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Science Etcetera, Moonday 20080825

August 25th, 2008
  • How do the four cells of an embryo know to grow into our top and bottom halves?

    • Graphic Explaining how DNA Controls Growth

    Graphic Explaining how DNA Controls Growth
    Credit: NASA
  • Another reason to avoid monosodium glutamate (MSG) it’s linked to obesity.
  • Video games provide life-long learning as surgeons who play video games were found to be 27 percent faster at advanced surgical procedures and made 37 percent fewer errors than those who didn’t.
  • Animals with big brains have greater capacity to change their behaviors, making them evolve faster.
  • Alkyphenols, which enter the environment through the breakdown of clear plastics, are a key suspect in lobster shell disease.

    • This drooping lobster is missing limbs and painted with dark spots, the tell-tale signs of shell disease.

    This drooping lobster is missing limbs and
    painted with dark spots, the
    tell-tale signs of shell disease.
    Credit: Joseph Caputo/MBL
  • The Hubble space telescope has orbited the Earth 100,000 times.
  • A bubble of dark matter could enable faster than light travel, which is essentially what the Enterprise does to achieve warp speed on Star Trek.
  • White Americans will no longer be the majority by 2042.
  • Cornstarch on a Subwoofer:



    • One comment to “Science Etcetera, Moonday 20080825”

    1. You will pry my MSG from my cold, dead hands.

           by chriggy August 25th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

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