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2008 SCIENCE NEWS OF THE YEAR
Dramatic disappointments in physics have dotted these pages. A faulty connection at the world’s largest particle accelerator shut it down just after it turned on. The Hubble Space Telescope went silent just before a final servicing mission was about to launch. And, for those who value nostalgia, Pluto still isn’t a planet. Glancing back, 2008 could be seen as a year of setbacks. Luckily, one step forward and two steps back is still progress — as long as the first step is bigger than the second two. (The LHC did turn on, after all.) Science rarely advances in leaps and bounds. Progress demands patience, but in the end success smooths out a rocky road. This year, the Phoenix Mars Lander tasted ice and recorded falling snow after initial delays, and astronomers imaged an exoplanet trifecta after years of attempts. What’s true for physics and astronomy holds for other fields. Researchers are moving ahead with efforts to make stem cells safe for medical therapies and are gradually piecing together the complex puzzle of longer life. It is in this spirit that the writers and editors at Science News offer a look back at this year. We focus on forward movement —incremental as it may be. Because small steps add up. — Elizabeth Quill, News Editor
- Invisibility Uncloaked
- Aping the Stone Age
- The Science of Slumber
- FOR KIDS: Batteries built by viruses
- SN Special : Darwin turns 200
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Money Printing Will NOT Cure The Technology Culture Greed Cancer
A. "2008: Science news of the year"
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/39395/title/2008_Science_news_of_the_year
Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with 13 subjects'-links to the original stories.
B. The subject of one of the 13 hotlinks to the full stories is "science and society",
and - unbelievable - the 2008 world-wide economy collapse YOK, it does not even exist there...no mention and no reflection or pondering on its nature, symptoms and cause.
C. The world-wide economy can be saved ONLY by conceptual and factual renovation of the personal, social and societal values of the 1920s technology culture
Science and technology must be conceptually and administratively divorced from each other in order to renovate our culture, including economy.
"Implications Of Science And Technology Evolution"
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1&p=419
Since the 1920s technology development has been THE TOOL of capital formation and accumulation, together with their inherent social and societal values, attitudes and life style and even together with their inherent individual and societal-social ethics.
D. The Technology Culture Greed is neither a lofty nor an essential societal cultural ideal that must be maintained and upheld at all costs,
even if presently, at end 2008 and start 2009, we see a continuous pitiful obstinate inertial clinging of the greed-devotees to stock-markets activities all over the world. They just would'nt accept reality...
E. Money printing will NOT cure the technology culture greed disease
Money printing in this state of affairs, like a blood transfusion in a terminal situation, will only enable temporary precarious respite, not cure. It would take a steadfast dedicated campaign of cultural inovation to save ourselves from collapse and proceed on a route of rational science culture.
Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1
I personally Thought Atom & Cosmos and Earth were The Real break apart stories,or you can say articles of 2008,really fantastically written as well as mind-bogglingly analyzed and presented in a tabular form.
It really isn't as simple as people think it is,analyzing stuff and then making It viewable for a quarter of a million people Is not Joke.
And Who would know that more than You Guys at ScienceNews.
It was a tough battle but "Earth" won It for Me.
The Image that shows 500 Million years Of adaptation compiled in 1 Image Wins for Me as the Best Image of them all.
Fantastic Work Guys.
Warm Regards,
Dr.Bestt
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