Science Etcetera Marsday, 20080415

April 15th, 2008

I have a new Mecca! The Corpus Human Body Museum in the Netherlands.

Corpus Human Body Museum

A lack of cloud-coverage played a larger role than CO₂ emissions in producing ancient Super-Greenhouse Effects.

Microscopic operating table for conducting nanosurgery on a 1 mm worm.

Is the “unstable nonlinearity” observed in fruit flies mean they have freewill.

While human troop levels will stay the same in Iraq, robots are being pulled out for pointing their guns at friendlies.

Climate Models show that Global Warming may decrease the severity and occurrence of hurricanes in some areas.

Textour is an interesting application for statistical analysis of text into visual patterns.

Textour

Scientists firing high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm triggered electrical activity.

Disposal experts detonated 1,500lb WWII mine, awesome pic accompanies article.

A study showed that “children can identify 1,000 logos, but only 10 plants or animals.” Support the No Child Left Inside Campaign.

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