Science Links
From quite a few of you (but Glen Haag first), a link to an article about the rediscovery of the rat squirrel, which was believed to be extinct. For eleven million years.As it turns out, though, it's just been living in Laos. And if you've been saving a joke about Laos for the last twenty years, waiting for just the right time to use it, your golden moment has arrived.
The link: http://tinyurl.com/hst4q.
DQ reader James Watson sent in a link to an excellent general interest science site:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/.
Here's his comment:
It's essentially the news site for the American Association for the Advancement of Science which publishes the journal Science (which along with Nature are essentially the two highest profile scientific journals).
Sirius sent me a link to a brief but thought-provoking article on the demise of Easter Island. Speculative, to a significant degree, but very interesting. Here's the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11747815/.
Via Robot Wisdom Weblog, a link to a video of the new model of the Honda Asimo robot. Amazingly, it runs, and quite well. Here's the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1210345008392050115.
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