Today is Nikola Tesla’s birthday - the inventor of the 20th century.

A beautiful Martian sunset

Richard Adams has an interesting take on environmentalism as religion (scientists and socialists using history to predict the future — while abandoning the scientific method in the process).

Dean Kamen’s new invention — prosthetic arms

Someday we may all want to replace our arms, eyes, ears (and tounges?).

The Frogmander — an amphibian missing link discovered.

Today is Rachel Carson’s birthday.  May her destructive junk science be noted in history.

We watched this thoughtful lecture last night from Ken Miller on Intelligent Design.  On one hand, I can’t believe people are still pushing creationism (under a new name, ID). On the other, the politicization of science encourages this.

There was one point in the question and answer session where an old communist “World Can’t Wait” moonbat tries to attack the political right to score some cheap points, trying to liken America today to 1933 Germany. Ken Miller bats him right back down with perhaps his best thoughts of the lecture.

When Bill O’Reilly (and his copycats) pronounce “Secular Progressives” as the enemy, it is extremely damaging to the cause of freedom. They are literally handing over the province of science to the political left and the Al Gore’s of the world couldn’t be happier. There is a symbiotic parasitic relationship between the exploitative left and the religious right that often becomes clear, especially in lectures like this one. They both need each other to survive and together they do all too much damage.

Sounds awful but looks awesome: the visual patterns formed by sound waves of different frequencies.

Water that isn’t really water

Within a year, if Moshe Kai Cavalin keeps up his grades and completes the rest of his requirements, he hopes to transfer from his two-year program at East Los Angeles College to a prestigious four-year school and study astrophysics.

Holy smokes! The article claims his parents don’t push him much, but this quote from the father with respect to the son recently breaking an arm in the pursuit of martial arts makes me wonder:“Finals are coming and everything and he cannot play with both hands. He’ll just try to play with the right hand,” he says. “I don’t know how his grade’s going to be in piano. It worries me a bit.”

Juuuust kidding!

Obvious: Einstein was not religious.

A New Approach to Treating Alzheimer’s:

Earlier this year, neurosurgeon Andres Lozano published a startling finding. He was testing deep-brain stimulation, in which electrical current is delivered directly to the brain, as a treatment for obesity. The patient’s weight showed little change, but his memory improved significantly. Lozano has now formed a company to commercialize the technique as an Alzheimer’s therapy, and he’s testing it in six patients in the early stages of the disease.

Space elevator test run from LiftPort.com

Rape is not a laughing matter, that is, unless you are a seal.

When animals rape…

h/t Instapundit

Ben Stein has gone completely nuts.

The Forgotten X Prize - The Arcon X Prize in Genomics.

Do brain cells look look a lot like the universe (according to a simulation performed recently by a group of astrophysicists)? A neat comparison.

Some Sunday thoughts on how far-off future generations will look at evolution.

Sight restored to a blind man — with gene therapy (via Drudge)

From ScienCentral: Recent tests indicate caffeine may help get rid of sun damaged skin cells before they become cancerous.
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Coffee has been making a rebound in recent years as more benefits of caffeine are discovered. Still, everything in moderation…

Testing miracle gauze — nanoparticles helping to clot gushing wounds.

Spencer Wells is back in the news for his ground-breaking National Genographic Project.

Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests.

I bought one of the kits for Kejda, but she says she’d prefer to have her grandfather use the kit this summer.

An electric car for the middle class?

Sorting out the Mormon mess in Texas — with DNA.

Patrick Moore keeps fighting the good fight.

RageBoy copy cat with a twist? Ah all these RageBoys with their religions they go nuts over!

Prediction: “An ice age cometh”

ht instapundit

According to a survey of 740 British mums to be, a high-calorie diet is more likely to lead to a baby boy in nine months’ time.

This is how the religious left sees people who disagree. A poorly done satire - “F*ck the Earth Day”

Is the Large Hadron Collider going to create a black hole and swallow us all?

Regrowing body parts for the troops - using stem cells.

World’s first bionic eye installed.

Some day we’ll all want a pair of these. Press this button to see in infrared. Press this button for night-vision. Press this button to zoom in. Press this button to save a photo.

On Global Temperatures - Why do they keep changing the numbers?