Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-22-2008

[andrewducker]

• It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
  Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.
  (tags: physics matter energy)
• Spiders get their space legs
  I, for one, do not welcome our new eight-legged orbital masters
  (tags: science cool spiders)
• Those cotton-picking maps
  Comparing maps of Obama-voters to maps of cotton production in the 1860s. Nice parallell
  (tags: maps politics history USA)