Weekend News Nuggets (Amazing science discoveries!)

CEH ^ | October 24, 2009

[GodGunsGuts]

Oct 24, 2009 — Here are a dozen notable news reports from the past week bearing on evolution, design and amazing discoveries.

1. Red rover, rat rover: Live Science posted a cool video about research lab at Northwestern University that is imitating rats’ whiskers to improve robot sensing. Rat whiskers are very sensitive. Neurons in the base of the follicle convey a great deal of information to...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[smokingfrog]

A vegetarian spider?

That’s interesting.

[Fichori]

Democrats have very sensitive whiskers?

Oh, these are ratus rats, never mind.

[GodGunsGuts]

Cool video:

http://creationsafaris.com/crev200910.htm#rotw20091024

I purchased it a short time ago, and was absolutely blown away by the powerful Christian message and the stunningly beautiful cinematography. Two thumbs up!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[GodGunsGuts]

:o)

PS Thanks again for resending the link to your FR formatter!

[arthurus]

I believe this thing came from China and there is already a record of Chinese entrepreneurs assembling new products out of found parts.

[count-your-change]

Biological glues have been of interest for a long time, specifically animals like barnacles that can glue themselves onto a variety of surfaces under water with great longterm strength.

And now it's being explored how flies, etc. can cling to and release from even the most highly polished surfaces.

Brilliant!

[Berlin_Freeper]

rocket science and rednecks

[ElectricStrawberry]

Scientists discoveries.....12 more.

Creationists discoveries.....zero.