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California Science Center Need to charge your phone? Take a walk! Charge it with your body.
Source: www.npr.org
The next time your batteries need a recharge, try taking a walk. A tiny Cleveland startup is trying to capture the renewable energy of your footsteps — no outlet required. Its device is called the Personal Energy Generator, or PEG, and it's about the size of a flashlight.
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[FREE EVENT] Science Matters - The Medicalization of Race
Sat, Nov 21, 2009 - 1PM
Source: losangeles.going.com
The Medicalization of Race Moderated by Tavis Smiley Saturday, November 21, 2009, from 1:00-2:30 p.m. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE! The Human Genome Project shows that 99.9 percent of the human genome is the same in everyone regardless of race. Based on this...
California Science Center 1,111 Fans! Woohoo! It just keeps on growing... :)
California Science Center Everything looks cooler from space.
Source: www.wired.com
> Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent,
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“If listing the lizard as a threatened species means people will take a
little more time to think these things through, that’s a good thing.”
Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com
In the latest chapter in a 16-year legal battle to keep the flat-tailed horned lizard safe from urban encroachment, a federal court judge in Arizona has reinstated a 1993 proposal to list the creature as a threatened species. U.S. District...
California Science Center A peek inside the America I AM exhibit...!
California Science Center Have you ever heard of tree "mummies"? This tree "mummy" lived from 1334 to 1513.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
"Mummified" trees—remarkably preserved, but not petrified, for centuries—that date back to the time of the Vikings have been found in a Norwegian forest, scientists announced in October 2009.This ...
California Science Center Cute! The babies weigh just a few grams now, but when they become adults in 20 years or so, they will weigh about 250 pounds.
Source: news.yahoo.com
The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.
Kirsten I so can't wait to go and see The America I AM exhibit.
California Science Center Visit America I AM to see the only touring print of the Declaration of Independence that dates to July 4, 1776 - it's one of only 26 known to exist!!
Tim Daugherty "America I AM" exhibit now playing, looks good.
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Cool job: Pretend Astronaut
Application deadline: Nov 5
ESA - Human Spaceflight and Exploration - Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission - ima
Source: www.esa.int
Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration space mission...
California Science Center This spider is 140 million years old!
Source: www.wired.com
The world's oldest known spider web has been discovered on a beach in Sussex, England, trapped inside an ancient chunk of amber. Scientists found the
