Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080619

June 19th, 2008

California is taking an extremely undemocratic stand against home DNA testing by requiring you get permission from your doctor first. I just sent DNA samples to the Bone Marrow Donor program, would that make me a criminal in California?

Human Chromosomes
Credit: Stefan Müller,
Department Biologie II der
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Dittoheads are digging the #$%@ out of this TCPR report claiming Al Gore’s “personal electricity consumption up 10%,” and cites his home using 213,219 kWh in 2007, but the same website cites his home using 221,000 kWh in 2006. No wonder dittoheads don’t believe in Global Warming, THEY CAN’T DO BASIC #@$%ING MATH!!! Ha! Ha! What dips!!! Thpppt!!! (HT Deltoid)

Bush is calling for an end to the ban on offshore oil drilling, and John McCain is right there with him, but we won’t see any oil from new drilling for at least a decade.

Ocean temperatures and sea level increases were 50 percent higher between 1961 and 2003 over what the IPCC reported.

The Freedom Tower is going green with state of the art fuel cells.

Freedom Tower Construction Jan 21, 2008
Credit: Michaelkemp

Female chimps have loud sex when males are around to stir up competition among them, but are quiet when other females are about to avoid competing with them.

Models suggest that, considered in the wider scope of the species, male homosexuality in humans may benefit female fecundity, but there are no specifics on the cause and effect. So I’m just posting this link as dull but sincere filler.

Firefox download day, despite maxing out Mozilla’s servers, appears to have broken the world record at 8.2 million downloads.

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