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Scientists put penguin in a wetsuit

Friday, April 25th, 2008

This little guy is Pierre, an African penguin living at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences.
He’s 25 years old, pretty hoary for a penguin, and is unfortunately starting to go bald around the tushie.
Penguins don’t have blubber and need their feathers to keep  warm, so instead of sitting around watching Pierre shiver after every swim, biologists […]

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Science myth busted: cellphone egg cooker

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Snopes.com is a great place to visit for anyone with a reasonable amount of curiosity about strange hoaxes, weird myths and the odd piece of junk science.
This being a weird science blog, the idea isn’t to help spread junk science, but to demonstrate how genuine science can be used to debunk the dubious stuff.
Today’s busted […]

Filed under: Funny, Sci Myths, Tech

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