved to breath through its skin so that it doesn’t have lungs.

Indonesian Frog Breaths Through Its Skin
Photo by David Bickford

Something for the Fed to consider: Sex and money-grubbing go hand-in-hand in the brain.

People were getting drunk on chocolate beer 3,000 years ago. Dogfish Head Brewery is going to produce a loose recreation of the brew.

A kayaking couple got too close to a humpback whale and her calf, so she gave an impressive display to warn them off. Awesome photos of the encounter.

Cool map of neural connections in the frontal cortex of a monkey’s brain (HT The Loom)

Monkey Neural Connections

I lost god after reading the bible, Francis Collins found god after cracking the human genome. Thomas Paine would be proud.

Left-Handed Amino Acids that make up the overwhelming majority of life on Earth, came from outer space.

Male monkeys prefer toys for human boys. Female monkeys had no preference.

The dittoheads are dancing in the streets for this headline, but the fact that La Nina has stalled global temperatures rising still means that global temperatures are above average.

With computers handling all the logical tasks for us, it’s time to start living in our right brains.

While we’re waiting for the Crayola Physics game to come out, we can play the Flash game “Magic Pen”, which uses the same concept.

Flash Game Magic Pen

I love physics game. Unfortunately I had to pull myself away from that one. Else I’d waste several hours of my life. If I had my tablet, it would be even better.
by sour Swinger April 8th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
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Source(Fountain): FreeGuia.
by FreeGuia July 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Virtual Spyware?
Oh noes!
People saying they are high when they are actually low?
Those bastards!
by DJ Nicko July 13th, 2008 at 5:00 am