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Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080418

April 18th, 2008
  • Correction: NASA says the 13-year-old boy did not prove them wrong, contrary to all the interweb hype earlier this week.
  • Dubya is really really really gonna do something about Climate Change for sure this time right? Don’t be a moron.
  • This is what night skies are supposed to look like. Flagstaff, AZ gets to enjoy them because they are an International Dark-Sky City.

  • Interational Dark-Sky City, Flagstaff, AZ

    Interational Dark-Sky City, Flagstaff, AZ
    Photo by Dan & Cindy Duriscoe
  • Not only might the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) find the fabled Higgs-Boson particle, but it might also find unparticles too.
  • A moment of silence for Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory. Can you hear the butterfly’s wings flapping?
  • Coming soon to a blue sky near you giant foam floating ads.
  • In America, our government pays farmers to not grow crops, in Canada, the government pays farmers to slaughter and dispose of 150,000 pigs to keep the price of pork up.
  • Make calls it a “Desktop Biosphere,” but really this is just a cool tutorial for making a terrarium, a self-contained ecosystem in a jar.
  • Silverbackers is a free game you can download for your mobile phone to learn about preserving the Mountain Gorilla.

  • Silverbackers Mobile Phone Game

    Silverbackers Mobile Phone Game
  • Selectively quoting Darwin to make him sound like a Nazi (Goodwin’s Law), staged speeches, false testimonials, and more in Six Things in Expelled that Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know…
  • 20,000 items and 90,000 images from Darwin’s work have been made available online.
  • Using fuzzy logic to analyze pollutants could lead to water quality improvement.
  • It’s not in your head eldest-born, parents really are stricter on us to set an example to our younger siblings.
  • Explaining the multiple worlds hypothesis with the Super Mario Multiverse:


  • 4 comments to “Science Etcetera Venusday, 20080418”

    1. http://www.blacksunjournal.com/film/1304_expelled-variety-review-gets-it-stupefyingly-wrong_2008.html


    2. ^^ My half-uncle’s review of the Expelled documentary


    3. I had the opportunity to see it when I was in NY, and I’m kicking myself for being too tired and resistant to paying $20 for the ticket. I would have loved to ridicule it myself. Your half-uncle’s points are great as always.


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