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Science Etcetera, Venusday 20081107

Posted in Science Etcetera on November 7th, 2008
  • A refrigerator-sized tank of ammonia burned up in the atmosphere recently, which came from the ISS (HT Carolyn)

    • ISS

    ISS
  • Basic Science FAIL (HT TGAW)
  • Point the SkyScout Personal Planetarium at the sky and it will give you an audio tour of what you are looking at (HT clint).
  • Dr. Richard Dawkins Totally Looks Like Emma Watson (HT clint)
  • Interesting site chronicles science misconceptions in K-6 textbooks (HT clint).
  • Stephen Hawking tattoo (HT clint).
  • NASA has launched the Global Climate Change website, which dittoheads will take as more evidence that the Global Warming conspiracy is more insidiously entrenched in our society than previously thought (HT Carolyn).

    • Global Climate Change

    Global Climate Change
  • Australia, plans to build a multibillion-dollar ‘brain city’ to attract 4500 elite scientists, which reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation (HT clint).
  • Awesome fable about a physics exam… it’s an urban legend, but it’s a cool one (HT BMF).
  • Augh! Phthalates, found in plastics, may shrink Mr. Happy. Nooooo!!!! (HT clint).
  • Greenpeace has a flickr photostream (HT clint).
  • Old Jetta Commercial Mentions the Coelacanth:

    • 2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Venusday 20081107”

    1. wow, it’s the [mostly] “Clint and Carolyn” edition of Science Etcetera :)

           by ClintJCL November 7th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    2. Man, I love the FAIL blog. It routinely makes me laugh so hard that I cry.

      I had already forgotten about this Computer Monitor Mirror one, so now I got to enjoy it a second time.

           by Vicky November 7th, 2008 at 11:01 am

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