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News Briefs 04-04-2006

I have a splinter in my mind’s eye…

  • Study challenges prayers for the sick.
  • What do you do when your hand has a mind of its own. Hmm, now this could be the ultimate excuse.
  • Does Mozart help newborn babies?
  • Here’s a review of The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Fairies, by Anna Franklin (Amazon US and UK).
  • White witch Kevin Carlyon has threatened to put a curse on Fatboy Slim’s Loch Ness concert.
  • A double review of Lewis Wolpert’s Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell, which takes them to task for completely misunderstanding the roots of religion.
  • Our sixth sense gives us our place in space.
  • Virgin Galactic already has advance bookings for 157 people on their future edge-of-atmosphere flights.
  • Is NASA in out of space. I can see Richard Hoagland having a field day with this.
  • Historian looks at the failure of SETI.
  • If the British had a time machine, Winston Churchill would get a lot of visitors. Personally, I’d like to stop in on H.G. Wells…just to blow his mind.
  • Cockroaches live in a democracy. Hmm, I’m starting to see why the neo-cons are so keen to spread democracy.
  • Bug-eating robots use flies for fuel. I take it the flies have no vote in that.
  • Long term mobile phone use increases brain tumour risk.
  • Meeting Dr Doom – does a Texas scientist advocate killing 80% of humans with the Ebola virus?
  • Mushroom cloud over Las Vegas pencilled in for June 2nd.
  • Seven new wonders of the world.
  • Google to make the genetic information of the world searchable?
  • National Geographic has a feature on history’s best April Fools Day pranks.

Quote of the Day:

April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four

Mark Twain

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