2009 March | REALscience

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environment, Video on 03 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Disney Launches Earth-friendly Studio, movie, Earth Day, April 22

Disney’s goal is going to plant one tree for every ticket sold. Disney will oversee the planting of the trees in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, which is considered the most endangered rain forest in the world. Today, only 7 percent of the Atlantic Forest remains. Disney is committed to ensuring...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Greenovation, Inventions, Video, Wind on 03 27th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Kites for Clean Energy

Dr. Saul Griffith unveils the invention his company Makani Power has been working on at this year’s TED Talk. Spoiler alert…it requires giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, Podcast on 03 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Lucy’s Luck

Kelly Frederick with Lucy The the most famous hominid ever found just returned to her home in Ethiopia after a two-year trip to the U.S. She spent five months at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, where she wowed over 100,000 visitors with her tiny size and bipedal nature. She left many scratching...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, The Brain, Video on 03 25th, 2009 | 13 Comments

HowCast: Become a Medical Test Subject

Looking for a way to make extra money and help further medical research? Try becoming a medical test subject and give yourself over to the warm embrace of science where you can make up to $50,000 a year. Before starting, go here: BioTrax.com and here… GPGC.net to see if you qualify.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Engineering, Featured Articles, Greenovation, Inventions, Video on 03 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Bri-Cycle

Cleveland Clinic engineer Brian Sauer, a life-long inventer, built a new battery-powered vehicle, called the Bri-cycle, that looks something you’d see in a science fiction series, is turning heads. Sauer even drove his bricycle in the snow this winter, hitting a max speed of 22 mph on compact...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Geology, Video on 03 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments

Mt. Redoubt Blows its Top

Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano’s first emissions in nearly 20 years. Communities north of Anchorage are being showered by the dust.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Math, Video on 03 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Pi Gal

Kurt Godden is a General Motors in an Operations Research scientist with a daughter who loves pi. Not the kind with berries or cream. But the number that starts with 3.14….and goes and goes and goes. Here she recites the first 500 numbers of pi but she memorized the first 2,000 digits. Let’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Video on 03 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Japanese Robots Hit the Catwalk

From IT labs to photo grabs, Japanese humanoids will soon be strutting their hard- and soft-wares on the fashion catwalk.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, RawAudio, Space on 03 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Our Crowded Universe: Astronomer Alan Boss on Extrasolar Planets

The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets Astronomer Alan Boss raced through Seattle the other day, like a life-bringing comet in search of a new planet. He stopped by Town Hall and shared the last ten years of planet hunting with a packed house. Highlights: Since 1996, over 340 new planets...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Environment, Featured Articles, Greenovation, SciClips on 03 16th, 2009 | No Comments

11 Degrees of Separation

Scientists just met in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the state of science surrounding the climate. The prognosis–we’re in serious trouble unless we change course, fast. The news was pretty grim for the most part, with each bit of science raising dire prediction after dire prediction. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, SciClips on 03 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Unknown Greenhouse Gases Pose New Climate Risk

In the last six months scientists have become aware of two new greenhouse gases that could add to a growing problem that is heating our atmosphere and changing the climate. Last fall, nitrogen trifluoride–a chemical used in making liquid crystal flat screen TVs–began showing up in greater...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Politics, SciClips, Science Policy on 03 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Stalled Senate Science Confirmations Move Forward

After a month of waiting, President Obama’s science adviser Dr. John Holdren and his choice for the top administrator at NOAA, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, were voted out of the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee today. Speculations swirled about why the nominations were being held. Apparently...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Engineering, Featured Articles, Greenovation, Video on 03 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Hamster Power

Courtesy of Zhong Lin Wang Could hamsters help solve the world’s energy crisis? Probably not, but a hamster wearing a power-generating jacket is doing its own small part to provide a new and renewable source of electricity. And using the same nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics, Science Policy, Video on 03 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment

President Obama okays Embryonic Stem Cells for Research

In an anticipated move, President Barack Obama reversed George W. Bush’s executive order, banning the use of embryonic stem cells in research. For eight years, scientists have been struggling to make advances while using weak stem cell lines, developed before August 2001. Monday’s decision...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, SciClips on 03 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Why the Seas Rise

Courtesy of Seattle Graphics, Created by David L Coplan As the planet gets warmer, heating makes water expand and glaciers and ice sheets melt. That’s what makes sea levels rise. A group of climate scientists are meeting this week in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the latest science surrounding...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Bioethics, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 03 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Animal Research Under Fire

Scientists who do research on animals are being harassed, having their test subjects stolen, their families threatened, homes flooded and cars bombed. Even administrators who aren’t doing direct animal research are being targeted by extreme animal activists. The first arrests under the Animal...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, RawAudio, Space on 03 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment

An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium and popular physicist, dropped by Seattle’s Town Hall recently to talk about the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. It’s the subject of his new book, The Pluto Files. The 2006 decision...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., The Brain, Video on 03 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Chemistry of Love

Dr. Helen Fisher, the author of Why Him, Why Her talks about the power of love–from a chemical point of view. The chemicals dopamine, serotonin, estrogen, and testosterone and are powerful forces in attracting a mate. Does the opposites-attract idea hold up under scientific scrutiny? Or is like...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Video on 03 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Taking Out the Tech Trash

E-cycling old computers, cell phones and other electronics has never been easier. Check out the list of Web sites to find the best option for you. And, help keep toxic gadgets out of landfills. Turtle Wings My Green Electronics Earth 911 Freecycle Flickr photo courtesy of snarltooth

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Backyard Science, Climate Change, SciClips on 03 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Phenological Fun

Courtesy of Univsersity Corporation for Atmospheric Research Don’t just read about climate change, get outside and watch it in action. And, help scientists gather data about seasonal pattern changes in many different plant species. Join the Project BudBurst volunteer network to monitor climate...

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