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Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20080503

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

    Science Generation
  • 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

    Certificate of Participation in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
    Send Your Name to the Moon Project
  • 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.

    • Certificate of Participation in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter “Lake Baikal

    Lake Baikal
    Image from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project.
  • 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

    Roller-Coaster Designer

    3 comments to “Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20080503”

    1. I had heard that this bill was also proposed locally and I was looking forward to the Virginia Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (VAGINA). I’m glad to see this taking place at a federal level. Believe me, GINA is a good thing.

      -BMF

           by BMF May 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 am

    2. Happy Birthday Brandon!

      I signed up my name for the moon too, and because of the alphabet’s existence, I get to reach the moon before yours!! m

           by Nick Hamden May 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 am

    3. Nick,

      Thanks! I totally didn’t expect to see that here. :)

      -BMF

           by BMF May 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

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