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Bad Science & All time classic creationist pwnage: Jul 3, 8:17am 7 reviews evolution, science, research, right-wing-wackos, peer-review
http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/all-time-classic-creationist-pwnage; Richard Lenski is my new hero. I love this man. What a pity his erudite and detailed explanation is wasted on a fool.

Colliding with natures best-kept secrets - CNN.com: May 9, 10:16am 1 review physics, research, string-theory, cern, hadron-collider
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/09/physics.nima/index.html?iref=topnews; From the page: "Arkani-Hamed always had a great love of the natural world as a child. Though his parents are also physicists, he considers it his "act of teenage rebellion to become one too," as his mother wanted him to become a doctor. advertisement He remembers being impressed around age 14 that Newton's laws could enable him to calculate such things as the minimum speed that a space shuttle had to attain to escape the Earth's gravitational field. He'd wondered whether scientists had reached the figure of 11 kilometers per second by trial and error, shooting things in the air until the right speed emerged, until he could calculate it himself. "When I figured out how to do that for myself, I just thought it was just the coolest thing, that little old me, scratching away on my piece of paper, could figure this out," he said. "From about 13 or 14, I knew that this is what I wanted to do.""

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Study sheds light on spider sex: May 2, 6:46am 2 reviews science, research, spiders, uvb-light, animal-comminucation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7378196.stm; Next step: decoding spider semaphore pick-up lines.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Colossal squid goes under knife: Apr 30, 9:04am 2 reviews science, research, eyes, vision, giant-squid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7374297.stm; "These are truly amazing eyes," commented Eric Warrant from the University of Lund in Sweden, an expert on animal vision who is at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa in Wellington to take part in the dissection. "In the collapsed state we see here, they measure 25cm across; but in the living animal they are probably larger, up to around 30 cm." With a diameter larger than a football, these would help the fearsome hunters locate prey in the dark Southern Ocean depths. The pupils alone are about 8cm (3in) across "These are without doubt the largest eyes that have ever been studied, and probably among the largest eyes that have existed during the history of the animal kingdom," Professor Warrant concluded." An amazing find!

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Darwins first draft goes online: Apr 17, 9:26am 3 reviews evolution, science, research, learning, darwin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7351980.stm; From the page: ""His papers reveal how immensely detailed his researches were. The family has always wanted Darwin's papers and manuscripts to be available to anyone who wants to read them," said Dr van Wyhe. "The fact that everyone around the world can now see them on the web is simply fantastic. "Charles Darwin is one of the most influential scientists in history. The collection of his papers now online is extremely important and therefore very exciting." Now, if only those who think they know what Darwin said would read these...but then again, since they refuse to learn anything about science, they would not understand anyway. And yes, for that, they do earn my contempt.

Influensan f�ds i Asien och d�r i Sydamerika: Apr 16, 2:29pm 0 review research, flu, vaccines, influenza
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=597&a=761556&rss=1400

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080410/tuk-unlocking-the-internet-of-the-futu…: Apr 10, 4:23am 8 reviews research, future-internet, the-grid
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080410/tuk-unlocking-the-internet-of-the-f...; From the page: "That network of linked computers - connected by superfast fibre-optic cable and combining together to act as one giant super-computer - is the Grid and, one day, it won't just be for scientists. We'll all be connected to it." I hope it will exercise our bodies for us too :-)

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Alice loss would waste �25m: Apr 3, 9:28am 2 reviews physics, research, stupidity, lack-of-funding, funding-issues
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7324021.stm; From the page: "UK Science Minister Ian Pearson, who was visiting the Daresbury laboratory, told BBC News that he was committed to the future of the laboratories but would not step in to guarantee funding for individual projects. "It isn't for government to make decisions on what is the best science - it is really for the individual scientific communities to do that," he said." Wow, excellent politician speak, Mr Minister. How the hell do you expect scientists to make these decisions without results, which cannot be obtained without doing experiments, which cannot be done without funding?! Plea to all voters everywhere: stop electing people who paid someone else to dissect their frogs. We need people who actually understand science and technology in government. Argh!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tail key for gecko acrobatics: Mar 18, 10:14am 2 reviews zoology, research, aerodynamics, gecko
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7300879.stm; Just last night my son asked me why lizards need their tails (in the context of a conversation about how a mouse's tail, such as Reepacheep's, would not grow back if cut off), and now I can tell him. We have adorable geckos that live in our garden and patrol the windows outside the kitchen; they do a wonderful job eating waterbugs and other such creatures.