Friday photo, links and video (16th July 2010)
The end-of-the-week round-up of those open tabs…
But first the photo of the week, the rings of Saturn in the distance behind Lutetia photographed in Rosetta’s flyby of Lutetia. For more details see the Rosetta blog.
OK, now those links:
- Australian anti-vaccine group’s harassment of parents covered in ABC news.
- From PLoS Medicine, What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the Polio Vaccination Campaign? This lead to the resurgence of polio in this part of the world a few years ago.
- Ben Goldacre on a repository for news.
- Personal genomics company 23andMe presents their take on that longevity paper on their blog, The Spittoon.
- On media and forgetting how science works. (Blog post.)
- Compare those comets and asteroids (warning: large image). Lutetia (see illustration) is a big one!
- Sweet animal story: Mouse Sleeps With Scientist, Scientist Thrilled.
And a video, from NASA, Interstellar Clouds And Dark Nebulae (great viewing):
Other articles in Code for life:
What famous writer do you write like?
Describe your fantasy institute
Honey’s anti-bacterial properties found?
Temperature-induced hearing loss
Boney lumps, linkage analysis and whole genome sequencing
2 Responses to “Friday photo, links and video (16th July 2010)”
Looks like the Rosetta and the data it gathers could change our view of comets, away from that of comets being made of ice. Maybe some of the data they find will push us away from the gravity theory more to the electric theory. That is if people are open to ideas outside existing dogma with all its quandaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYzEy4GlcQI
The electric universe is alternative theory to that of gravity based astrophysics, in which electricity takes its right full domain at the head of the table. It explains the jets of plasma in galactic photos as well as the shapes of galaxies, it takes into account the cosmic magnetic fields and doesn’t need a whopping 70% unexplained dark matter.
Anyway something to think about.
Derek,
You have been using the comments sections of people’s blogs at sciblogs to plug your interests for a long time now and people have been patient here with you about it.
If your ‘electric universe’ notion, cold fusion, etc. are things that you wish to write about, I suggest you go to wordpress.com and set up your own blog.