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• Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming
• Giant Ocean Sunfish
• The New Map Of The Brain
• Oscar Goes Green and An Inconvenient Truth Wins Best Documentary
• Shell rapes the gulf, ruin fish stocks, cost gulf states millions!!!
• 15 Answers to Creationist’s Evolutionary Rebuttals
• Scientists Find Cancer Cure, But Big Pharma Isn’t Interested
• Probably one of the Best Science Fiction Short Stories Ever Written
• The true impact of Fiji bottled water
• If You’re Alive in 20 years, you may be able to Live Forever
• A Nostalgic Look at 11 Discontinued Sodas
• Savant Who Can Explain His Own Thought Process
• 11 Most Important Philosophical Quotations.
• Chimpanzees hunt using spears
• Productivity Boost: How to start your day at 5:00 AM
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin
• Bush officials misled public on global warming
• Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming
• When Did Science Become the Enemy?
• Australia to Ban Sale of Incandescent Light Bulbs
• Scientists offered $10,000 cash to dispute climate study
• Exxon Finally Admits Global Warming Is Real
• Monday view: Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
• Generator eats garbage, poops energy
• How nutritional science ruined the way we eat.
• New material created, even stronger than diamond
• 101 Amazing Earth Facts
• Is time an illusion?
• “But We Meant Well!” Killer Bees And 7 Other Mistakes
• How to Feel Like Eating Breakfast First Thing in the Morning
• LSU professor resolves Einstein’s twin paradox
• Study: Spinal Cord Can Repair Itself
• The Most Amazing Dog In The World
• Exxon linked to climate change pay out

Via IHS: A new survey in the U.S. shows that the number of 18-25 year olds who are atheist, agnostic or nonreligious has increased from 11 percent in 1986 to 20 percent today. Meanwhile a survey of the United States and the five largest countries in Western Europe reveals that religious belief continues to plummet in Europe, with Italy being the only country with a majority believing in any form of God or supreme being. And even in these overwhelmingly godless countries, the young are still significantly less religious than their elders. LINK, Digg thread

• 8 Web Design Tactics to Help You When You’re Stuck
• The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: Top 25 Apps to Grow your Business
• 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes
• 80 Wordpress Themes
• CSS: Getting Into Good Coding Habits
• CSS Speech Bubbles
• Papervision3D – An open-source 3D engine for Flash
• How To Generate Targeted Site Traffic Without Search Engines
• Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP
• Free Design Templates
• Yahoo Pipes and the Web as a Database
• What happens when ultra creative people use photoshop?
• How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography
• 28 Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls
• 6 Tools For Better Web Design
• The 14 Point Web Design Checklist
• Digg-style WordPress Dashboard theme
• 5 Blogging Methods That Work
• Ultimate Free Vector Downloads Roundup
• Secrets of Self Taught Web Developers: 115 Resource to Help Develop the Web
• Digg and all of its Web 2.0 friends (Comic)
• How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography
• 15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)
• 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website
• miniAJAX.com – Amazing DHTML and AJAX Code
• Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?
• Top 500 images on the Internet!!

Via WIRED: Today is Darwin Day — a kind of Christmas for the science-minded. Instead of observing a religious holiday, today is a celebration of Charles Darwin’s birthday and mankind’s crowning achievement — science.

Now in its fourth year, Darwin Day is the brainchild of a group of British and American scientists.

“Our long-term goal is to establish a new international tradition … an annual secular celebration of Darwin, science and humanity,” said Robert Stephens, one of the event’s organizers, to MSNBC. LINK

• Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box
• 23 Signs That You’re Becoming a Design Geek
• How to Protect CSS Mods for ANY WordPress Theme
• The Only 10 Minimalistic Blogs Worth Checking Out
• The man behind Vista’s Wallpapers
• Photoshopped Animals – Very Cool
• Creating a 3D effect with image editing software
• (Dilbert) “Why did you add this button to the User Interface?”…
• Tingelets – color your HTML!
• Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
• Getting/Staying Organized with Moleskine PDA
• Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons
• Top 14 Ways To Hinder Your Business Online
• If I Could Redesign Myspace: Part Deux!
• Top Ten CSS Gallery/Showcase Websites
• Top 10 Flickr Hacks
• Tutorials Round-Up
• Create abstract images with smoke
• FREE online photgraphy course
• A List Apart: Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop
• 3D Interfaces on the Web – Useful or Novelty
• Top 10 Tips for Growing a Forum
• How to become a web designer
• How to achieve a better client > designer relationship
• Photoshop tutorial: Out of Bounds
• Online Image Editors Compared – Comparision Chart
• An Absolute Goldmine of Web Design Education
• CSS SuperDouche
• 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
• Web 2.0: Free Fading Corner Images for your CSS
• 5 Freefonts You Shouldn’t Have Missed
• 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
• The Largest Photoshop Brush Resource Site on The Internet
• Photoshop : Create a fake software box
• 12 Basic CSS Templates
• Top 5 Photoshop Tutorials
• Collection of Handwriting Typography
• Improve your forms using HTML5!
• YShout 4: A PHP + AJAX Shoutbox
• How to Tag and Categorize Your Content
• 10 Things You Must Do When Changing WordPress Themes
• Massive list of sites all self learners should know about!
• 30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen
• Photoshop: Simple perspective technique
• Fun Photoshop Tutorial: Create Your Jelly Logo
• A List Apart: Why Whitespace Matters
• How to fake a Web 2.0 logo
• Attach icons to anything with CSS.

• Detailed Guide On Arrays In PHP
• PHP vs Java vs Ruby
• Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
• Mootools Version 1.00 Rleased
• Wordpress 2.1 released!
• 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know
• Building a Simple Search Engine with PHP
• Cool javascript : Edit whatever you want
• Visualizing Pi (π)
• The evolution of a web developer/designer
• Official Prototype.js API Documentation Unveiled
• PHP Programming Basics
• The Web Developers List of Resources.
• 10 CSS Tips from a Professional CSS Architect
• jQuery 1.1 Released
• More than 1500 programming tutorials and resources
• Web developers: No more IE hacks!

I’ve been neglecting my daily posts recently so I thought I would consolidate them into a monthly science story update. Here are the science stories for January 2007.

• Exxon linked to climate change pay out
• Scientists Find Cancer Cure, But Big Pharma Isn’t Interested
• 10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat (w/ brand names included)
• INCREDIBLE Satellite Image of Rainforest Destruction in the Amazon
• Savant Who Can Explain His Own Thought Process
• Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers
• Nobel Prize genius was on LSD when he discovered the secret of life
• Why Do Racists Have Low IQs?
• Top 20 scientific myths of all time.
• Top 10 Reasons Men Don’t Want Sex
• NASA Finally Goes Metric
• Bush officials misled public on global warming
• Scientists offered $10,000 cash to dispute climate study
• Amazing: 500 Gallons Of Water A Day From Thin Air
• Hawking: Climate Change Worse Than Terror
• Rare video of dying frilled shark
• Bush Lifts Alaskan Drilling Ban
• Construction of Offshore Windfarms; Earth Saving Human Engineering
• 5 MILLION ACRES of the Great Bear Rainforest saved from logging
• FREE Alternative Fuels Documentary Download
• Russia: Siberia’s Once-Frozen Tundra Is Melting
• California Bans Dirty Power Purchasing
• 200-year Experiment Changes Face Of Forest Management
• China’s Poison for the Planet
• Gray Wolves to Leave Endangered List
• New material created, even stronger than diamond
• Is time an illusion?
• Quantum mechanics may explain how humans smell
• How hallucinogens work
• Do You Know What Lives In Your Eyelashes?
• Of gay sheep, modern science and the perils of bad publicity
• Fish Capable of Human-like Logic
• Six of the scariest ideas in science.
• A great set of little tips to make everyday life a little easier
• Physicists Develop Test for ‘String Theory’
• Life Lessons

Via MSNBC: Following two recent studies on changes to Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, NASA is touting a survey that it says confirms “climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth’s largest storehouses of ice and snow.”

In a press release for the survey, NASA directly tied the changes to warming and described the survey as “the most comprehensive” ever in both regions.

That stand can in part be explained by lead author Jay Zwally’s warning.

“If the trends we’re seeing continue and climate warming continues as predicted, the polar ice sheets could change dramatically,” he said in the press release last Wednesday. “The Greenland ice sheet could be facing an irreversible decline by the end of the century.” READ

Via CNN: WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal scientists have been pressured by the White House to play down global warming, advocacy groups testified Tuesday at the Democrats’ first investigative hearing since taking control of Congress.

The hearing focused on allegations White House officials for years have micromanaged the government’s climate programs and have closely controlled what scientists have been allowed to tell the public. READ

Via Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly 150 years ago it was no more than a concept by a visionary scientist, but researchers have now created a minuscule motor that could lead to the creation of microscopic nanomachines.

Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first imagined an atom-size device dubbed Maxwell’s Demon in 1867. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have made it a reality.

“We have a new motor mechanism for a nanomachine,” said David Leigh, a professor of chemistry at the University.

A nanomachine is an incredibly tiny device whose parts consist of single molecules. Nature uses nanomachines for everything from photosynthesis to moving muscles in the body and transferring information through cells. READ