June 2008
41 posts
A 7-part answer to the question "What is science?"... →
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/page/sciencecourse
Nothing much here about the individual scientists and who did what when - just the wonder of science itself.
From the kids section:
Kids should do scientific experiments too, for the same reason that they should write stories as well as reading them or do sport as well as watching it. Experiments encourage kids to be curious, creative and...
“… in the next thirty or forty years a Negro can also achieve the same...”
– - Robert F Kennedy in 1961. It was a truly remarkable statement then, and with Obama as presidential candidate now, almost right. It shows how far race relations have come in 47 years.
Note that some have tried to fiddle the date it was said and the words to make it seem like an exact prediction 40...
In less than 7 years, Mercedes-Benz plans to ditch... →
Nice.
“May I be the first to express my condolences to the families of all those who...”
– In Memoriam « The Ordinary Potato
Mapping Cocoa Genes to Safeguard Chocolate Supply →
- important work!
Pay Dirt: Martian Soil Fit for Earthly Life:... →
The CandyFab Project - The Revolution will be... →
Existing Drug Reverses a Form of Mental... →
Genuine petition to name a sewage plant after... →
A fitting memorial.
Anaesthetics may increase post-surgical pain →
Fun Size Countries: The Insane Histories of the... →
Fish make rapid comeback in the world's largest... →
How smart is the octopus? - By Carl Zimmer - Slate... →
Using real snails to deliver e-mail. →
I love it :-)
Inside the Solar Hydrogen House: No More Power or... →
Woman receives $177 million power bill →
Village re-elects dead mayor →
Popular guy!
More seratonin unfairness: having it lets you... →
My Serotonin Level Is Low.
It’s so unfair.
Nanotech to Regrow Cartilage and Soothe Aching... →
Speaking as someone with very dodgy knees, I say YES PLEASE!
Schools, Facing Tight Budgets, Leave Gifted... →
Prince Charles pays off royal debt ... 350 years... →
Spell Check Poem
(Reportedly nominated for a Pullet Surprise)
Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea, It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word And weight for it two say, Weather eye and wring oar write It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long, And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.
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Happily married couple find they have been... →
Seems someone forged some divorce documents in an attempt to avoid just the sort of legal challenge now in hand.
Meet miracle baby who was born twice - Health -... →
The Letter under the Pond →
I recently removed a pond myself. In my case, the pond builder had made me regret it simply by using sleel-reinforced concrete for the base. This letter, however, is VERY funny :-)
Don't Talk to Him Before He's Had His Coffee
gknauss:
One of my favorite scenes in Star Wars is in the conference room on the Death Star, where Grand Moff Tarkin is getting a status update from his lieutenants on the fate of the stolen battlestation plans. When I was nine, it was cool because Darth Vader used the Force to strangle an uppity bureaucrat. Now that I’m 40, it’s cool now because it almost exactly resembles every corporate...
Twin, separated at birth, sues for mix-up →