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Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20080614

June 14th, 2008
  • National Get Outdoors Day is today!!! (HT TGAW).
  • One-fifth of the oxygen we breath comes from the Prochlorococcus bacteria, living in the Ocean (Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of its discovery).

    • oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

    oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
    Credit: William K. Li and Frédéric Partensky
  • Lizards running on two legs are, in fact, pulling wheelies.
  • Is the solution to poor people selling their organs to the rich to legalize the practice, making it safer and eliminating the blackmarket?
  • Toothpaste is too expensive for the poor.
  • The psychology behind what turns otherwise well-behaved soccer moms and dads into ultra-competitive such-and-suches.
  • The UFO seen floating off the space shuttle Discovery as it heads back to Earth is just a clip from the rudder, and serves no purpose on re-entry.
  • Code Swarm visualizes the history of commits in a software project.

    • Code Swarm

    Code Swarm
    Credit: Michael Ogawa
  • Three smart facts about music.
  • Visualizing cause of death data.
  • Satellite images of war’s destruction.
  • The hole in the Ozone layer is expected to heal by the end of the century, which may worsen Global Warming.
  • Visualizing Iraq War data.
  • Wearing flip-flops is linked to an increased risk of a serious form of skin cancer.
  • Science supports environmentalism, and that’s why Republicans work so strongly against it.
  • Preview of the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
  • DROD Puzzlegame:



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