It’s time again for Tuesday Science News!
- The US State Department is funding development of suitcase wireless network kits to establish shadow networks in countries with repressive regimes that have figured out how to cut off communication.
- In case you missed out on Google’s Les Paul doodle, you can still find it. As a warning, it is very addictive, so wait until you get home from work. (Via cnet News)
- Ultrasound is changing the human sex ratio by allowing people in some backwards countries (like China and India) to abort girls. Welcome to the world of high tech sexism.
- The Tennessee Academy of Science has come out in favor of teaching evolution in biology classes and keeping creationism out of our schools.
- Solar flares or Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) have the potential for causing issues for our power grid. Fortunately a relatively massive CME last week, the type that could blow transformers, was ejected from the side of the sun opposite the earth.
- A boat made completely out of recycled plastics recently set sail from Taiwan. Way to put the junk back in junk.*
- Some recent finds from Georgia (the Central Asian nation) suggest that the genus Homo may have started in Asia, not Africa. Don’t worry, this doesn’t change the fact that our species started in Africa (not the Garden of Eden).
Since there wasn’t any feedback about Tuesday Science News last week, I’ll keep it rolling with 5 – 10 articles each week. In case someone wants to fault me for including technology with the science news, don’t forget that technology is just applied science.
*For those who didn’t get the joke just Google “junk ship”