Monday Science Links
This week's science:
- First, Pamela at Star Stryder looks at the New Science article implying our observing it has killed the universe. Don't worry, apparently that's not exactly what the paper says.
- Kristjan at Pro-science is proud of a countrywoman who can slow down light. No, really. She can.
- Stefan and Bee have turned Back Reaction into an advent calendar, with a plot a day. Their first one is, appropriately for a Canadian winter, the phase diagram of water. As they mention, "Trying to understand these different phases of ice is a topic still under investigation, both by experiment and by theory".
- Anne-Marie at Pondering Pikaia talks about how aplomado falcons catch birds flushed by maned wolves - a fine example of the interdependency of life and the cleverness of some animals.
- And, for the season (whatever you call it), Michael at Paleoblog has gift ideas galore from books and posters to shirts and a honest-to-gosh dino-dig.
Labels: links, science, sciencelinks
2 Comments:
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At 4:44 PM, December 04, 2007
traumador had this to say...
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At 9:12 AM, December 05, 2007
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Thanks for the advertising that light speed article... It just helped me totally win an arguement with science dogmatists...
"the speed of light is a CONSTANT... always!" they claimed.
i tried to steer them to thinking of it as constant from our limited perspective of the universe (we've never taken a speed radar gun a few light years out to see how fast it's going after a bit of travel)...
after 2 weeks of intense debate BAM i win.
thank you!
Glad to be of service!
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