Daily Archives: January 21st, 2008

Update on Space Roaches!

You may remember that in October I reported the birth of roaches in space–now there’s an update:
“VORONEZH, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than ‘terrestrial’ ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday.
The research team has been monitoring the [...]

MLK Day Musings

I thought I would post a link back to a timely essay from Shark-Fu about MLK, Shirley Chisholm, and how she honors them both:
Pondering Nuclear Empowerment
Here’s the documentary that ABB was writing about, BTW.  Note that there are free lesson plans and other materials for teachers!