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Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080828

August 28th, 2008
  • Planting just three rows of trees around a Poultry plant significantly reduces dust, odors, and neighbor complaints.

    • Rows of Trees Reduce Poultry Plant Odors

    Rows of Trees Reduce Poultry Plant Odors
    Credit: George W. Malone, University of Delaware.
  • Even seaweeds get sunburns.
  • Amazon has reported a 6,000 percent increase in sales of electric bikes over last year.
  • Amid the technological advances that allowed for so many swimming records to be broken in Beijing this year was a swimming pool a meter deeper than previous Olympics.
  • Protopedia offers 3-D imaging of molecules in organic chemistry (in Java, so it makes my system hang-up sometimes watching it).

    • Hemoglobin

    Hemoglobin
    Credit: Proteopedia
  • First Pluto gets demoted, now astronomers want brown dwarfs degraded from being stars to something else, as they appear to be “stellar miscarriages.”
  • A Bush Administration sneak-attack on the Endangered Species Act would allow Agencies to regulate themselves without oversight.
  • Who did Big Plastic have to pay off to get the EPA to approve BPAs in Baby Bottles?!?!?!
  • Group Behavior in an Elevator (HT oranchak):



    • 12 comments to “Science Etcetera, Jupiterday 20080828”

    1. Eh
      Endagered Species Act should just be done awhile. The idea is a decent one, but it seems to just really be a way for the government to seize and use land how they deem, preventing actual people from doing the same because of (random bird no one cares about it) lives on the land and it is endagered (or at least, low numbers in that area) so must be protected. Pfft.

           by DJ Nicko August 29th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    2. Somehow I missed this video the first time. HILARIOUS! Watched it twice and laughed the whole way through.

           by Vicky September 17th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    3. Oh, I did too. And now FF3 wont play it. Looks like the video problems I’ve had with every Ff2 or FF3 installation on this computer and my computer at work have returned. Fortunately I can run FF2 and FF3 at the same time… but it’s easier to use IE. Yup, worked fine in IE! (grumbles at firefox jumping the shark in the last year) (at least ff3 is damn fast and hitting ‘j’ to go to the next item in my google reader no longer takes as long as 2 seconds!)

           by ClintJCL September 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    4. That was hilarious! They would have had to throw my video out… I usually stand in a different direction from everyone anyway…. if i’m in the front, i’m not putting my back to those fuckers! they could have knives!

      ^^ Tried to post this comment from IE, and was blocked by the WP Spam Free plugin!

           by ClintJCL September 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    5. FireFox occasionally stops playing flash videos for me too. IE suffers lags trying to display this blog for me (this was before the spam-free). Google Chrome is nice, but buggy. I can’t win!

      I’m intend to try some other spam-blocking products. There’s one that uses cookies that looks promising, but then people with cookies disabled won’t be able to comment. : )

           by ideonexus September 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    6. People with cookies disabled get what they deserve. If they don’t trust you to store a cookie of their own information that they type on their own computer - why make things easier for them? :)

           by ClintJCL September 17th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    7. Spam-free just blocked my post comment on another post, eve though there was nothing spammy about it. Not even a link.

           by Chriggy September 17th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    8. I’ve just disabled spam-free. I’ll see what else I can find.

           by ideonexus September 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    9. Hmm… Apparently it’s not wp spam free causing the problem but another plugin conflicting with it. I’ll disable a few and see what happens.

           by ideonexus September 17th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    10. Okay. New spam-filter installed. This one has no javascript. Lemme know if there are any problems.

           by Ryan Somma September 17th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    11. If I come across any problems, will do.

           by Chriggy September 17th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    12. What spam filter did you end up going with? I had spam-free going for a week or so. When I took it off (for same reason as you) I noticed my usual number of daily spam comments dropped from 50 to maybe 1. I think what ever spam bot was hitting me may have written off my site as un-postable and decided to stop bothering me.

           by Sour Swinger September 17th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

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