Monthly Archives: February 2016

Links for February 12, 2016

Gravitational Waves

http://www.ligo.org/index.php

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=137628

http://www.ligo.org/news/harassment-statement.php

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/gravitational-waves-einstein-s-ripples-spacetime-spotted-first-time

http://www.livescience.com/53694-sound-of-merging-black-holes.html

African American Contributors to NASA

http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/9135/20140316/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician.htm

http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Katherine_Johnson

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/johnson-katherine-g-1918

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8gJqKyIGhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxVM5S_gbA&index=2&list=PLCwE4GdJdVRLOEyW4PhypNnZIJbYLRTVd

http://www.americaspace.com/?p=13505

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/jemison-dr-mae-c-1956

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-47.html

http://www.drmae.com/about-dr-mae-97

Meteorite

http://www.livescience.com/53666-meteorite-did-not-kill-man-in-india-experts.html

Links for 2-5-16

Zika

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/02/first-zika-virus-case-in-united-states-sexually-transmitted-texas

CDC Fetal Alcohol

http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/Fasd/infographic.html#graphic2(Original Infographic)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/02/03/the-cdcs-incredibly-condescending-warning-to-young-women/

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6504a6.htm

http://jezebel.com/an-unrealistic-warning-from-the-cdc-to-women-dont-drin-1756823580

http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2013/10000/Association_Between_Maternal_Alcohol_Consumption.15.aspx

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022347678804491

Pare/Pregnancy Worries

https://books.google.com/books/about/On_Monsters_and_Marvels.html?id=3Dbi-LCvCgkC

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56717/12-ways-monsters-were-made-according-medieval-doctor

http://pictorial.jezebel.com/why-are-we-still-so-paranoid-about-what-pregnant-women-1753255026

Poisoned Alcohol

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5975605/alcohol-prohibition-poison

http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/assets/4868198/german3.pdf(Wheeler/Edwards article)

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25110631?seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents(Our Essay in Extermination)

Tarantula

http://news.discovery.com/animals/johnny-cash-tarantula-one-of-14-new-spiders-160204.htm

http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6264

http://www.livescience.com/53616-tarantula-named-for-johnny-cash.html

Greek Sculpture-Not a Laptop

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1958958-some-people-are-saying-this-ancient-greek-sculpture-depicts-a-laptop/

Babylonian Cuneiform-Algebra

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0128/Were-ancient-Babylonian-astronomers-math-whizzes-Check-out-these-tablets

http://gizmodo.com/this-babylonian-astronomy-text-changes-history-1755458324

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/babylonian-astronomers-geometry-jupiters-position-03598.html

http://www.livescience.com/53518-babylonians-tracked-jupiter-with-fancy-math.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/math-whizzes-ancient-babylon-figured-out-forerunner-calculus

Radio Show Links 1-29-15

Zebras:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145679Visual Study with great slides

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/5/736

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4535/full/ncomms4535.html

http://news.discovery.com/animals/zebra-stripes-120209.htm

http://www.sciencealert.com/zebra-stripes-aren-t-used-for-camouflage-or-mate-selection-study-finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/apr/02/why-do-zebras-have-stripes-scientists-have-the-answer

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=309&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=text

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton#Heredity_and_eugenics

Zika

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/01/27/npr-zika-outbreak-unlikely-united-states

http://www.nature.com/news/brazil-s-surge-in-small-headed-babies-questioned-by-report-1.19259

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457916000083

http://www.virology.ws/2016/01/28/zika-virus/

Flint-Lead

http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=603006017073088016126081095114120087031020067072039011023111028119127023120086098064002029052121121116050103028123020097088127053017086038086010082087023074094121027055071024115067109088102016099099122090026077094022109024004074030065089110031071119&EXT=pdf

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

Flat Earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCA8HofWsxcFlat Earth Rap

https://soundcloud.com/drtyson/flat-to-factResponse

https://youtu.be/XHBZkek8OSUTyson on Nightly Show (Mic Drop)

https://cut2thetruth.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/why-we-know-the-earth-is-round-flat-earthers-debunked-exploring-science-ep-ii/