Science Etecetera, Moonday 20080427

April 28th, 2008

20 years of research that will greatly improve our ability to model the climate, scientists have mapped out the crisscrossing patterns of ocean currents.

Ocean Current Striations
Nikolai Maximenko, University of Hawaii

Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! September 27th!!! The Smithsonian’s going to open a new “Ocean Hall.”

Whoa. An engineered microbe converts solar energy in to sugar and cellulose.

Well you can just rock me to sleep tonight mulling this one over. Are mathematics discovered or invented?

My Lasik eye surgery was botched, I had a moment of pain and blurry vision for months in one eye while it healed (looked nasty too), but I would do it again in an instant; however, the FDA is looking into providing more information to patients considering the procedure. So they’ll understand what happened to me could happen to them.

I love how human altruism can extend to species even distantly related, as when people equipped a paralyzed turtle with wheels.

How three regions are dealing with peak water.

Nuclear Power is a significant improvement over coal, only one problem we’ve hit peak Uranium.

Ohhhh… Check out Nano Photos.

Okay. I give up. What does this mean? I totally accept that I lose geek points for asking.

The narwhal, that whale with a great big spiral tusk sticking out of its head, is in greater danger than the polar bear from Arctic warming.

Anatomy and dissection in Japan 1819, the Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls.

Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls
Yasukazu Minagaki (1784-1825)

Offcials are using DNA to figure out what kids from a polygamy sect belong to what mothers.

The Virtual Human Interaction Lab has found that who you are in the virtual world affects who you are in real life.

Old news, but new evidence that Tyrannosaurus Rex is related to the chicken.

Spam is 30-years-old.

How to improve your gas mileage right now.

Mathematical relationship advice.

An ancient praying mantis found in amber might be a missing link.

The Egyptian Pyramids are packed with seashells, making them a fossil treasure-trove.

Why do humans have religion? Because where the only creatures to have evolved imagination.

Synchronized Swimming Mitosis:

4 comments to “Science Etecetera, Moonday 20080427”

Thanks for the turtle link. Now women think I have a knack for cute things, and thus, the world is a better place. For me.
by Nick Hamden April 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Anything I can do to make you more appealing to the ladies DJ Nicko.
by ideonexus April 29th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I was thinking the weird “Oddvo rmyog ovs” post on Sciam was similar to the upside-down text technique I had seen before, as demonstrated here:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=556276

“Turn your monitor upside down to read this = `s!y+ peaJ o+ umop ap!sdn Jo+!uow Jnoh uJnL”

But I don’t think that’s what’s going on in the sciam post.
by Dave May 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I thought it might’ve been something like that too. It remains a mystery.
by ideonexus May 13th, 2008 at 9:44 pm