Science Etcetera, Moonday 20090615

Posted in Science Etcetera on June 15th, 2009

Have a moment of science Zen at Princeton’s 2009 Art of Science Gallery.

2009 Art of Science Gallery

HB-SIB is a solar-powered aircraft that will fly across the Atlantic, and then around the world, ascending and charging its batteries by day and descending on the stored energy at night.

Interesting untapped alternative energy source: microbial metabolism on the ocean floor with an explanation of how to harness electricity from it.

Is it more environmentally friendly to compost yard waste or put it in a public landfill where the methane will be burned off or captured?

Breathing Earth is an impressive flash visualization of population growth and CO2 emissions, which I’ve covered before, but found it making the blog-rounds again.

Breathing Earth

Fish raised in hatcheries as a strategy for fortifying wild populations may interfere with the genetic strength of wild populations with deleterious results.

Wyoming has had 14 between 1970 and 2005, and New York has had 124,849 according to a map of abortion rates in the U.S.

A fuel leak has postponed the shuttle Endeavor launch.

Film of bike tricks shot by Thomas Edison in 1899