04:41 pm - Link of the week: cool science
LiveScience is a little bit like Popular Science, with streaming video. Mostly a science news portal with some of its own content, gee-whiz features like Top Ten lists (from "animal senses humans don't have" to "Leonardo DaVinci's best ideas"), a great array of headlines, divided into several content areas: Animal Domain, Health Sci-Tech, Forces of Nature, Environment, Technology, Science of Fiction, History,and Strange News. Each subject area also has its own blog, featuring shorter pieces and links.
There's a video of a trip aboard the Virgin Galactic, which will eventually be the world's first tourism space-plane. An amazing image gallery of microscopic sea life from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the southeastern U.S. And all sorts of other wierd, new, and otherwise interesting stuff.
Of course, there are a lot of ads. And a store. But it's not quite as overtly franchised as Discovery.com. Probably, a lot of the information isn't particularly immediately useful to the average person. But, if you're a person (like me) who thought that the first zero-gee surgery or the discovery of a new kangaroo species is really exciting (for five minutes) - or if you have to turn in an essay about current events in science by Monday - then it's worth taking a look.
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