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Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080529

May 29th, 2008
  • Our hearts and prayers are with the ISS Crew today as they deal with a broken toilet, the only one onboard (Shiver).
  • Scientists are studying an infrared ring around a Magnestar, which has a magnetic field a million billion times stronger than the Earth’s.

    • Magnestar

    Magnestar
  • Jane Goodall speaks to the European Union, urging them to do more to end animal testing.
  • Meanwhile, to muddle up this ethical conundrum, a monkey feeds itself using a robot arm controlled with its brain.
  • Climate change in America will reduce water flow in the west and increase it in the East.
  • One-third of the tap water used for drinking in North America goes toward brewing coffee, and other things to consider in water conservation.
  • Angry people watch more news but come away with less facts. Guess we should change those bumper stickers to read, “If You Aren’t Angry, You are Paying Attention.”
  • Lead exposure linked to violent crime.
  • Like the X-Men’s Wolverine, clawed frogs push bones through their skin to defend themselves.

    • Hairy Frog

    Hairy Frog
    Trichobatrachus robustus
    Photo by Gustavocarra
  • A 380-million-year-old fish fossil, “Mother Fish” (Materpiscis attenboroughi), is the oldest known case of live birth, still attached to her offspring by the umbilical cord.
  • Rates of Childhood obesity in America have leveled off, but we’re still too fat.
  • New weapon in the war on depression: Brain Pacemakers.
  • Top 10 Things Science Can’t Explain, like yawning and female orgasms.
  • Awesome photos of swarm behavior.
  • Sweden is turning sewage into biofuels. Upon hearing this news, the price of human poop skyrocketed.
  • Eight ways to recycle a two-liter bottle:



    • 2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080529”

    1. I had no idea that dark matter was either “MACHO” or “WIMP”. That’s even stranger than the Quark Names!

           by ClintJCL May 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    2. Too bad there is already a “Frog-Man” in the Marvel Universe, or else they could totally have an upheaval of Wolverine’s character.

           by DJ Nicko May 29th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

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