Saturday, May 3, 2008

Random Bytes


Carbon Footprint Of Best Conserving Americans Is Still Double Global Average
ScienceDaily.com
Apr. 29, 2008

A Great Pox’s Greatest Feat: Staying Alive

By Marlene Zuk; NYTimes.com, April 29, 2008

'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History
ScienceDaily.com
Apr. 30, 2008

Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer
By Randolph Schmid; May 2, 2008

Coffee May Protect Against Breast Cancer, Study Shows
ScienceDaily.com
Apr. 25, 2008

So You Want To Be a Scientologist
by Bonnie Goldstein; Slate.com; April 30, 2008

Lesbos islanders dispute gay name
By Malcolm Brabant
BBC News.com
May 1, 2008

Texas man trying to cash $360 billion check arrested
Yahoo.com; May 2, 2008

Ancient "Nutcracker Man" Challenges Ideas on Evolution of Human Diet
April 30, 2008
NSF.gov

3 comments:

Jaime said...

Whoa - the carbon footprint story is pretty interesting - and, it will fit into my class nicely. Thanks for doing the legwork on that one for me!

The Lesbos story might also work for my class....

And, how cool is the nutcracker story? It's going to be interesting to see how people start discussing the robusts now.

Sue said...

Yeah on the robustus stuff...tho' it means I have to rework a few exam questions! Damn science, and it's ability to rethink things!!

Jaime said...

That's why Ben Stein has won me over, and I'm heading into the creationist camp.

Then I don't have to worry about messy details like robustus, because they're not in my human lineage. Why should I, therefore, give a crap?

I can spend my time on much more concrete, logical pursuits. Like explaining dragons from the Bible.

It's all so simple now.