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Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20080430

April 30th, 2008
  • Albert Hofmann, creator of LSD (or is it discoverer of LSD?), has passed away at 102.

    • Albert Hofmann

    Albert Hofmann
    Photo by Stepan
  • The UN rejects water as basic human right. Check out an infographic of the emerging crisis here (HT Clint)
  • Lake Michigan’s water levels have dropped nearly four feet since 1997. How much lower will it go?
  • Some people are more equal than others, as Bill Gates’ carbon footprint is 10,000 times the national average.
  • Panoramic View of the Apollo 11 landing site.
  • They contained the same number of stars, but Ultracompact Galaxies in the early universe were only 5,000 light years across.

    • Ultracompact Galaxy

    Ultracompact Galaxy
    Image by NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI) and P. van Dokkum (Yale)
  • The Earth’s natural feedback mechanisms regulated carbon for hundreds of thousands of years before we started burning up all the carbon stored in fossil fuels.
  • 523 years after Da Vinci drew it, a Swedish daredevil taken the jump using the inventor’s parachute design.
  • How about a Nobel Prize for kids who ask the good questions that inspire good science?
  • Google scientists believe they have a way to make their image-search results more relevant using image recognition software.
  • Colorado State University’s stance that hurricane predictions were taking up too much staff time, has been criticized by the dittohead spin machine as part of a vast liberal plot because the professor in charge of the research is a Global Warming skeptic.
  • From the makers of the Segway, comes the future of prosthetics:



    • 4 comments to “Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20080430”

    1. I agree there should be a Nobel Prize for young scientists. I also think that instead of a cash prize, it should be in the form of a full ride scholarship to MIT, Stanford, or some other well renowned school of higher learning.

      Oh and Dean Kamen almost makes me want to chop off my arm. Almost…

      -BMF

           by BMF April 30th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    2. We just watched Hudson Hawk which involved Bruce Willis, among other things, flying in one of Da Vinci’s flying machines….

           by ClintJCL April 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    3. Boo, kids. Don’t trust them.

      And what do you all think of this?
      http://www.wral.com/news/political/image/2808275/?img_list=2808952%2C2808939%2C2808111%2C2808275%2C2808273&ref_id=2808557

           by Nick Hamden April 30th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    4. I’m jealous. No way he’d come to the NENC neighborhood though. : (

           by ideonexus May 1st, 2008 at 10:57 pm

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