scientists

Poetry Hut Blog Saturday SCIENCE! edition:

1. — “Notice the way she easily uses the language of the brain (”neural routes,” “receptive pathways”) to describe the function of fiction.” —

Wired Magazine is having an epitaph contest for the Mars Phoenix Lander, which is slowly dying on the red planet as the sun filled "days" are decreasing and unable to charge its solar cells.

–I am tired of being sick.  When I finally unsicken up, I’m laminating myself to prevent the incursion of any other crap.

–Is even floating the idea of having a great big show wedding for your kid so that your boss can score some political points really that cool?  I don’t know.  I don’t like it, though.

Al Gore points out that our mistreatment of the earth may cause mudslides:

It isn't a science fiction story, it just sounds like one. Scientists will fire up a massive particle accelerator on Wednesday aiming to discover the hypothetical 'God particle', aka Higgs Boson.

High tech and wireless

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

The big guy’s day is today. Will this confirm or deny his existence?

Atkinson Public Relations pokes a hole in the argument that if grocers where allowed to sell wine they would but independent wine stores out of business: