Welcome to the eclectic news center. It all made sense when I wrote it ……..
- Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mighty Verneshot, an underground explosion with the energy of 7-million atom bombs.
- Arthropod animals were molting to make room for growth more than 500-million years ago.
- Hummingbirds may be 30-million years old.
- Physics meets archaeometry in ancient Greece.
- The tomb of a Mayan queen has been found in the rain forest of Guatemala.
- An ancient musical instrument has been found in the central highlands of Vietnam.
- Archaeologists have made a sensational discovery in Turkmenistan — a royal mausoleum.
- Zahi Hawass, the man in charge of Egypt’s antiquities and the greatest archaeologist of all time, is leading the hunt for to recover ill-gotten artifacts. Classic pic of Zahi and the Sphinx.
- The Mudslingers protect an ancient ruin.
- More than 2,000-years ago this ancient Maya community may have been major city.
- It took ancient peoples in Great Britain a millennium or more to create Stonehenge, but the New Zealand version will be built in a little more than a year. Kiwihenge.
- The drugstore culture threatens ancient Arab medicine.
- Far-away Easter Island has become an exotic port-of-call for medical researchers.
- The infamous, crawling, air-breathing, predatory snakehead fishes may be indicators of ancient climate shifts.
- The humpback whale is believed to sing its mysterious songs for the same reason generations of teens have started bad garage bands.
- A rising tide of micro-plastics is plaguing the seas. Where did you think those 2-liter bottles went?
- Here’s a follow-up on that lion in Ohio that Greg told you about yesterday.
- In Wassaw Sound off Savannah, Georgia there’s an 11-foot-long bullet with a snub nose and four stubby fins, an aluminum cylinder with No. 47782 written on it lying in the silt. Enclosed in its metal skin is 400-pounds of conventional explosives and a quantity of bomb-grade uranium. Take a guess what No. 47782 is.
- Scientists uncover how the brain retrieves and stores older memories.
- Ex-Nazi corporal says Germany attempted to kidnap Ike. If I told you more you would swear I made it up. Just read it.
- No one is pretending the forthcoming climate change filmThe Day After Tomorrow is anything but implausible, but that the public is probably smart enough to distinguish between Hollywood and the real world. I wish.
- Monsters like Godzilla may be scary, but they could be a parent’s best friend.
- Man is not a useless speck lost in the Universe.
- You’re invited to participate in the Massive Medicine Wheel Ceremony set for tomorrow. One Heart, One Mind, One Circle.
- The James E. Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to take a few baby pictures in 2011.
- Life in the universe could be everywhere.
- Join the quest to unlock universe’s missing link.
- One-third of the universe still eludes us.
- Our map of the Milky Way will have to be redrawn after Australian astronomers made the astonishing discovery that our spiral galaxy has a huge, out-flung arm.
- Four vast petro-chemical oceans on the surface of Saturn’s giant moon Titan wait the arrival of the ESA Huygens probe.
- Mars scientists find some tempting new rocks.
Quote of the Day:
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Ralph Charell
