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
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

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”

http://www.blacksunjournal.com/film/1304_expelled-variety-review-gets-it-stupefyingly-wrong_2008.html
by ClintJCL April 18th, 2008 at 8:59 am
^^ My half-uncle’s review of the Expelled documentary
by ClintJCL April 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
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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