Clipmarks | Kauaiguy's 'science' clips

Putting Garbage to Work with Worm Poop

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:44:28 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Worm Poop's the answer!

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: science, tech

Power Station On Your Roof

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:18:28 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Best wind turbine design on market.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: science, technology

Design and the Elastic Mind

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:13:49 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/118/

Clip Source: www.moma.org

Pre- and post-visit materials for educators

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Tags: design, art, science, astthetics, function, form

Hydrogen Cars

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:46:35 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: A look at what's in the wings at major auto manufactures.

Clip Source: www.hydrogencarsnow.com

Tags: technology, science, future, cars

UnChristian Thing To Do

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:17:00 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: More on the moral dialectic between what Jesus would do if Jesus were a Christian..

Clip Source: www.associatedcontent.com

Fertility Drugs - the Most Selfish, UnChristian Thing to Do

Taking fertility drugs is the most selfish, unchristian thing to do. It is selfish because there are so many kids in this world that need a home so people should adopt rather than using fertility drugs to have kids. The world would be so much better if all kids had a home with loving parents. There would be less criminals in the world if kids had a good environment and loving parents that help them grow into good human beings.

I am not a Christian. Christians are against stem cell use for research. How come Christians aren't against fertility drugs and other procedures that people use to help them procreate? If Christians are against using science to help cure diseases and other things then why are they not against using science in procreating. Don't they believe procreation is God's work?

Tags: religion, morality, politics, people

Antartic Ice Sheet on Verge of Collapse

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:11:03 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Scientists fear that the entire Wilkins shelf, more than 6,000 square miles, could be next.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet on Verge of Collapse

Satellite images reveal that a large chunk of the Wilkins ice shelf fell into the ocean sometime around the end of February, suggesting that climate change could be causing it to disintegrate faster than scientists had predicted.

Tags: environment, global warming, science

Replacing Petroleum with Switchgrass Ethanol

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:33:35 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: The joint USDA-ARS and Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources study also found greenhouse gas emissions from cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass were 94 percent lower than estimated greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline production.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Biofuel: Major Net Energy Gain From Switchgrass-based Ethanol

ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2008) — Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Tags: science, fuel, gasoline, ethanol

Diamond Star Thrills Astronomers

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:18:43 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Diamond star thrills astronomers

The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Tags: science, astronomy, cosmology

Wondering Why Your Eyesight Is So Poor?

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:23:49 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: It's because your brain relies too heavily on one mode of seeing..

Clip Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org

New Form of Vision Discovered

The eyes have it.
Scientists have discovered a new form of vision--the ability to see circularly polarized light--in the eyes of mantis shrimp, a reef-dwelling crustacean.

Tags: nature, animals, science, biology, evolution

More on our species' likely demise

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:42:45 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Dump on Mother Nature and She'll dump you.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: nature, biology, science

NASA Photos From Orbit

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:34:58 GMT

clipped by: Kauaiguy
clipper's remarks: Some decent photos sent to me by a friend.

Clip Source: www.texasjim.com

A friend's granddaughter who works for NASA sent us these pictures - I am assuming the last picture is Hurricane Dean - I am going to drop her a note to make sure.

Tags: space, nasa, science, earth