« Logical Fallacies in the Unscientific what’s the harm? Web Site
Science Etcetera, Mercuryday 20080813 »
h1

Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080812

August 12th, 2008
  • Check out NASA’s 12-TET Rover, a future extraterrestrial and terrestrial explorer that changes its shape to crawl, climb, and squeeze through any terrain (633MB downloadable animation of it available here) (HT BMF).

    • 12-TET Rover

    12-TET Rover
    Credit: NASA
  • Nikon has collected its awesome microscopy photos into one online gallery (HT BMF).
  • The CherryPal computer uses only 2 watts of energy, has no moving parts, and works almost entirely through softwares kept online… It’s sounds amazing and plausible, but the site design and paypal for payments make me wonder if it’s on the up and up (HT Clint).
  • National Geographic has a comprehensive article on industrial meat, which explains why you should continue eating mass quantities of beef if you enjoy eating endocrine-disrupting dioxins, prions that cause Mad-Cow Disease, animal-tissue infections and disease, and lots and lots of cow poop. Yum!
  • MAKE has the tech-specs on the lensless $10 microscope.

    • Lensless Microscope

    Lensless Microscope
    Credit: Make
  • This public service announcement brought to you by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA): Babies need time on their tummies to develop motor skills.
  • Capsaicin is the chemical that makes hot peppers spicy-hot, and apparently they induce thermogenesis in cells converting their energy into actual heat too.
  • Physics proves the granny-shot is best for basketball freethrows. Take THAT all my grade-school peers who made fun of me!!! Thpppt! On you! Thpppt! I say!
  • Animation of Sea Ice Concentration:



    • One comment to “Science Etcetera, Marsday 20080812”

    1. Ryan, I think that only helps prove why they should have made fun of you. You see, making shots is not the problem, it is how you make the shot. When I say that, I mean, if the “normal way” to shoot a foul shot is harder, then the people who get amazing at foul shots while doing that are clearly far superior than those who do the easy method of foul shotting.

      They get to say they can take a harder shot and make it in just as easy as someone who is doing the easy shot!
      Same with the granny style of bowling. :P

      Clearly, you were just copping out in grade school,and thus, haha, Ryan does the granny shot.

           by DJ Nicko August 12th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Leave a Comment