Welcome to a very special episode of BlossomThe Monitor.
This week: Rounding up of the best stories from the AAAS annual meeting, questioning social networks, and an open call to viewers-- help us rename this show!
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More details on the AAAS stories after the jump.
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AAAS Roundup:
The inventor of the so-called “hundred dollar laptop” says the price is holding at 187 bucks, but could come down to 50 by 2011 thanks to Moore’s Law.
A plan to curb global warming by putting excess carbon dioxide in 2 kilometer-long sausage-shaped bags at the bottom of the ocean was deemed…NOT INSANE.
Obama and Clinton sent reps to establish their pro-science bona-fides, while McCain and Huckabee… didn’t.
The math that describes phase changes in physics – like water freezing into ice – also works for describing brain state changes, like going from waking to sleeping.
AAAS president David Baltimore dropped a bombshell, saying there was quote “little hope” of ever finding a vaccine for AIDS.
Excess stress hormones caused by growing up in poverty can literally impair kids’ brains, causing language and memory deficits.
Your Blackberry costs more, per pound of hardware, than an Apache helicopter.
Climate change may cause bloodbaths in the Arctic and Antarctic, as sharks migrate into warmer polar waters and go to town on the wildlife there.
A researcher from Arizona thinks that too much science funding is controlled by uninformed voters, and science would be better off without so much… democracy getting in the way.
