Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Sciencey quick hits

The silicon used in solar cells is quickly getting cheaper. The price may drop 43% in the next year.

Hope fights depression and meditation helps with AIDS. What is the world coming to?

The NYT has an interesting article about science and science journalism progress. The NYT also thinks you should be drinking box wine.

Short women with long legs are supposed to be the most attractive to men, blah, blah, stuff it.

What you may be doing when you read those letters to prove you're a person or reCAPTCHA is the best transcription service ever seen.

Our ability to count seems to be built in even when we don't have a language to do it with.

It appears that rates of activity have been roughly constant during the period that obesity has been on the rise in this country, so don't yell about the couch potato kids playing video games and blogging. Food is the problems.

The stem cells in menstrual blood are being used to help revitalize damaged limbs in mice. Women are, in fact, goddesses who can perform miracles.

Is the pendulum swinging back to the idea of psychedelic drugs as useful in treating mental illness and are the "good" and bad effects of marijuana caused by two different chemicals?

Massage has measurable benefits on muscle recovery time after workouts and injury. Duh.

Scientists have replicated a key step in photosynthesis that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen and could be very important for the hydrogen energy industry.

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