Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080613

June 13th, 2008

The world’s largest open robot competition, the Robot Games, kicks off this weekend.

Robot Soccer at the RoboGames
Credit: RoboGames

Letting teens sleep in one additional hour improves their cognitive performance. I suspect this study was funded by the wealthy adolescent lobby.

30 species of reptiles and amphibians are fleeing uphill from Global Warming, but there’s only so far they can go.

Christians take note: A 2,000 year old date palm, dubbed the “Methuselah Tree,” has been resurrected and is growing steadily at 26 months. If you want your Jesus back, you need to start donating your money to science.

The first Leatherback Turtle since the 1930s has nested on a Texas beach.

With an impending food crisis, why aren’t we funding research to overcome it?

Unicorn Deer

Filed under Information Science: Wordle.net is an online tool that will convert pasted text, text files, and del.icio.us into very pretty tag clouds.

Wordle Tag Cloud for Ryeguy123 Del.icio.us
Credit: RoboGames

Satellite photo slideshow of Africa Despoiled.

The Summer Olympics in Beijing will capture photo-finishes at 3,000ths of a second.

Despite eight years of abuse by the Bush administration, the United States is still number one in Science and Technology. Got that world? We did it with Bush as President. That’s like kicking your collective butt with one hand tied behind our back!!! USA! USA! USA!

42 years from now, alien civilizations living in the Ursa Major constellation will recieve the Doritos ad we just broadcasted to them .

Superconductor electric vehicle

220 acre greenhouse complex begins construction in Britain.

Molecular Visualizations of DNA (HT Oranchak):

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2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080613”

You know those soccer robots are “only” $1200 when I looked into it in the past… not TOO shabby if that was a big hobby.
by ClintJCL June 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Awesome video
by Sour Swinger June 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am