Oh no… Cedric died. : erv. Cedric was the poster boy for Devil Facial Tumor Disease, a transmissible cancer spread through bites to the face. He also did a lot to change our view of tazzies, turning them into the cutie pies we all know and love.
Archive of posts filed under the Science category.
This One Thing is Not Like the Others.
Rummaging for a Final Theory: Scientific American. The problem with the thinking behind this article, indeed in the thinking behind the Standard Model, is that it misses one salient fact revealed by Einstein’s General Relativity. Namely, that gravity is not a force like the classical three. One thing General Relativity points out is that mass [...]
Cover Your Ass
Shades of “Gray Literature”: How Much IPCC Reform Is Needed?: Scientific American. The story is about mistakes the IPCC has committed. Mistakes global warming skeptics have taken advantage of in their eagerness to prove the proposition the Earth’s climate is warming up is wrong. A tactic used by creationists in their attempts to prove the [...]
More Complicated Than You Think
North American continent is a layer cake, scientists discover. What got my attention is the finding that oceanic crust is subducting under the North American craton, that mass of continental material that forms the core of the North American continent. All else is stuff that’s been added to the craton over the last billion years [...]
Older Than We Thought
Arctic rocks offer new glimpse of primitive Earth. The rocks discovered are the oldest known, going back 4.45 to 4.55 billion years ago. That is older than rocks found in Australia or the Canadian Shield. What does it mean for us. It means that at least part of Eartht’s crust could predate the collision of [...]
