Saturday, January 14, 2012

Stuff below the fold

Clean up after you use something.

who will clean up all that space debris?

Picture:Jianping Fan, Guangzhou, China
picture source ClassBrain

Dr. Kaku discusses the problem HERE


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Man on a Mission: the Second generation space traveler


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StartsWithABANG!BLOG discusses supernovas..,




Every star that ever lived gets two chances to end their lives in this most spectacular of fashions. The hottest, bluest, most massive stars that are born burn through their nuclear fuel incredibly rapidly, accumulating a core of heavy metals just one million years after they're first born....But what about the stars that don't get there? This is the vast majority of stars; they are the 99%, and so are we!


ah, but he goes on to tell us, there are such things as second chances.

And lots of lovely photos there.
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Medical news of the day: Chinese herb might cure your hangover.
he Hovenia dulcis tree is also known as the Japanese raisin tree. and usually was used for liver disease.

no, I don't think it grows this far south.
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From WIRED:An article on the inbreeding of Superheroes:

actually, the article finds lots of breeding but not a lot of genetic inbreeding, and includes this illustration:


actually, I'm not into X men myself, so I'll take his word for it.

what is interesting is that the kids don't necessarily inherit the superpowers of their parents, the same problem we saw in the Incredibles,where the kids' superpowers were different from their parents.

But I do wonder who Hellboy's twins will take after, him or their mother?? Since they are only in the film, presumably we'll have to wait to see if they ever get around to making a Hellboy3.

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