Science Links for 07/02/2008

Science Etectera, Mercuryday 20080702

July 2nd, 2008

Below is one of the spooky proposed landing sites for Mars Science Lander.

Mars Science Lander Landing Site
Credit: NASA

Har! Har! Har! Those silly dittoheads are at it again, this time demanding a researcher publish his data for a paper that demonstrated the evolution of bacteria. If they had only bothered to read the paper, they would have found the data published in it!!! Silly Dittoheads! No science for you! Thpppt!!!

Good morning America, there are 450,000 acres of wildfires burning across the country right now.

John’s Hopkins Researchers report that most volunteers given psilocybin mushrooms in a controlled experiment say, 14 months later, that the experience “increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction.”

Creepy sounds of the solar wind colliding with Earth’s magnetic field. Somebody remix this with an NIN song.

Eigenfactor let’s you map scientific notations in journals. Nifty!

Eigenfactor

Science Rockstar: David Pritchard has an hypothesis that hookworms suppress the immune system, causing those infected with them to have fewer allergies. To test this he’s infected himself.

An awesome spectacular incredibly good-looking judge in Georgia, who probably has an enormous phallus, has denied a Coal Plant Permit because it did not set limits on Carbon Dioxide emissions.

ROUNDEST OBJECT EVER could be used to redefine the kilogram.

For just $10, you can adopt a star for the Kepler satellite to investigate, and get personal notification if a planet is discovered in orbit around it. I’m signed up and will get to select a star in August with all the other cool kids. Don’t you want to be part of the club?

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