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Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20070410

April 10th, 2008
  • The Shell Eco-marathon kicks off today, a challenge for people to build a vehicle that can get the best mileage. Last year’s winner got 1902.7 MPG.
  • A 14-year-old has made a card game out of chemistry called Elementeo.

    • Elementeo

    Elementeo
  • NASA’s top climate scientist warns the Earth is in crisis, Dittoheads responded by adding NASA to their list of liberal media sources, along with Science Textbooks and reality.
  • Hubble is not the telescope, but it does monitor black holes, of the internet connectivity kind, in real time.
  • A possible way to sequester CO2 emissions, make CDs and DVDs.
  • Carbon Buckyballs would be a major potential threat to the environment were they to escape the manufacturing process into the ground water; however, adding citric acid to the mix may render them harmless.
  • Coral Reefs subjected to seeding and protections are making a comeback.
  • Antarctica without ice.

    • Antarctica without ice.

    Antarctica without ice.
  • Future privacy concern: Cognitive Liberty, the right not to have our brains scanned.
  • Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a degenerative brain disease that causes a surge of creativity before disabling.
  • The world’s first tide-powered turbine is set to go online.
  • The “clamshell” plastic packaging style now dominates our products, but the design is infuriating to open, sends 6,500 people to the emergency room each year, and accounts for nearly one-third of our trash. Now people are finally getting fed up with it.
  • As the Japanese population gets older, a Think Tank is estimating that robots could take over the jobs of 3.5 million people.
  • Flooding the Grand Canyon had mixed results.
  • A Prince Rupert’s Drop is molten glass dropped in water and then taken out. The outside of the glass is cool, but the inside stays hot. The result? EXPLODY DROPS!!! (HT Science Punk)



    • 2 comments to “Science Etcetera Jupiterday, 20070410”

    1. Ryan,

      Why does the Prince Rupert’s Drop link back to this blog post? And I thought the cool thing about a Prince Rupert’s Drop was that you could smack the bulbous end with a hammer and it would not break. It’s when you cut the thin end, then it explodes. Am I wrong about this?

      -BMF

           by BMF April 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    2. Do’h! Thanks for the peer-review. The link is fixed now.

           by ideonexus April 10th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

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