Here’s a new nanotechnology that absorbs oil, not water, and can be reused. Looks awesome.
Also, robots.
From Sept 2001:
Here’s Wikipedia on McLean v. Arkansas:
A lawsuit was filed in theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by various parents, religious groups and organizations, biologists, and others who argued that the Arkansas state law known as the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act (Act 590), which mandated the teaching [...]
Ben Dry has created a visual representation of the evolution of the changes in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (you know, our Most Sacred Holy Bible!) throughout the six editions.
This is what Ben says about it:
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as [...]
The reptiles are trying to confuse us by working towards giving birth to live offspring:
A variety of Australian skink – like snake but with four tiny legs – is slowly starting abandon egg laying and beginning to give birth to live offspring like a mammal does.
Skinks in the mountainous region of New South Wales have [...]
Over at the Psychology Today blog, The Scientific Fundamentalist, Satoshi Kanazawa is getting a lot of attention for a really odd argument. The title basically sums it up, “If Barack Obama Is Christian, Michael Jackson Was White.”
Honestly, not much good can follow a title like that, but let’s move on. Kanazawa, an evolutionary [...]
A Japanese company has created the smallest and safest plastic-to-oil conversion machine:
I found this interesting. An article from the Boston Globe about the relationship between moral feelings and disgust.
This is the argument that some behavioral scientists have begun to make: That a significant slice of morality can be explained by our innate feelings of disgust. A growing number of provocative and clever studies appear [...]
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