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Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080513

May 13th, 2008
  • Silent Energy is an exhibit illustrating how much energy gets produced in things like turning a door knob or typing on a keyboard.
    • Silent Energy

    Silent Energy
  • Is this news? Kids think eyeglasses make other kids look smart. Duh?
  • Phone Scam: Sending a text message on your cell phone costs four times more than downloading data from the Hubble Telescope.
  • Fish diet to keep from getting big enough to challenge rivals.
  • Not a new idea, but one I appreciate, Stuart Kauffman thinks we should call the Universe god in his book Reinventing the Sacred.
  • Pervert seal tries to have sex with a penguin.
  • Wind Turbines could meet 20 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.
  • You can follow the Solar Impulse flying around the world in a live virtual demonstration.
    • Solar Impulse Virtual Flight

    Solar Impulse Virtual Flight
  • Software for planning out how to save species.
  • Cool Slideshow: The Chaotic Genesis of Planets.
  • McCain is touting his environmentalism, but his record isn’t so great.
  • A woman caught the thieves who stole her Macintosh laptop, by remoting into it and taking their picture.
  • WORST PRESIDENT EVER: The Bush Administration is seeking to block meatpackers from testing their animals for mad cow disease.
  • The first space lawyer has graduated. I propose calling him a “Satellite Chaser.”
  • Not only do Orchids get wasps to waste energy mating with them, they get them to ejaculate as well:

    • 5 comments to “Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080513”

    1. A flower that makes wasps ejaculate…weird!

           by Sour Swinger May 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    2. A penguin that makes seals ejaculate…weird!

      -BMF

           by BMF May 13th, 2008 at 12:12 am

    3. Sorry… I was feeling lazy.

      -BMF

           by BMF May 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    4. A Catholic priest that makes altar boys ejaculate…weird!

           by ClintJCL May 13th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    5. ROFL

           by Sour Swinger May 13th, 2008 at 11:07 am

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