In the interest of keeping our intermittently-published but ever-popular Science Saturday feature alive, here are a few science-related items which we've rounded up since our most recent Science Saturday article. Following closely on the heels of the 2012 general election political season, each of these items, coincidentally enough, includes at least its own slight political twist:
1) Scientists identify another possible planet where Earthlings might be able to escape, once greedheads like the Koch Brothers finally succeed in destroying our planet's habitat:
2) Some scientific experimental video raw data worthy of note. Capuchin Monkeys don't like being screwed over, same as humans, we guess:
If monkeys reject unequal pay, shouldn't "Walmart "associates", we ask?
A couple of links from Scientific American, which also overlap into the political realm:
3) Like the honey badger, "math has shown itself to be quite the badass of late":
Yep. "There are many complicated reasons why people react with 'math anxiety,' but one of them might be the fact that math is just so damned unyielding, the enemy of wishful thinking, dashing our most cherished hopes with its cold hard facts. And is it sorry? It is not! Like the infamous honey badger, math don’t care. Math don’t give a s$%."
4) "U.S. voters must push candidates and elected officials to express their views on the major science questions facing the nation or risk losing out to those countries with reality-based policies," says SA contributor Shawn Lawrence Otto:
The larger question of course remains unanswered: "What has turned so many Americans against science—the very tool that has transformed the quality and quantity of their lives?"
5) And last but not least, here's yet another encouraging science-related article, with a further, even more practical political twist, picking up where the previous article left off:
Tantalizing prospective development (in theory, at least). But knowing our Republican "friends" as we do, we suppose (sadly) that we won't be holding our breath, awaiting an early revised edition of the GOP Big Book.
That's it, folks. The floor's open for your ever-savvy comments, WCF Science Nuts!
