Monday Science Links

Your Monday science links:

• In It's all in a name Brendan at Social Sciences asks "Do long names with good-sounding adjectives correspond with non-democratic governments?" He has numbers!
  


• In Mira the wonderful,Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy tells us about a star that's pretty amazing - and shows us a picture that evokes Yeats' "terrible beauty".


• In Excess Babbage, Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics, inspired by a new nano-chip device, tells us about 19th century English mathematician and engineer Charles Babbage and his famed difference engine - the amazing steam-powered computer.


• In Alien Desires John Pieret at Thoughts in a Haystack tells us about the planet Vulcan, and an important message about the nature of science.


• In Giants and Dwarfs with Barium Pamela Gay at Star Stryder tells us about "a very serious paper that did some very difficult research" and in the process demonstrates "where the incremental advances in science are coming from".

Enjoy the learning!