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What chart should I use?

Just not the one you might think.
Climate change cover-up? You better believe it
There is, in fact, a climate conspiracy. It just happens to be one launched by the fossil fuel industry to obscure the truth about climate change and delay any action. And this release of emails right before the Copenhagen conference is just another [...]

Rainbow trapped for the first time
In 2007, Ortwin Hess of the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, and colleagues proposed a technique to trap light inside a tapering waveguide, which is a structure that guides light waves down its length. The waveguide in question would use metamaterials – exotic materials that can bend light sharply.
The [...]

Co-ed dorms linked to increased drinking, sex

The Loom: The Origin of Big
Goldbogen and his colleagues found that big fin whales are not just scaled-up versions of little fin whales. Instead, as their bodies get bigger, their mouths get much bigger. Small fin whales can swallow up about 90% of their own body weight. Very big ones can gulp 160%. In [...]

8 Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions
Most involving apparent motion.

Studying the science gender gap at the high school level
Although the study is preliminary, its primary result—girls are not enjoying their science classes—is not terribly surprising. The more important question to answer is why girls aren’t as engaged as boys.

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“It should remain airborne until until gravity overtakes it” is an awkward way of explaining. Gravity is always there, so the acceleration is always toward the earth. That’s why it slows down and eventually changes direction.
There is a world championship for anvil [...]

… and ships, weapons and sci-fi contraptions and more. The Blueprints Database

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy $@#%ing Icons (Re-reloaded) (warning: contains adult language)
How science really works, in the context of the recent global-warming-hacking manufactured kerfuffle. I mean, really — are people really surprised that some scientists are bastards, and say mean things behind the backs of others? Really?
This is how it works: [...]

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