It’s Okay To Be Smart - Weekly Highlights
Welcome, welcome, one and all … it’s time for the post-Turkey Day highlight reel:
- UC Davis protestors were pepper sprayed viciously while peacefully protesting, and we are reminded that when it comes to these deterrents, the danger is in the dose (it’s dangerous).
- The Russians launched a Mars probe with possibly the best satellite name ever: Phobos-Grunt. But it did not pass GO, and did not collect 200 rubles. Currently it sits dead in Earth orbit, waiting to fall back to Earth, and spelling disaster for Russian space science.
- Fear not, though! NASA successfully launched Curiosity, our next and most advanced Mars rover. It is currently en route to our red neighbor, and you can find out more about it in this post.
- Lab-grown meat is kind of realistic (in the distant future), and kind of disgusting to think about.
- Oh, I’m going to Mars along with Curiosity (and a few hundred thousand other people)
- A nifty little atomic structure found a weakness in the Ebola virus, and we might have found a way to neutralize it. Oh, and this structure of the 60S ribosome subunit looks really neat-o.
- Leonardo da Vinci had a helluva To Do List.
- Timescale matters. This is what 800,000 years of carbon dioxide looks like to the climate.
- A particular kind of stem cell treatment may reverse heart damage and save large numbers of lives.
- This is how far our radio and TV broadcasts have gotten into deep space. Sorry in advance for Snooki, do not kill me with fire, aliens.
- Female birth control pill inexplicably linked to prostate cancer … in men.
- This squid uses some amazing principles of optical physics to become essentially invisible in deep water.
- The science of food porn, or why shiny bacon looks so good on TV.
- The amazing animal behavior and human psychology behind the wondrous video: A murmuration of starlings.
That’s all for now. I guarantee you’ll find something else you love if you check the archive!
Stay curious …
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