“Sifting climate facts from speculation” – New Scientist

Via theĀ New Scientist:

IT WAS a dramatic declaration: glaciers across much of the Himalayas may be gone by 2035. When New Scientist heard this comment from a leading Indian glaciologist, we reported it. That was in 1999. The claim later appeared in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent report – and it turns out that our article is the primary published source.

The science deserves to be taken more seriously than this.

Shocking Science 2008 | The smell of fear

Having exposed volunteers to the whiff of sweat from skydivers, researchers concluded that humans can smell fear

via Shocking Science 2008 | Science | guardian.co.uk .

“The effect of resonance on rice” [sic]

An interesting demonstration of standing waves. The Digg poster suggests the effect is on the rice, but I rather think the waves are in the plywood over the speaker and the rice just illustrates the nodes.

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