Science Etcetera, Moonday 20080714
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Hunting, fishing, and shooting sports are dumping millions of pounds of lead into our environment each year, threatening wildlife.
Radiograph of immature bald eagle
containing numerous lead shot
in its digestive tract
Credit: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
One benefit to high gas prices is that they are driving automobile deaths down by one 1,000 a month by one prediction.
NASA cutting straight to its most important experiments on the Mars Lander in case a short-circuit kills its remaining ovens.
Stephen L. Johnson, who I’ve previously covered, has succeeded in preventing America from doing anything about air pollution until we have a new President.
22 iPhone Applications for science geeks.
Study of an Iquanodon fossil reveal it died from getting stuck in the mud and then eaten by another dinosaur.
North African nations are preparing to build a wall of trees to halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert.
Wind-blown dust from the
expanding Sahara Desert
Credit: NASA
Chemicals that make up life on Earth would also work on hot super-Earths found orbiting other stars.
A remote-controlled robot that can go shopping for you.
The Baby Boom galaxy produces 4,000 new stars a year, compared to our Milky Way’s 10.
Will West Virginia allow companies to strip-mine Coal River Mountain one of the last mountains still intact in the Coal River Valley?
Cicada Earrings.
Make’s Game of Life kit:
Game of Life - An electronics kit from make magazine on Vimeo.
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Radiograph of immature bald eagle containing numerous lead shot in its digestive tract Credit: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association |
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Wind-blown dust from the expanding Sahara Desert Credit: NASA |
Game of Life - An electronics kit from make magazine on Vimeo.
