Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080510

May 9th, 2008

Morgan Spark, contributor to the development of the second-generation transistor, has logged out at 91.

Top: Burma coast on April 15, 2008
Bottom: Myanmar coast on May 5, 2008,
after Tropical Cyclone Nargis.
Image courtesy NASA

The British bird, great tit (snarf!), is successfully adapting to climate change.

Screw BlueRay! I’m waiting for holographic digital storage technology so I can keep my entire movie collection on one disk.

Women are waiting longer to have children, which raises the question when’s the best time to have kids?

Tourists have been overfeeding Macaca monkeys in Japan so much they’ve become obese (Shocking Photos in article).

Lava and Lightning from Chile’s Chaiten volcano.

Fifty small things you can do to save the planet.

What is it about sled dogs’ metabolism that let them run so long?

Free Software that could one day earn you a Nobel Prize. The game FoldIt turns protein folding into a competitive sport.

Foldit Homepage
University of Washington

The US Department of Energy has awarded $126.6 million in grants to test carbon sequestration in underground caverns.

Cool product for kids and adult-kids: TouchBubbles.

Evidence that primitive whales got the bends.

A couple is considering puberty delayment therapy to give their child more time to figure out if he/she is a boy or girl.

Ohhh… Pretty. Check out the Cloud Appreciation Society.

So you’ve sold all your worldly possessions thinking the world was going to end, and it didn’t. What do you do now?.

Biochemistry taught by Legos:

ideonexus.com