It’ll be hard to follow-up on Greg’s brilliant interview with Michio Kaku. Ganbarimasu!
- Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa are the joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on ‘broken symmetry’ in subatomic particles. Big prizes can be found in the smallest of things.
- Scientists are amped by the power possibilities of electric eel cells.
- NASA’s Messenger spacecraft takes spiffy pics of Mercury. And slideshow.
- A Brazilian UFO cult has been forced to remove Carl Sagan’s name from their institute. I wish Forgetomori wouldn’t call them UFOlogists however, that’s a term for proper researchers (Vallee, Friedman, et al).
- Brookhaven scientist confirms UFO crash site near Socorro, New Mexico.
- Mac Tonnies wonders if alien-human hybrid programs are originating from extrasolar regions, or if those responsible have been with us all along.
- Glowing green creature and strange lights have been seen in Pennsylvania recently.
- Newly released files reveal the British MoD have been studying psychic abilities for use in the war against terror. Thirty years behind, mutters Paul Smith, author of Reading the Enemy’s Mind (Amazon US).
- Feeling out of control sparks magical thinking. There must be a lot of Harry Potters.
- Disgraced chief of Lehman Brothers bank (in the centre of the US economic crisis) denies he got US$450million handshake — he only got US$340million.
- Roman Villa unearthed at Budapest supermarket site. Wrens’ livers, Jaguars’ earlobes, Wolf nipple chips are in aisle 7.
- Prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings could show how humans survived dramatic climate change during the Ice Age. By living in caves?
- Has the oldest human skeleton in the Americas been found in an underwater Mexican cave? Put on your snorkel and flippers, RPJ.
- There’s an alarming increase in the number of penguins washing up on Brazilian beaches, and no one knows why.
- The world’s mammals face an extinction crisis, with one in four at risk. All because of one mammal in particular.
- In Japan, monkeys serve drinks in a restaurant. Poor Pigsy washes dishes.
- A life-like robot girl not exactly how Osamu Tezuka imagined it would be. Video.
- US Navy sonar is linked to whale beachings and deaths.
- Whale-cam is giving scientists unprecedented glimpes into the lives of whales.
Many thanks to Greg and Kat.
Quote of the Day:
People – especially people in positions of power – have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don’t want to hear that we’re on the wrong path, that we’ve got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
David Suzuki
