Two shots of happy, one shot of sad …
- Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was tragically killed by a stingray today.
- Scientists say the Kyoto agreement isn’t working, and climate change is inevitable.
- The BBC has commissioned a panel of scientists to review James Lovelock‘s claims of global warming. Let’s hope it’s not another Horizon hack-job, eh?
- Here’s Tom Bearden’s technical comments regarding Irish company Steorn’s free energy claims. I’m completely baffled (but that could be from getting hit in the head at Kung Fu training again).
- Rainstorms have dramatically increased in Scotland over the past 40 years, and the country is 72% wetter due to climate change. Is it possible for Scotland to get more rain?
- Scientists have mapped a canyon deep under the Atlantic sea.
- A new species of bird has been discovered in eastern Nepal, but no one has called it Captain yet.
- A Dutch scientist has discovered 20 new species in the Amazon, including two new monkeys.
- Insect bite marks in ancient leaf fossils are shedding new light on how nature bounced back after the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact 65 million years ago.
- The journal Nature has changed claims it made in a report on a new way of creating human stem cells without harming embryos.
- A video report of a village in India where an alarming number of young men are struck with old age syndrome — and is contaminated water to blame?
- As the world obsesses over America, China flexes its superpower muscles — but what’s the view from China’s eyes?
- An amazing breakthrough may enable people with serious spinal injuries to walk again.
- US astronaut has let slip the name of NASA’s new retro-designed spacecraft that will see the return of astronauts to the moon — Orion.
- Perhaps they’ll be scavenging the wreckage of Europe’s Smart 1 probe, which smashed into the moon as planned on Sunday.
- In 1925, a chronically ill and impoverished Austrian engineer invented a solar-powered space station, and wrote a book about space travel.
- Hubble has captured incredible pictures of a moon eclipsing the planet Uranus.
- Japanese researchers have designed a robot that is able to identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d’oeuvres by taste. I prefer to do that myself.
- A robot that can chat on the internet is indistinguishable from real people. I was wondering why the gorgeous babe I was chatting to last night started talking in binary code.
- What if the dinosaurs survived? What if Hitler was a successful artist? Scifi writer Stephen Baxter ponders the possibilities.
- A cosmic coincidence resurrects the cyclical universe as scientists rejig their theories.
- Defying the belief that UFO sightings are getting rarer, MUFON had 105 reports during July, and that’s only for one state.
- The Manila Bulletin examines whether the Bible contains evidence of UFO encounters.
- Unidentified vertical discs were witnessed over Sydney recently, but according to this report, the number of witnesses was zero. If a tree falls in the forest …
- Did a New Jersey hunter slay an adult bigfoot and capture it’s cub? Don’t dress up as Chewbacca this Halloween, kids.
- Perhaps it escaped from the set of Lance Henrikson’s new movie Sasquatch Mountain, premiering on the Scifi Channel September 9th.
- The White Mountain Apache Nation has gone public with their encounters with bigfoot.
- The search for the chupacabra in Argentina and Chile heats up, with reports of armed searches.
- Here’s a fantastic list of articles by American Chronicles’ Steve Hammons — he covers Iraq, conspiracies, UFOs and the paranormal.
- If you’re considering a holiday in 2007 then try a tour exploring the mysteries of Da Vinci, Poussin and the Rennes-le-Chateau.
- I’ve linked to this once before, but it’s a real doozy — Fortune’s Navigator compass.
Thanks Clive, Craig, Vimania, Anneke, and Kat.
Quotes of the Day:
Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin
