21 September, 2007
Get a Mental Evaluation ?
Try this questionnaire which is of the nature "answer 20 questions and we will identify your personality type".
06 September, 2007
An Asteroid Shower Lasting 100 Million Years
Some scientists believe that a collision between two asteroids, one 37 miles wide and the other 106 miles wide, some 160 million years caused so many fragments that the Earth (and the Moon) suffered "double" the overall rate of asteroid impacts for the next 100 million years ! One of those pieces caused the Chicxulub Crater, associated with the demise of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
08 July, 2007
The World's Worst Jobs in Science
Popular Science's listing of the 10 worst jobs in Science makes for interesting reading.
For example, did you know that "a vortex of plastic the size of Texas clogs the North Pacific, choking fish and birds; construction is destroying coastal habitats" or "Dirty diapers make up less than 2 percent of landfills, while paper accounts for 45 percent".
For example, did you know that "a vortex of plastic the size of Texas clogs the North Pacific, choking fish and birds; construction is destroying coastal habitats" or "Dirty diapers make up less than 2 percent of landfills, while paper accounts for 45 percent".