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Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080603

June 3rd, 2008
  • Behold! The TED Talks Sphere:

    • TED Talks Sphere

    TED Talks Sphere
  • Note to teachers: A student who isn’t making eye-contact is probably thinking hard about the question.
  • How many Microbots can dance on the head of a pin?
  • A brief history of how sugar changed the world.
  • An orb three times Earth’s mass and likely covered in a deep ocean has taken the title for smallest exoplanet yet found.
  • The debate is on over Climate Change Legislation.
  • Perceiving sarcasm requires Theory of Mind.
  • Gummy Bear Anatomy

    • Gummy Bear Anatomy

    Gummy Bear Anatomy
  • Geophysicist Dan Lathrop is trying to recreate the Earth’s Magnetic Field using a spinning stainless steel sphere filled with molten metal.
  • The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network seeks to help autistics speak for themselves.
  • Your friends are mostly a matter of circumstance, not choice.
  • Stem Cell Barbie.
  • Discovery has docked with the ISS delivering a great big laboratory and, more importantly, a toilet pump.
  • Scientists have located the “Nervous Wreck Gene.”
  • NASA watered down climate studies between 2004 and 2006.
  • Another sweet Periodic Table, this one with electron orbital configurations (HT BMF).

    • Periodic Table

    Periodic Table

    2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080603”

    1. Your periodic table link points to this blogpost :)

           by ClintJCL June 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am

    2. D’oh! Thanks, corrected.

           by ideonexus June 4th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

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