Jurassic Park was right about ‘Raptors’
Jurassic Park had the right ideas about “raptor” dinosaurs they were big, they were bad, and they roamed in packs
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Archive for October, 2007
The Largest Wind Farm on the Planet Will Be in uhhh… South Dakota?
It would be eight times larger than the biggest wind farm in the world, a 735-megawatt FPL Energy facility with 421 turbines stretching across three Texas counties.
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This man wants to control the Internet. And you should let him
He and his colleagues have created a theory that has revealed some simple yet powerful ways to accelerate the flow of information. Vastly accelerate the flow: Doyle and his colleagues can now blast the entire text of all the books in the library of Congress across the United States in 15 minutes.
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5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen
Our culture is full of tales of the undead walking the Earth, from our religions to our comic books. But, some sort of zombie apocalypse isn’t actually possible, right?
Right?
Guys?
Actually, yes. It’s quite possible. Here’s five ways it could happen, according to science.
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Longest Living Animal? Clam — 400 Years Old — Found In Icelandic Waters
A clam dredged from Icelandic waters had lived for 400 years - is this the longest-lived animal known to science?
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Scientists create most powerful antimatter beam ever
Scientists recently announced they have fired the most powerful antimatter beam ever created. Comprised of positrons (antimatter electrons) emitted from a large plate and focused into a beam, the emission strength exceeds the previous record held by a laboratory in Munich, Germany.
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Safer Gene Therapy? Hope For Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and MS
Researchers at the Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research
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The Science Education Myth
Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support. The authors of the report, the Urban Institute’s Hal Salzman and Georgetown University professor Lindsay Lowell, show that math, science, and reading test scores at the primary and secondary level have increased..
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Caution: Do not print this page or the Universe will fill up with paper!
Wow. An amazing new fact I could only learn from a creationist! 10^262 cannot even be written! But, thanks to the *real-ultimate power* of the internets, we can actually see what this number looks like! (Warning, don
t print this web page on your printer - it will use all the paper in the universe and […]
Why Do Autumn Leaves Bother to Turn Red?
Soils may dictate the array of fall colours as much as the trees rooted in them.
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