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Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080606

June 6th, 2008
  • Take a moment to sign up for Firefox 3 Download Day 2008 an attempt to break the world record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period (I just know their servers are gonna crash). No release date as of yet.

    • Firefox 3 Download Day 2008

    Firefox 3 Download Day 2008
  • Apparently I wasn’t the only one tweaked about the methodology used for that cell phone tracking study. Similar ethics questions exist concerning scientific studies using social networking sites (HT Carolyn).
  • Scientists from the UK are studying the large-scale collisions of moonlets regularly happening in Saturn’s F-ring for clues to the formation of planets.
  • Our brains are plastic enough for us to improve our IQs more than we expected.
  • A study of media sources show Obama’s win over Hillary was, in part, a win of race over gender prejudice in Society.
  • Blah. Blah. Blah. Blah. Blah. Senator Inhofe won’t shut up (or answer questions) when it comes to monopolizing the “debate” over the Climate Change bill.
  • In 20 years a nanny car will tell us when we are too tired or too old to drive.
  • Thanks to three Generations of measurements taken by a Siberian family, we now know that Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest and most voluminous lake, has warmed 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1946.
  • The flash game Epsilon is an addictive puzzle game filled with wormholes, time and gravity reversals.

    • Epsilon

    Epsilon
  • A step toward Von Neuman Machines, the RepRap 3-D fabricator has replicated itself.
  • From human bullets to drinking stomach ulcer bacteria, Cracked has the 6 Most Badass Stunts in the Name of Science.
  • Golly! That’s one great big map of the Milky Way!
  • Sliding arctic ice sheets create daily magnitude 7 earthquakes, and they’re on the rise.
  • Male genital mutilations, such as circumcision, may have come about to handicap young men from inseminating the older men’s women .
  • Good? Bad? Microsoft has applied for a patent on a device manners police policy (DMP) which will allow places like movie theaters to turn off certain cell phone and other wireless device features.
  • Bees can learn foreign bee languages pretty easily.
  • National Center for Science Education short: Jesus in My school:



    • One comment to “Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080606”

    1. That game is awesome! Don’t understand the ghost rooms though. They confuse me more then help me.

      Score one for Evolution! Down with ID!!!

           by Sour Swinger June 9th, 2008 at 9:06 am

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