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Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080717

July 17th, 2008

(Light blogging this week as I work on my house.)

  • Images of the atomic blast in it’s first millionth of a second.

    • Atomic Blast in first Millisecond

    Atomic Blast in first Millisecond
    Credit: Harold Edgerton
  • Local children born after closing a coal-fired power plant in China had larger skulls and healthier body weights.
  • Interactive oil-spill incident map from the NOAA.
  • Background TV messes with your child’s playtime.
  • It’s profitable to bluff in prediction markets.
  • Michael Benson suggest we send the ISS to the Moon.
  • Evolution in action: Facial cancer in Tasmanian devils is forcing them to breed earlier.
  • I’m curious about this Adopt a SETI Scientist Program.
  • Get better mileage and reduce tire wear by inflating tires with nitrogen.
  • The science of becoming Batman in real life.
  • Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed version of Wikipedia (HT oranchak.
  • How frogs survive being frozen in winter.
  • Pololu 3pi Line Maze Solving Robot:



    • 14 comments to “Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080717”

    1. You know, I thought the Batman article was pretty entertaining….

      -BMF

           by BMF July 17th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    2. Me too. And extra-special bonus points for it mentioning the Batman Beyonds animated series in a relevant way. I’m sure all the trendy sheeple who insist on flocking to the movie theatres to see the latest hollywood production (which will be on netflix in 6 months) than, say, go to my house party tomorrow, probably never even heard of it.

           by ClintJCL July 17th, 2008 at 11:03 am

    3. Is Batman Beyond a not well known thing?

      If I may speak for the younger generation, I can say that it was definitely on my Saturday Morning cartoon schedule at one point in my earlier life.

           by DJ Nicko July 17th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    4. I’m betting that if you walked into a theatre showing the movie, and asked people who have seen it to raise their hand, that you’d see less than 5%…

           by ClintJCL July 17th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    5. Ah well, I know I don’t even remember much about it. I was a bit turned off by the futuristic aspect of it all :(

           by DJ Nicko July 17th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    6. Sure, it may not be official canon (were the original creators involved? or even the creators of the 1990s Batman animated series? I don’t know), but I thought the futuristic aspect was pretty cool. Seeing Bruce Wayne as an old man (but with the same voice actor) was pretty cool too. Hell, I even watched all 26 episodes of The Zeta Project, which was an unrelated (except for 2 episodes) spinoff :D

           by ClintJCL July 17th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    7. I think at the same time as this, Static Shock came out, and I was all for Static Shock.

           by DJ Nicko July 17th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    8. Now THAT I have to disagree with. I thought SS sucked (which is rare for me, to hate a superhero cartoon), though I did manage to get through the crossover episode that featured Static Shock and…. Who.. X-Men Evolution? I don’t remember.

           by ClintJCL July 17th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    9. Well, as an african american youth at the time, it really spoke to me!

      >.>

      Err, im white nevermind.

      But hey, X-men Evolution, got those 4 seasons right next to the other X-men Cartoon’s 5 seasons on my external, haha.

           by DJ Nicko July 18th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    10. hahaha, DJ Nicklo :) And yes, those 2 x-men series kicked ass. Esp. the 1990s one. Esp the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix and Beyond Good And Evil sagas.

           by ClintJCL July 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    11. How do you feel about the state of the art 90s spiderman cartoon? The one that seems to be made for like, ADD kids.

      Not counting intro or ending credits, those episodes were like, 17-18 minutes long. And super fast.

           by DJ Nicko July 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    12. That’s the same length as any 30 minute show, minus commercials, opening credits, ending credits, and intro (”previously on…”). It was a great show — Not my favorite of the lineup back then, but still great. Nice and serialized. And Spider-Man Unlimited was pretty cool too, picking up KIND OF where it left off but ignoring the Mary Jane questions.

      The MTV Spider-Man animated series, too, was interesting … but in a different way.

      And now we have Spectacular Spider-Man, by Greg Weisman creator of Gargoyles. Also really cool.

           by ClintJCL July 18th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    13. Perché questo Web site non hanno altro supporto di lingue?

           by sprachcaffe November 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    14. Spiacenti, non. Solo le bandiere che vedi in fondo alla destra del menu. : (

           by ideonexus November 29th, 2008 at 11:58 am

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