Geek Weekly: She Blinded Me With Science

I’m not a scientist, but word on the street says I’m not the only geek in town who enjoys this type of news… so from this day forward I will be bringing you fine folk a weekly briefing of the world of (She Blinded Me With) science!

SOME HIGHLIGHTS:

• For all of you wing fans out there, Wired reported that the world’s oldest ‘flying’ car is up for grabs! –err, for sale, anyway. It’s twenty-one feet long with six wings, and may or may not actually fly.

• Sciencepunk mentioned a new set of commemorative stamps honoring 35 scientists (including historic staples such Sir Isaac Newton and Ben Franklin) for the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society.

• PopSci reported that there is an ongoing expedition by the JOIDES Resolution, a deep-sea drilling liner that’s run by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (for research) will be dipping into deep ridges in different oceans three times in 2010 in search of  Intraterrestrial Life (IT) on the premise that these internal findings will help us better understand our findings in search of extraterrestrial life. [ed. note: No word on if Mulder and Scully have gone back to Antarctica...]

• In other news, Wired Science reports that –pssh, as if they didn’t already have enough face time to begin with– a new archaeological find confirms that dinosaurs arose at least 10million years sooner than previously assumed. Now, for the more important question: ….will they ever be back?!

• THAT’S SO METAL: A paleontologist re-examined an old find from India, and upon further inspection announced that the dig didn’t simply un-earth fossilized eggs, but the remains of a 67 million year old snake fossil eating baby dinosaurs, that were caught in a mudslide. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.

That’s all this week, folks! To submit tips on interesting tidbits, email bianca[at]geekadelphia.com.