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Science Etcetera, Moonday 20090608

Posted in Science Etcetera on June 8th, 2009
  • Was that a human or a bot you just faced off against in Unreal? How do we deal with discrimination against people on the basis of them being virtual? These are some of the fascinating issues tackled in H+ Magazine’s Summer 2009 issue. Make’s magazine of transhumanism that is fantastically designed and free.

    • H+ Magazine

    H+ Magazine
  • A Google Earth tour of North Korea reveals Kim Jong-il’s excesses and miles of graves from the famines his rulership has brought.
  • Isaac Newton wasn’t just a brilliant physicist and mathematician, he was also a crime fighter working as head of the Royal Mint.
  • “Fabricating data is a heinous scientific sin. It steers people down paths that do not lead anywhere and discourages them from following those that do,” warns an Economist article, which also indicates 10-percent of scientists fabricate data.
  • Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium just keeps growing and growing and growing (HT gaugeyagee).

    • science tattoos

    science tattoos
    Credit: jylcat
  • Modern humans appeared about 200,000 years ago, but tool-use and culture appear about 75,000 years ago. A new study suggests population densities of one person per 1,170 square miles were required to spurn the evolutionary shift to civilization.
  • Quasicrystals are minerals that have a symmetrical pattern, but does not repeat. They have been produced in labs and in simulation, but now researchers have found one in nature; although, they have yet to figure out how it was formed.
  • Key Democrats like Gene Green (D-TX) and John Dingell (D-MI) are working to slip amendments into the Climate Change Bill that would allow automakers and the oil industry to undermine the bill’s purpose.
  • Turning Gravity Inside Out



    • 2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Moonday 20090608”

    1. I had a laugh at Kim Jong Il’s water slide, but the mass graves brought me back to Earth. Pretty sad that we will go to great lengths to fabricate a reason to enter a country like Iraq, but let a place like North Korea continue to test long range missiles and nuclear weapons at the expense of its people.

           by John June 8th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    2. I wonder how much of that fabricated data gets past the peer review process.

           by ClintJCL June 8th, 2009 at 7:05 am

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