Five Acres with a View

This week, scientists announce a new dinosaur named after our local Garden of Gods: Theiophytalia kerri. The fossil was misclassified when it was originally discovered in the 1880s.

Google celebrates the invention of the laser.

On April 15, Expelled will have their complete response to the film which claims that educators and scientists are being persecuted for their belief that there is evidence of design in nature. (via my favorite science blog, Pharyngula.)

The Straight Dope: Are electric cars really more energy efficient? Do “green” vehicles have a worse impact on the environment than a Hummer?

Astroprof writes about Daylight Wasting Time? and a research study that was done in Indiana.

Although I like to take dramatic photos of the sky, I hope I never take one quite as dramatic as this one from Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2003 July 22.

One of the frustrations of beta testing is that I can’t talk about the latest cool new thing in TypePad, which I am using right now. I found out about it in the Changelog notes.