Whatever I've done wrong, please believe me, it was the devil, the bacteria, and the faulty wiring that made me do it!

• NASA scientists are searching for an invisible 'Death Star' that circles the Sun and catapults potentially catastrophic comets at Earth.
• From aboard the ISS, astronaut Soichi Noguchi posts stunning videos of the Earth and Moon.
• What would YOU say to ET? Competition to see what messages Earthlings want to send to extraterrestrials has produced shocking results.
• Cro Magnon skull supports theory that human brains have begun to shrink.
• Headless man's tomb found under Maya torture mural.
• It's a mystery that would stump even Sherlock Holmes: Why on earth are we letting Conan Doyle's home fall into ruin?
• Deep beneath London's streets, visitors revisit the eighth wonder of the world. 'How they got the performing horses down there God only knows.'
• What the devil is going on at the Vatican? What echoes down the centuries is not only the longstanding belief in demonic possession, but the logic behind it.
• Our microbial overlords: Can the bacteria in our bodies control our behavior in the same way a puppetmaster pulls the strings of a marionette?
• The brains of psychopaths are wired to keep seeking rewards, no matter the consequences.
• Journey to the center of the Earth: The dangerous quest for deepwater oil.
• Human-flesh search engines: crowd-sourced online detective work that aims for real-world vigilante justice.
• Data, data everywhere: Information has gone from scarce to superabundant, bringing new benefits and big headaches.
• Making bricks from straw may soon be possible - even desirable - now that scientists have figured out how spider silk can make ordinary materials stronger than steal.
• Scientists find key to rattlers' infrared sight.
• Illegal fishing and climate change are decimating shrimp and lobster populations in Central America.
• Short blasts of exercise are as good as hours of training, scientists find.
• We're being poisoned by mercury! How to get this lethal toxin out of your body.
• Caltech Cosmologist Dr. Sean Carroll blogs about his recent appearance on The Colbert Report -- and clears up that whole cake-batter thing ...sort of.
• Bloody, yes, but freedom flourished in the Dark Ages.
• In Mexico, drug cartel violence has gotten so bad, news reporters and authorities have retreated into a separate reality. The latest case in point.
• Jesse Ventura's Censored 9/11 Commentary.

Quote of the Day:

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Lewis Carroll, in Alice in Wonderland.

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea..."

• Einstein’s theory of gravity, confirmed? His handwritten works are on display in Jerusalem.
• Roger Penrose and the loops of time.
• The inequality aversion, explained.
• Recently restarted LHC shutting down for year to address design flaws.
• Ghostly accident or accidental ghost.
• Ghost-catching, one invention at a time at the Pump House Castle.
• Buzz Aldrin thanks the world for his birthday wishes.
• Was Pont-Saint-Esprit’s mysterious 'cursed bread' a CIA experiment with LSD?
• Vatican’s chief exorcist says Devil is in the Vatican.
• Dan Akroyd predicts the end of the world, sans Stay-Puft marshmallow man.
• Could some earthquakes be man-made?
• Meanwhile, it appears the Chilean quake may have shifted the Earth’s axis.
• Dozens of centuries-old shipwrecks discovered in Baltic Sea during construction.
• Has deforestation revealed an impact crater in Central Asia?
• Light in the California sky emits… smaller lights .
• Is Daylight Savings hazardous to your health?
• Titan’s slushy interior.
• It's Oyster vs. Anaconda in the battle for control of the waves.
• The mystery of thalidomide, unraveled.
• A mass grave of headless vikings.
• Brain scan experiment reveals what people are thinking.
• Past visions of science fiction’s science future .
• Australia’s buried rivers of antiquity.
• Are the Amazon rain forests stronger than we think?
• Archaeologists discover buried Mayan fountain.
• 15 photos from the 70‘s that raised awareness about preserving Mother Earth.
• Need a place to crash during the next polar upheaval-- try a Sea-skraper.

Many thanks to RPJ, Kat and Greg!

Quote of the Day:

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality-- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape…”

Walter Bagehot

May your skies be full of vibrant iridescent clouds...

• Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything —and 42 is a multiple of 7!
• 'Tis the question that has puzzled man since time immemorial: does Bigfoot have a bone in its penis? —and why am I suddenly humming 70's blaxploitation movie soundtracks??
• [Video] UFOs over lake Eerie Erie?
• Quick: under the desk! Regan Lee studies reports of strange beams of white light.
• Big Think video interview with the Big Kahuna of commercial space travel: Burt Rutan.
• Moa eggshells yield ancient DNA —Hmmm... Moa huevos rancheros *salivating*
• Chinese archeologists discover a new 137-km stretch of the Great Wall.
• The search for Zheng, ancient China's greatest mariner.
• An unearthed tomb on Crete reveals a dynasty of priestesses reigned on the isle during the "Dark Ages" of ancient Greece —proving also that Greek archeology is not very P.C.
• Archeologists find conduit designed to deliver pressurized water to the Mayan city of Palenque... or human blood —Bwahahahaaaa!
• World's southernmost site of early human life uncovered in Australia.
• Why the demise of civilization may be inevitable —may? you mean I spent my entire savings building an 2012-proof shelter for nothing?!
• Black tears from the sky: Japan confirms the exisence of a secret Nuclear pact with the US.
• Listen up laddies: "Non-scientific study" (their words!) says Scottish have red hair to endure bad weather —Melbourne weather might explain Rick's ginger beard... and his Scroogish temper :-P
• Richelle Hawks on the liminality of color, and why Red is the awesomest hue of them all ;)
• "My, what beautiful 64-bit RGB eyes you have": computer vision & how robots are taught to perceive images.
• Pentagon looks to breed immoral immortal ‘synthetic organisms’. In the words of the immortal quantum-leaping Dr. Sam Beckett: "Oh Boy!"
• Conspiracy Smorgasbord @ Zorgy-awarded BOA, with Kenn Thomas. Listen to the podcast and join the list of citizens surveilled by the NSA —just kidding! or am I?
• American lawmakers are considering a national biometric ID card to counter the hiring of illegal immigrants. Might be cheaper to just tattoo a codebar in every American's right cheek...
• Lula da Silva, Latin America's defacto majority leader, seeks peace in the Middle East, while failing to criticize the totalitarian regime in Cuba. Meanwhile, political dissident Guillermo Fariñas is on the brink of death.

Thanks to Rick, Kat, Greg & Moezilla. And also thanks to Corey, for teaching me how to recognize a master vampire —Very handy info y'all.

Quote of the Day:
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal"

Albert Pike

I think I remember how to do this, it's like riding a bike... without the LSD.

• Robin Hood & the Templars of Doom: hidden history in Sherwood Forest.
• Oxford mathematician & Wonderland explorer, The Mystery Of Lewis Carroll by Jenny Woolf (Amazon US & UK).
• Algebra in Wonderland; the science of Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll.
• Singalong-a sulcus: investigating how brains hear music & lyrics.
• Sputnik Observatory is a not-for-profit educational organisation dedicated to the study of contemporary culture. Guest features by Jacques Vallee, Colin Andrews, & much more. Looks brilliant.
• Lunar rock samples collected during Apollo missions suggest a wet interior. That explains this.
• Physicist claims warp speed will kill you. To timidly stay home & avoid strange new worlds...
• Ohio man films strange lights above Lake Erie over five nights.
• Unweaving the rainbow: beautiful photography, shame about the science proselytizing.
• Skeptic Ben Radford eloquently describes his visit to Machu Picchu. OMG, I actually agree with him -- and I don't have a fever! Even if he did misspell Machu Picchu.
• Excavated tomb reveals dynasty of priestesses on Crete.
• Sudan's forgotten pyramids: more mysteries than Egypt, without Zahi.
• DNA of extinct birds extracted from ancient eggshell.
• Experts seek 15th-century Chinese shipwrecks off the coast of East Africa.
• Trove of shipwrecks, one up to 800-years-old, found in Baltic Sea.
• The ultimate marine battle: great white shark vs giant squid.
• Crikey, that's not a yokai! Phantom kangaroos seen in Japan.
• In case Yokai Attack! please read (Amazon US & UK).
• The UFO Mystic tracks blue dogs & chupacabras in Texas.

Thanks Greg, Kat, & Joanne.

Quote of the Day:

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Aw look, Zorgy #4 for the mantelpiece. Congrats to all nominated, and thanks to all who voted, even if you didn't listen to my advice…

• The return of Tron! And, the Dude abides! It's enough to make this grown man weep with nostalgia.
• Army's "mad scientists" study swarming mines and Facebook attacks. Hopefully combined.
• Chile earthquake moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west.
• Does oarfish omen spell earthquake disaster for Japan?
• Who's the grown-up in the science vs religion debate? Maybe this guy?
• How the alphabet was born from hieroglyphs.
• Ancient texts present Mayans as literary geniuses. If they could just break out of that 2012 genre...
• Czech archaeologists find 150,000-year-old settlement in North Iraq.
• Time and Mind 3:1 has just been released with plenty of fascinating content on the ancient mind.
• The real canals of Mars are made from subterranean ice.
• Futurist Ray Kurzweil didn't like James Cameron's Avatar.
• Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Wiseman clash over parapsychology experiments.
• Erik Davis chats with Trickster and the Paranormal author George Hansen.
• Fortean and conspiracy researcher Jerry E. Smith passes away after battling pancreatic cancer.
• Tim Binnall talks to parapolitical researcher Kenn Thomas in the latest BoA podcast. Plus: here's Tim's interview with the late Jerry E. Smith.
• The biggest crop circle, ever.
• Missing persons and abductions reveal psychics' failures.
• What's in a name? Tumbling down the rabbit-hole while on the track of the Beast of White Lake Ontario.
• Even superheroes need their science.
• Cryptid colouring pages! And the best thing, as @TheDarkEngine said on Twitter, is that no-one can say you used the wrong colours.
• And you thought Michael Shermer's 'Skeptic' column in SciAm couldn't get any stupider…

Thanks Rick.

Quote of the Day:

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much strange - and anti-strange - news, reading it all could make your head spin. But not to worry -- for me, a little aspirin and caffeine cast that demon headache right back out.

• Anti-alchemy boffins transmute gold into anti-strange anti-hypermatter.
• Glozal finder, Emile Fradin, who has died aged 103, was either one of the most productive archeological forgers ever known, or, as his supporters claim, the victim in France's archaeological equivalent of the Dreyfus case.
• Uri Geller is seeking Egyptian treasure on his own Scottish island.
• Virtual simulations demonstrate that Leonardo da Vinci's calculations for huge horse statue were on the mark. Leonardo da Vinci conceived, but never finished, this project -- a failure that has long puzzled scholars. Video.
• New radar map of Mars reveals remnants of a vast ice sheet hidden under the Martian rubble.
• Is there anybody out there? Scientists believe there could be 10,000 civilisations in our galaxy, and millions are being spent trying to find them.
• Jon Ronson speaks to the man who will welcome our alien overlords, Prof. Paul Davies.
• Russia to halt space tours.
• Snowball Earth: Glaciers, ice packs once met at the Equator.
• Major new inquest into the death of the dinosaurs: SciAm's report on the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) mass extinction.
• Climate scientists hit back at the sceptics with new research they say has uncovered the 'fingerprint' of man-made global warming.
• A leading scientific institute allowed its evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into climate science to be influenced anonymously by an energy industry consultant who argues that global warming is a religion.
• The heat over bubbling Arctic methane is premature.
• The way of the dinosaurs: Skeptics ignore climate change at our own risk.
• Climate change skepticism a litmus test for Republicans.
• Organized climate-change skepticism traces back to the three founders of the conservative George C. Marshall Institute. You can preorder Naomi Oreskes' book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, due out May 25th, at Amazon US & UK.
• Creationists seek to stop the teaching of global warming.
• In a book of memoirs, renowned exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth says, in the Vatican there are members of Satanic sects. When asked if members of the clergy are involved, he responded, 'There are priests, monsignors and also cardinals!'
• For sale: Two captured ghosts, trapped by an exorcist inside bottles of holy water to make them sleepy.
• Update: Two 'bottled ghosts' have sold for NZ2830 (£1305, $1,954) in an online auction in New Zealand.
• Defectors say Church of Scientology hides abuse.
• Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? Michael Prescott presents an interpretation of history through the writings of a medium who claimed to have been present at several seances held at the White House.
• Fish and frogs aren't the only weird things that have rained from the skies.
• Creepy crawlies: Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders.
• Nobel laureate Ahmed H. Zewail: The scientist with the fastest eyes.
• Did life on Earth begin twice? Could the Mono Lake arsenic prove there is a shadow biosphere?
• The world's most useful tree produces food, oil for lighting, cooking and biogas, and crop fertiliser; and now, it can also purify drinking water, thanks to free instructions posted online.
• Light keeps spinach fresh and producing new vitamins, even after it's picked. Uh oh, you know what this means: the light in the refrigerator should stay on all the time.
• HIV hides out in bone marrow cells.
• Survival instincts: Comparison of Titanic and Lusitania shows self-preservation is trumped by social pressure when there is time to think.
• Neuromarketing: MRI brain scans to be used to 'design' political candidates' -- as well as other, presumably more-reliable, products.
• Cyberwar declared as China hunts for secrets. In the past year, the number of attacks on US government agencies rose to 1.6 billion a month.
• Fighting the hackers: In a command centre a huge map of the world keeps a running log of global attacks in Tokyo’s Cyber Emergency Centre.
• Police arrest Mariposa botnet masters, seize sensitive data of 800,000. 12million+ host computers were compromised including the networks of 500 of the US Fortune 1,000 companies and more than 40 major banks.
• UK's Ofcom boss, Ed Richards, wades into Net Neutrality row. He sounds nutty as a fruitcake to me.
• Microsoft sends flowers to Internet Explorer 6 funeral. Meanwhile, IE 8 is still not mingling well with 2,000 highly-visited sites, and Windows users must patch their systems every five days, on average, to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities. More.
• Mozilla lays the foundation for the web's next 100 years.
• The shocking truth about Tasers: A commuter in a diabetic coma, an 89-year-old man and children as young as 12 -- just some of the targets of British police armed with skin-piercing 50,000-volt Taser guns.
• Police got teen drunk for confession.
• It's who you kill that matters.
• Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy avoiding cameras, motion sensors, alarms in daring heist. Speaking of thieves...
• UK's bankster bailout may be paid for by new tax on food.

Big thanks to Baldrick and Greg.

Quote of the Day:

Imagine you are in a Toyota on the highway at 60 miles per hour approaching stopped traffic, and you find that the brake pedal is broken. This is CO2. Then you figure out that the accelerator has also jammed, so that by the time you hit the truck in front of you, you will be going 90 miles per hour instead of 60. This is methane. Is now the time to get worried? No, you should already have been worried by the broken brake pedal. Methane sells newspapers, but it’s not the big story, nor does it look to be a game changer to the big story, which is CO2.

Dr. David Archer's analogy, here, regarding the recent news about methane leaking from the Arctic seabed.

“Sunlight splatters dawn with answers, darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye…”

• The Earth and Sun battle for the atmosphere.
• ’Snowball Earth’ theory proven by ice-covered equator in antiquity.
• Thawing ice and permafrost in contemporary Siberia reveals mammoth remains.
• Meanwhile, undersea permafrost is belching mammoth amounts of methane…
• …Which all leads to Alaska’s ’Exit Glacier’ exiting, stage right.
• Earth: Dark matter’s nemesis.
• Studying dead zones with dead pigs.
• Australian frog back from the dead.
• Scientific ‘dream team’ reveals extinction of dinosaurs only took one asteroid. Granted, said asteroid exploded with one billion times more energy than Hiroshima atom bomb.
• That said, are dinosaurs 10 million years older than we thought?
• 67 million year-old egg reveals dinosaur-eating snake.
• Ever say up late wondering why lizards have ears? Prayers, answered.
• There are more microbes in your gut than genes in your body.
• Seven theories of everything.
• Study suggests liberals and atheists are more evolved.
• Meanwhile, happier people speak more and with greater gravitas.
• UFOs over Argentina?
• UFOs over Ohio?
• Get your personal memory device, now.
• Hybrid fusion, the other nuclear option.
• Creating new matter from scratch (and trillion degree heat).
• Lights, carbon, action!
• How the ocean turns carbon into fuel.
• The DEA and Thomas Jefferson's forgotten poppy garden.
• Egypt reclaims prehistoric artifacts from the UK.
• Lab-Coats prove teleportation is possible… theoretically.
• Popular Science’s archive is online, for free. Old news, but worth reposting - try searching for 'UFO' for good contemporary news stories about Project Blue Book, etc.
• An inside look at Project Blue Book from an Air Force colonel’s p.o.v.
• Ghost-making app fools UK tabloids.
• Ministry of Defence claims UFOs are not a military threat.
• Free will is an illusion, biologist claims (unintentionally, one assumes).
• Freak waves no longer a myth after being spotted from space.
• Did the sky change color during Chile earthquake? And-- is there a link between the quake and a coronal mass ejection from the Sun?
• Incredible images of the flooding Okavango.
• Self-proclaimed prophet busted for multi-million dollar fraud. Should’ve foreseen this one coming…
• Three minutes of Rob Carter’s Metropolis.
• Ladies and gentlemen… dancing 'Predators'. Jaw, meet floor.

Ultra thanks to Greg, RPG, Moezilla, Holly the cat and the folks at the Anomalist!

Quote of the Day:

“Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills-- 
One man gathers what another man spills…”

Robert Hunter

Fuerza Chile!!

• Skeptic Susan Blackmore continues to be retired from Parapsychology by posting yet another screed against it: "In the service of science, not spin" —speaking of spin...
• "We'll make great pets": computers can read our minds now.
• Global warming may be normal at this point in glacial cycles, according to German & Russian scientists. You now what else is normal during glacial cycles? EXTINCTIONS.
• Spirits in the Sand: Nat Geo investigates the Nasca lines [more here] .
• Gorilleidolia on Mars: Best. Album. Publicity. Ever?
• Search for Mars life to heat up in —when else??— 2012.
• From the Big Bang to Sarah Palin there is an enormous —& kind of tragic— distance. Robert Lanza tries to find a new explanation for the origin of the Universe. Biocentrism [Amazon US & UK]
• How do supermassive black holes in the centre of most galaxies gobble gas from their surroundings? maybe the black holes are like cosmic Sarlaccs, and stars act as Huttese kingpins —eat your heart out, Hawking!
• Heavenly Palace: China to launch 1st module of their permanent space station next year —I wonder how many eunuchs it will house... [more]
• Human Compulsions Among the Stars. Because self-awareness & radio-transmitting ain't the same thing, Seth.
• Fotos de Ovnis? A collection of UFO photographs from regular Inexplicata contributor Prof. Ana Luisa Cid.
• MUFON & Mexico: Marla Peña writes about the Close Encounters of the Embarasing Kind in Mexican Ufology.
• Darth Vader on Washington's National Cathedral? the things I learn thanks to Dan Brown...
• Don't call your agent just yet, Dan: the 'crucifixion nail' was found in an imaginary country —then again, since when have small details such as 'facts' ever stopped you? :)
• Behold the power of the hive mind! wasps discovered penicillin millions of years ago.
• Fighting dengue with... mosquitoes? wasn't this the same approach that brought us Saddam & Al Qaida?
• Homeopathy: still the #1 alternative medicine in Europe.
• God is in the dung: borrowing from Hindu spiritual traditions, researchers are working on medicines based on bovine's excreta. Gau Jal anyone?
• The second coming of the Auroch. Now THAT would make bullfighting much more interesting —go bulls! ;)
• Behenu, a 4000-years-old Egyptian queen, has been unearthed by French archeologists in Saqqara.
• Egypt? *yawn* Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' is a better spot for archaeologists with big enough kahones.
• 200 Russian tanks found abandoned in forest. Because kids NEVER like to put away their toys after they finish playing.
• Directing air traffic: so easy even a child can (literally) do it.

Thanks to Greg & Kat. And a special thanks to Turner Young & Perceval.

Quote of the Day:

"Past generations believed the world was a great ball resting on the back of a turtle; now science would have us believe it's a fairy universe that appeared out of nowhere and that expands into nothing. Angels used to push and pummel the planets about; now everything is a meaningless accident. We've exchanged a world turtle for a Big Bang. By reminding us of its great successes at figuring out the mechanics of things, and fashioning marvelous new devices out of raw materials, science gets away with patently ridiculous 'explanations' for the nature of the universe as a whole. If only it hadn't given us HDTV and the George Foreman grill, it wouldn't have held our respect long enough to pull the old three-card-monte when it comes to these largest issues."

Robert Lanza, M.D.

If you haven't voted yet in this year's Zorgy Awards, head on over and rock the vote for The Anomalist for 'Top Paranormal News Service'. Three years holding the title is enough for the Grail, and The Anomalist is one of the all-time greats…

• The Eerie Silence: Professor Paul Davies writes on the history, techniques, and merits of SETI.
• Syria's Stonehenge.
• So, the DNA evidence has now shown the KV55 mummy is probably Akhenaten, right? Perhaps you shouldn't believe everything (anything?) that the big Z says. More here.
• A rare Buddhist flower that blossoms once every 3000 years found beneath a nun's washing machine. If that doesn't sound like a bunch of euphemisms, I don't know what does.
• Human culture is an evolutionary force.
• You know that 'missing link' fossil that made huge news last year, being an early human ancestor? Yeah, not so much anymore.
• Orca whales defeat great white sharks by flipping them upside down.
• Commonly used pesticide (banned in most of Europe) turns male frogs into females. Gives a new spin to the Princess & the Frog Prince fable.
• Ants navigate via stereo smell.
• Implanted neurones let the brain rewire itself.
• Dark matter could meet its nemesis on Earth in Newton's second law of motion.
• Joseph Capp reports from the International UFO Conference in Nevada.
• The top ten spooky sleep disorders.
• Poll: what would it take for you to believe in UFOs and aliens? Me: UFOs exist, emphasis on the U; as for aliens, get away from city lights & take a look at all those stars.
• 8-limbed boy needs surgery to remove parasitic twin. Not sure I'd want someone else's buttocks sticking out of my chest either.
• On this week's Skeptiko podcast, Alex Tsakiris chats with Renée Scheltema about her film Something Unknown is Doing We Don't Know What?.

Thanks Rick.

Quote of the Day:

SETI is enormous fun and of great interest to the public. The momentous nature of a positive result hardly needs to be spelt out. Unfortunately, the subject represents a level of speculation unusual even by the standards of contemporary theoretical physics, and it may turn out to be a wild-goose chase.

Professor Paul Davies

Spring has sprung! Actually, it's autumn here in the Antipodes…

• Jesus' bones found at Rosslyn Chapel!! Well, bones at least. It's only a small leap of logic, surely?
• Nail from time of Christ's crucifixion found in a dig. Convincing stuff!
• Lost Descartes letter found, therefore it is.
• Massive head unearthed in Egypt. No, not Zahi's (c'mon, that one wrote itself).
• There's water in them thar lunar craters! Yeeehaw!
• Is the British Ministry of Defence telling a few porky-pies about its UFO desk closure? Comments exchange with Dr David Clarke follows the article.
• Dr Who visits Stonehenge. Also: a wonderful gallery of Scottish megaliths.
• Oldest example of written English in a church discovered in Salisbury Cathedral.
• Meanwhile, perhaps the oldest example of writing has been discovered engraved on 60,000-year-old ostrich egg shells. Have scientists had their heads in the sand?
• Ancient human ancestors faced fearsome horned crocodile.
• Dino-eating snake killed and fossilised in action. In the past, past tense.
• Strange sights in the sky before the Chilean earthquake. UFO, HAARP, earthquake lights, or just a funny-looking cloud?
• And: can animals foresee earthquakes? Not to spoil the fun, but regarding the story's video, the ending piece of film clearly shows a tremor at the same time the dog bolted (compare the timecode).
• Chilean quake may have shortened Earth days.
• The on-again, off-again scientific love affair with birds and their alleged magnetic sense is on again.
• Could the Bloom Energy Server bring microgrids online?
• Bill Maher gets smacked down over his comments about Buddhism. Non-violently of course.
• The merits (or not) of armchair skepticism. Scroll beneath the story for my comment (#8).
• Ghost-hunting team finds evidence of fictional character's ghost.
• Will the furious public backlash from the Simon Singh libel case break the back of chiropractors?
• Accepting the reality of false memories.
• Celtic crop circle comes to Cornwall. Crikey.
• US court rules zombies have the right to free speech. Bloody liberal judges, the next step is to say eating our brains is okay!

Buckets of thanks to Rick and Perceval.

Quote of the Day:

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman