Anisotropic Perspectives

From the Phoenix Mars Lander…
“We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. “We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time [...]

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Nicholas Carr comments on something I think we’ve all noticed.  Excellent read.
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

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YouTube videos about every known element.  Fun.
http://www.periodicvideos.com

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Olivia Judson asks us to move beyond the obsession with Darwin.
Darwin was an amazing man, and the principal founder of evolutionary biology. But his was the first major statement on the subject, not the last. Calling evolutionary biology “Darwinism,” and evolution by natural selection “Darwinian” evolution, is like calling aeronautical engineering “Wrightism,” and fixed-wing aircraft [...]

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Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, prepared some disturbing remarks on the (not so bright) future of Medicare.
When I was born, [health care] was four percent of the economy. When my son was born it had doubled to eight percent, when my first Grandson was born two years ago, it had doubled again [...]

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