Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080502

May 2nd, 2008

OHHHHH!!! BURNNNNN!!! 45 of Senator Inhofe’s “500 Scientists who Don’t Believe in Global Warming” (many of whom are TV Weathermen, Economists, and biologists), are shocked to find their names on the list, and have asserted that they do not dispute the consensus on Global Warming!!! Whoop! Whoop! Dittoheads are tarded!!! Ha! Ha! Nyah! Nyah! (Gets up and moons all dittoheads from behind the blog)

Never willing to let a little thing like factual veracity get in their way, the dittoheads are pretending they finally have a peer-reviewed paper that refutes global warming, but that is total horse pattoties too.

37 years after engineering student Leon Chua described it mathematically, researchers at HP labs have built an electronics “missing link,” the memristor, which could lead to instant on computers with RAM chips that don’t lose their power state when shut off.

Memristor
Photo by J. J. Yang, HP Labs

Academic cross-pollination. An NSF grant is funding a two-year project to better understand how scientists from different fields collaborate.

Like human infants, baby birds babble before they learn to sing.

Video: Boomerang in space works like one on the ground. Now let’s test some ninja stars!

Highly unusual survival gear.

Male seahorses are such Mr. Moms that they even go as far as being the ones impregnated.

Chinese jumping spiders prefer males that reflect UVB light.

Last seen in 1985, a scientists has rediscovered a bizarre-looking parasitic plant.

Last seen in 1896, scientists have rediscovered the greater dwarf cloud rat.

Greater Dwarf Cloud Rat Carpomys melanurus
Photo by Larry Heaney, courtesy of The Field Museum.

Republicans are outraged over an amendment slipped into last year’s energy bill that requires their taxpayer-funded vehicles be hybrids.

The FDA believes a blood thinner contamination that caused 81 deaths was deliberate.

Swearing in your native tongue is more cathartic.

Robotic bypass surgery is less invasive and requires a shorter hospital stay than the traditional method of cracking a person’s chest open.

What does it mean for something to be “alive?” English-speaking children have a harder time identifying living things because of the way our language is constructed.

A plastic surgeon is arguing that the finger regrown with dust, wasn’t seriously damaged in the first place and would have regrown on its own.

The Water + Life Museums complex in Hermet, California has become the first museum to break the LEED platinum barrier.

The largest study of its kinds has found no cancer-marijuana connection.

05/07/2007 High Altitude Balloon Launch by Long Trail School:

2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080502”

Yet another study showing no cancer link with marijuana. “Proof” that if everyone who smoked tobacco switched to pot — we’d be saving millions of lives every decade.

Similarly, if you look at toxicological death rates among both casual and daily alcohol and cocaine users — alcohol users actually die at a great rate. And that’s not taking drunk driving into account. But this paragraph is based on old 1986 numbers I read around 1993 :)
by ClintJCL May 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 am
greater rate, I mean. (15X for occasional users, 3X for daily)
by ClintJCL May 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 am