Alas, GeekSpeak was preempted this week for a Syrian update from NPR and President Oboma. Here is what we would have covered in 7min.
Welcome to the society for things cut in half. We have made much progress, but there are still many things not cut in half.
A new Shark that walks with it’s fins! (underwater)
At 460 miles long, the chasm bests the Grand Canyon (277 long)
Depth 2,600 feet — half that of the Grand Canyon (Colorado River).
Led by Jonathan Bamber, a geographer at the University of Bristol
decades of radar imagery, much of it from
NASA
The corporate philanthropy goes beyond underwriting for pubcasting to
Prof Steven Benner, of the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology in Gainesville, US.
Reported his research at the Goldschmidt Meeting in Florence, Italy.
Building blocks of life: Molecules – RNA, DNA and proteins.
