Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080620

June 20th, 2008

When astronauts go back to the moon in 2020, they’ll be sporting sleek new duds.

New Spacesuit Designs
Credit: NASA

Yowza! Researchers predict we’ll be having sex with robots in 40 years! I can’t wait to get a piece of firmware! Yay Robosexuality!

Possible discovery of homosexuality in the brain. Men and women who are into women have larger right-brain hemispheres, while men and women into men have more symmetrical brains.

In many important ways same-sex marriages are healthier than their heterosexual counterparts, because they tend to be more egalitarian.

High gas prices are good news for segways (Plus 17 Reasons why Bicycles rock).

Turistas en Segway
Credit: Barberenc

I recently linked to Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think as an example of a “steampunk internet,” but it turns out WWW was dreamt of even before this with Paul Otlet’s 1934 Mundaneum, a global network of “electric telescopes.”

Our ability to read is a happy side-effect of many parts of our brains evolutionarily intended for other purposes.

Medical Science may be on the verge of doubling our lifespans, if this occurs then our cultural understandings of concepts like love and mortality will change significantly.

Gays Isolate the Christian Gene:

2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080620”

I guess the real question is, will we be able to get it up in 40 years?
by ClintJCL June 20th, 2008 at 8:58 am
I liked the article on immortality. I just felt like it started to repeat itself a lot
by DJ Nicko June 20th, 2008 at 10:29 pm