http://grandunifiedweekly.com The weekly science news roundup for the rest of us Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:06:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week on Grand Unified Weekly: A jellyfish-like hydrozoan is the only immortal creature known to science; plus, it's invading all Earth's oceans. Did you know there's a shortage of isotopes needed to diagnose and treat cancer? Well there is, and scientists may be able to stop getting them ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/xrRZHzJdUbw/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-11/ This week on Grand Unified Weekly: New "green" explosives take eco-friendly somewhere the Sierra Club never intended, China is offering cash bounties for scientists to come work within its borders, and how agricultural runoff into the Nile is reversing an earlier man-made disaster and boosting fish stocks as a ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/f2DbgQWpg2k/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-10/ This week on Grand Unified Weekly: Scientists figure out the strength of gravity in the mushroom kingdom, James Hansen = Jor-El, and Borat's cousin wants us not to abort babies with autism, even if we can detect them, which we will be able too, real soon. Awesome theme song Comrade ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/Ctw6SHLeKpA/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-9/ This week: The world's smallest robot hand can't wait to be inside you. The origins of life -- the self-replicating RNA molecule that started it all -- recreated for the first time? And Wall Street bubbles might be caused by testosterone and maternal effects. Awesome theme song Comrade Elvis courtesy ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/pdBC3oF3ne4/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-8/ This week: Bees on Blow are like people on blow, which explains why humans get addicted to pesticides. Science proves: Axe Body Spray really works! But not for the reasons you think it does. Spirit and Opportunity: Hot Damn, but these are two tough little mars-exploring robots -- we ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/7BgwkWJ_flo/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-7/ This week: In the matchup between Dark Energy and gravity, Dark Energy is winning. Medical names for ailments, no matter how mundane, make them more frightening. All those science fiction movies you watched as a kid (ahem) are right: Space makes everything ten times scarier and more lethal. Awesome theme ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/gNfyUE2nnoQ/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-6/ Hankerin' to download Grand Unified Weekly to your mobile device? Then subscribe to SlateV on iTunes. Like the tendency toward 'runaway parental investment' that the urbanization of the human population of spaceship Earth has occasioned, Episode 5 of GUW has no negative feedback loops limiting the degree of awesome that it ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/4VyZfbKoPj8/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-5/ Recession-Busting Special: Sign up for our mailing list and get a new episode of Grand Unified Weekly in your inbox EVERY WEEK! Just put your email address in this email address-shaped hole and we'll do the rest: Like an old friend who struck it rich by bringing clean drinking water ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/ql5eoUcC8VM/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-4/ Like the vampire-eating supervampires in Blade II, a soul-sucking nudibranch that feeds on the sun-sucking organelles of plants has proved that being an animal doesn't mean that you can't be born with plant genes that somehow got mixed up in your nuclear DNA zillions of years ago, or that keeping ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/CqgA1KVK-gU/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-3-plantnimal-discovered-nasa-the-office-why-being-awake-is-bad-for-you/ The second installment of the weekly science news roundup for the rest of us is burrowing into the collective unconscious like one of those mind-control worms from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan — catch it at SlateV. In an age when even Gawker has figured out how awful most ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GUWRecentEpisodes/~3/9XZjf-NeeeA/ http://grandunifiedweekly.com/episode-2-supercomputer-smackdown-viral-videos-roomba-driving-fruit-flies/