Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20071226

December 26th, 2007

X-mas is over, now please be nice and recycle your trees.

Yet another dimension to what it takes to sustain the human race, 40,000 Lbs of Materials must be mined for each person in the US every year.

I doubt my insurance would cover it, but scientists are using Particle Accelerators to Fight Cancer.

At over $100 a license, I won’t be getting a copy for myself, but luckily, Geometer’s sketpad has some online java demonstrations of what its software can do.

5-D Cube

Likewise, the Box 2D Physics Engine, also has a nifty Flash Demonstration. I want to see more of this stuff.

We’ve all heard of Absolute Zero, –273.15 °C, the point where if it got any colder matter would ceace to exist, but is there an Absolute Hot?

If you missed it this year, here’s a chance next year to celebrate the holidays with some citizen science activism, the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count runs 12/14 to 01/05.