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Golf ball sized single celled organisms, testing the social impact of graffiti, inefficient alternative energy subsidies, the life cycle of synaesthesia, Copernicus' skeleton...

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• Can the can
  Testable social science is few and far between, but this well conducted experiment seems to point to graffiti promoting other bad behaviors.
• Polish tests ‘confirm Copernicus’
  Hair from a notebook and the teeth from a skeleton found in a cathedral prove the discovery of Copernicus’ resting place.
• Frequent negative power prices in the West region of ERCOT result from wasteful renewable power subsidies
  Negative power bills reveals a broken system of alternative energy subsidies. (via Common Tragedies)
• How synaesthesia grows in childhood, and dies out
  The strange conflation of sensory experience appears to wane as those with the condition age.
• Single-Celled Giant Upends Early Evolution
  600 million year old fossil tracks were always assumed to have been made by multi-cellular creatures, but now these golf-ball sized single celled organisms are poised to cause quite the revolution in evolution.

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Golf ball sized single celled organisms, testing the social consequences of graffiti, inefficient alternative energy subsidies, the life cycle of synaesthesia, Copernicus’ skeleton…

Originally published November 21, 2008