Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20080503
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
The Greatest Generation, the Baby Boomers, Generations X… The American Museum of Natural History argues it’s time for a Science Generation.
Science Generation
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A 130 million year old dinosaur poop sold at an auction for $1,000. It was bought by the owner of a pet waste treatment company who wanted to motivate his employees. (HT Carolyn)
Check out the early contenders for the Automotive X Prize.
Ben Stein says that “science leads you to killing people.” So I guess this blog needs a warning label.
The New York Botanical Garden is putting together a global database of tree DNA.
Free opportunity to send your name to the moon.
Certificate of Participation in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Send Your Name to the Moon Project
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Using a robotic squirrel to spy on the real ones.
Video of the difference engine #2 in action. Very elegant.
Proteins in the lenses of our eyes carry a radioactive marker from nuclear bomb testing started in 1955 that can be used to determine our age.
Warming waters are expanding oxygen-depleted dead zones in the ocean.
Congress has passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).
Lake Baikal, is the world’s largest, deepest, and biologically unique lake, but it’s located in Siberia, one of the most drastically changing environments due to global warming.
Lake Baikal
Image from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project.
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Babies are wired for math, pattern recognition, and many other discoveries of human innate cognitive abilities at the Harvard’s baby brain research lab.
Peak oil, peak water, and now peak dirt?
Our solar system “bounces” up and down through the plane of our galaxy every 35 to 40 million years, sending comets and asteroids on chaotic paths.
Flash Game teaches physics: Roller-Coaster Designer
Roller-Coaster Designer
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