This Is Your Money on Hormones
What makes Wall Street traders go crazy? Why, raging hormones, of course (and, yes, we're talking male traders here, which most are): http://www.economist.com/node/21530111
New Gene Baby
Harvard genetics professor George Church on reading and writing our own DNA (video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14919539
It's a Bird! It's a Plane!
Physicist Brian Cox on Cern's finding of a subatomic particle that might have traveled faster than light (video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15034852
Look! Skywalker!
What? An X-Wing Fighter on the USS Long Island? An AT-ST at the landing at Normandy? A Battle Droid fought alongside Pancho Villa? Apparently so!: http://www.laboiteverte.fr/star-wars-integre-a-des-photos-anciennes/
The New Incredible Journey
Five years after she disappeared from her home in Boulder, Colorado, Willow the calico cat is found ... in Manhattan (and, yes, it really is she)!: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/nyregion/willow-lost-cat-from-colorado-resurfaces-in-manhattan.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=cat%20colorado&st=cse
Hard Rock
Images of Vesta, the second-most-massive object in the asteroid belt: (video): http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1020
Sunrise/Sunrise, Sunset/Sunset
There really IS a planet that gets a double sunrise and sunset, and NASA just found it: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-292&cid=release_2010-292&msource=11292&tr=y&auid=9506424
Water, Water Everywhere
Let your pen be a water molecule traveling through this maze we call life!: http://www.jabebo.com/WaterCycleset.htm
Things to Do ~ Sept. 24
A list of the California museums participating in Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day, Sept. 24 (free admission): http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-search/?state=California
N.B., You'll need a special ticket, which you can download from that page (it's on the right side). One ticket per household, and each is good for two free admissions.
N.B., You'll need a special ticket, which you can download from that page (it's on the right side). One ticket per household, and each is good for two free admissions.
To Infinity and Beyond!
NASA has put together an amazing, interactive, 3D environment called "Eyes on the Universe" ~ better than Xbox and Nintendo DS!: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/index.html
SOMEone Will Want It
The answer to an overly consumerist society (we knew there had to be one): http://www.utne.com/The-Sweet-Pursuit/The-100-Percent-Off-Store.aspx
7 Billion on Halloween
Here's a scary story for Halloween! United Nations demographers have pinpointed October 31 as the date on which we will be welcoming the 7 billionth person to this planet: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article2412108.ece
We ♡ N-M-Ls!
Why do we love animals so much? It's all in our heads: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/01/140116969/human-brain-responds-to-animals-cute-or-creepy
