My Good Friend Humberto Inzunza Looks Exactly Like Abraham Lincoln

"After four scores and seven minutes to go our college football team brought forth, a win on this day. With that, a new notion came forth, conceived in Science, and dedicated to the proposition that all new discoveries are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, the Nation's Presidential Election. Testing whether that Nation, or any Nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure the Anencephalic and Anencephalous Stooges who vote for a certain Political Party, without listening to the Candidates to determine who is most Qualified. So we meet here, on this great battle-field of technology. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that Science might live, besides who becomes President. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this!"

The Actual Gettysburg Address before Mister Lincoln's Speech Writers Rewrote it.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

So,

without further ado,

some of the

Science

I have been reading.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Molecular Machines 
"A trio of European scientists was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for finding ways to energize and steer molecules, work which it is hoped will lead to the development of new materials and tiny sensors."

Major Dust Storm Could Soon Hit Mars

By Samantha Mathewson, Space.com Contributor 

"A raging Martian dust storm is expected to sweep across the Red Planet within the next few months, according to a study that found a way to predict these otherwise variable weather events. Global dust storms on Mars threaten robotic rovers traversing the Martian surface, as well as astronauts that may one day set up camp on the Red Planet. However, based on past weather patterns, Martian dust storms may soon become more predicable — and if history repeats itself, the next storm is just around the corner, according to a statement from NASA. Mars will reach the midpoint of its current dust storm season on October 29th of this year, James Shirley, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in the statement. Based on the historical pattern we found, we believe it is very likely that a global dust storm will begin within a few weeks or months of this date."

 

Obama goal: Send humans to Mars by the 2030s

By Tom Kludt, for CNN.com

"President Barack Obama has his eyes on the stars -- or more accurately -- a planet. In an op-ed published Tuesday on CNN, Obama set a clear goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s and to have them return to Earth safely, with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time.

Someday, I hope to hoist my own grandchildren onto my shoulders. We'll still look to the stars in wonder, as humans have since the beginning of time, Obama wrote. But instead of eagerly awaiting the return of our intrepid explorers, we'll know that because of the choices we make now, they've gone to space not just to visit, but to stay -- and in doing so, to make our lives better here on Earth. Achieving the goal, Obama added, will require continued cooperation between government and private innovators -- a collaboration that will begin in the coming years when companies send astronauts to the International Space Station."

Prehistoric Voice Box Reveals Dinosaur-Era Sounds

By Jen Viegas, for Seeker.com

"The oldest known squawk box has just been found, and it suggests that dinosaurs were noisy but didn't sing or roar. Sixty-eight million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and Antarctica was warm and pleasant, a bird that looked like a cross between a duck and a goose filled the Antarctic skies with a deafening, honking call. Scientists know this through analysis of the oldest fossilized syrinx — a bird's equivalent of a voice box. The organ, nicknamed the squawk box, was a syrinx of Vegavis iaai, a Cretaceous-age bird found on Antarctica's Vega Island 66-69 million years ago. The discovery, outlined in the journal Nature, offers key, tangible evidence not only for what some prehistoric birds sounded like, but also birds' oversized relatives — dinosaurs. Since birds evolved from dinosaurs, they may have developed the syrinx later — and dinosaurs likely never developed it. This means dinosaurs might not have been able to make noises similar to bird calls. In fact, it's also likely dinosaurs did not roar." 

 

Cosmic radiation may leave astronauts with long-term cases of ‘space brain,’ study says

By Amina Khan, for Los Angeles Times Science Now.com 

"This is your brain in space — and it does not look pretty. Scientists studying the effects of radiation in rodents say that astronauts’ exposure to galactic cosmic rays could face a host of cognitive problems, including chronic dementia. The UC Irvine-led study, published in Scientific Reports, adds to a growing body of research on the harmful effects humans may reckon with as they venture out longer and deeper into space, whether on trips to Mars or potentially beyond. Recovery of the brain [from] these exposures certainly takes a very long time — so these are very chronic consequences, said study leader Charles Limoli, a neuroscientist and radiation biologist at UC Irvine. This of course raises a concern for NASA. It’s well-known that radiation can damage neural tissue and hurt cognitive function; cancer patients with brain tumors who need radiotherapy end up with what the study authors called “severe and progressive cognitive deficits.” But it’s not clear exactly what effect space radiation has on the brain because there are different types of radiation and they’re delivered in different doses. Space is filled with high-energy particles of all kinds that quickly would damage the cells of living things. Luckily, the Earth’s magnetic field shields us from the onslaught; but farther out in space, with only a spacecraft as protection, humans are exposed to much more radiation."

 

 

This is,

If You Would Ever Meet My Good Friend

Humberto Inzunza,

You Would Say He Looks Exactly Like The Above Pencil Drawing Of

Abraham Lincoln,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
- Isaac Asimov -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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