Sunday Science Sermon

hubble110509blogI didn’t find a whole lot this week, but there is still some LHC news and a little space porn. Can’t go wrong with that.
Hubble telescope

The hubble telescope keeps bring me amazing shots of space.

Oh, LHC, how I love thee

I can’t get enough LHC news. Symmetry Magazine has a nice summary of the steps needed to go over prior to getting everything up and running.

Antobiotic Overuse

Antibiotics are goign to be the end of us all. Bugs are becoming resistant to the antibiotics that we use.

This space for lease

I expect a lot more of this in the near future. Marketing companies exploiting genetic predispositions to incline people to want to purchase products. What will this mean for the future of advertising? If a company can not only tailor their products to appeal to people, but advertising can target genetic traits in order to make people more suceptable to want to buy these products, how will our free will fair.