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Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20080806

August 6th, 2008
  • A Dutch school teacher, volunteering for the galaxyzoo.org project, has found a cosmic ghost, illuminated gas possible left over from a dead quasar.

    • Hannys Voorwerp

    Hanny’s Voorwerp
    Credit: Dan Smith, Peter Herbert, Matt Jarvis & the ING
  • Banning smoking in public places cut heart attack rates by 17 percent in Scotland.
  • “Astronomers now know that Zodiacal light represents reflected sunlight shining on scattered space debris clustered most densely near the sun,” thanks to Queen guitarist Brian May, who published his doctoral thesis recently.
  • Photos of 5,000-year-old rock art.

    • Ketley Crag Northumberland

    Ketley Crag Northumberland
    Credit: English Heritage
  • A better measure of School success is how much students learn rather than what they learn.
  • A form of mass psychosis caused the Dancing Plague of 1518, when 400 people danced convulsively until many of them dropped dead.
  • Take a ride on a train that doesn’t stop:



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