Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080822
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Just as the Eiffel Tower was designed to optimize the flow of stress throughout its structures, trees have evolved a design to optimize the flow of water from the ground into the atmosphere. This Constructural Theory is not to be confused with Intelligent Design.
Eiffel Tower as a Tree
The Douglas-fir, one of the tallest tree species on Earth, finally stops growing taller because it can’t pull water any higher.
Entangled photons “communicate” at 10,000 times the speed of light.
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) will search the sky for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) with four telescopes sporting 1.4-gigapixel cameras, and a one-pentabyte database.
Those human-verification images of words websites require to foil spambots could be used to identify words in antique texts.
Optical Character-Recognition Software Makes Mistakes
Credit: AAAS
Cats and dogs can get along if cats are in the home first.
A Massachusetts man was arrested and his home ransacked for practicing Chemistry.
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mark Sykes held a debate about Pluto’s fate.
Clever WWF billboard time-lapsed:
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Eiffel Tower as a Tree |
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Optical Character-Recognition Software Makes Mistakes Credit: AAAS |
