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Science Etcetera, Marsday 20081125

Posted in Science Etcetera on November 25th, 2008
  • Pygmy tarsiers are primates with huge eyes that cannot move, so they have heads that can turn 180 degrees. Thought extinct for 85 years, they have been found in a cloud forest in Indonesia.

    • Pygmy Tarsier

    Pygmy Tarsier
    Credit: Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Texas A&M University
  • It has always been assumed that farms gave way to villages, but an 11,000-year-old temple appears to have been built by hunter-gatherers.
  • 10 Years of the ISS in Pictures
  • A man suffering from AIDS appears to have been cured by a bone marrow transplant.
  • A 4-D microscope (the fourth dimension being time) allows researchers to study chemical reactions on the molecular level. There are also video demonstrations online, like one of DNA unfolding.

    • 4-D electron microscopy

    4-D electron microscopy
    Credit: Nano Letters; images and diagram produced at Caltech
  • One gram of cocaine costs four meters of rainforest.
  • Discovery Channel’s new Time Warp series has lots of great videos online that put science into slow-motion and time-lapse video.
  • Sleep helps remember a complex task thought forgotten
  • Maglev Wind Turbine



    • 3 comments to “Science Etcetera, Marsday 20081125”

    1. I’m digging the wind turbine videos. When do we get to see them fight?

      -BMF

           by BMF November 25th, 2008 at 9:23 am

    2. Thanks for not riding the media’s jock by calling the Tarsier a Furby look alike. The Tarsier lacks a beak and IR port on it’s head. :)

           by John November 25th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

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