Exploring the Infinite
http://kradeleet.com/?p=77 From the page: “Rudy (Rucker) is starting to think all this is more than just a nifty coincidence, that mathematics has just happened to stumble on a method of creating patterns that look just like so many natural patterns. In his latest post, he makes the suggestion that “God” could be a deterministic non-reversible class four paratime metaphysical cellular
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21031911-5003402,00.html FAST-growing weeds had evolved over a few generations to adapt to climate change, which could signal the start of an “evolution explosion” in response to global warming, US scientists said today.
via Union of Concerned Scientists From the site: “In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference
via Space.com This three-dimensional map offers a first look at the web-like large-scale distribution of dark matter, an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe’s mass. The map reveals a loose network of dark matter filaments, gradually collapsing under gravity and growing clumpier over time. Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Massey (Caltech)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2701723&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 From the page: “Some of anthropology’s greatest scientific treasures rest in the National Museums of Kenya. But they may soon become all but invisible if Christian fundamentalists get their way.”
Researchers are hoping to discover why certain types of fractal images can actually sooth the viewer. The Register-Guard wrote this interesting article about the different types of studies being done across multiple professions in an attempt to understand how the brain processes fractal imagery.
via Engadget From the page: Posing as a flip-phone wannabe, this handheld germ-eliminating light reportedly eradicates “99.99-percent of E-Coli, staphylococcus, salmonella, and germs that cause the flu and the common cold.”
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Hybrids_in_the_Universe_999.html Scientists re-think their theories on gamma-ray bursts – the most powerful cosmic explosions. Are stars that produce hybrid bursts inherently different from the kind that make supernovae? “This is brand new territory; we have no theories to guide us,” said Dr. Neil Gehrels of NASA GSFC.
http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2006/11/inconvenient-truth-squeezed-from.html From the article: “The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation’s leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters. One of those supporters is Exxon-Mobil.”
http://news.sawf.org/Health/28140.aspx Memories are held in our brains because certain proteins serve as anchors, holding other proteins in place to strengthen synapses, which are connections between nerve cells.
http://www.valdosta.edu/~cbarnbau/astro_demos/index.html Some cool animations that teach about seasons, moon phases, gravity, tides, stellar evolution and more.
http://www.physics.sjsu.edu/tomley/Demos.htm Interactive Demonstrations – Learn about Lunar Phases, Coordinate Conversions, Planck Spectrum, Energy Levels, Kepler’s Laws, Evolution of a Star Cluster and many more!
Protein Sculptures
Typorganism is a great interactive website dealing with type and presenting it as a living organizm that evolves. Check it out.