Colin Wilson, virtual girlfriends, disappearing Martians and all the other news that’s fit to print. Hope you enjoy.
- The new version of the fish story goes: “You should have seen the fish I caught! It was thiiiiiiiis polluted.”
- Colin Wilson gives an interview on ancient mysteries.
- The frozen preserved bodies of three WW1 soldiers have been found in an Italian glacier.
- The perfect gift for the techno-geek with share options in everything: a virtual girlfriend for his cellphone.
- A study finds that lopsided people are more aggresive. Who pays for these studies?
- The telltale signs of a cometary impact at Cheasapeake Bay have been found in Georgia, USA.
- NASA says it has begun work on what may one day be a Star Trek main ship’s computer.
- Australian scientists are turning to insect swarms to inspire a new generation of smart weapons.
- Investigating the lives of Ice Age hominids.
- The humanoid face on Mars has mysteriously disappeared.
- Planners for the next series of moon landings look again at Apollo style rockets.
- British fisherman are finding that exotic species are now the catch of the day.
- The Festival of Adonis in ancient Lebanon.
- The latest advanced combat drone, the X-47B, gets the go-ahead.
- Researchers are called out to a crop circle in Kalamazoo.
- Remembering the Code Talkers, as the last one of his tribe dies.
- African villagers flee after a mysterious spectral event kills 17.
- Plans are afoot for a UFO theme park at a Scottish alien hotspot.
- Every culture believes in some sort of magic.
- A leading dream researcher gives his opinions on why we dream. He concludes that dreams have no purpose.
- A solar-powered car travels across America in an attempt at a distance record.
- Japan intends to launch spy satellites next year.
- A “super-earth” planet, massive but not a gas giant, has been discovered.
- Bones left from 9,000 year old meals can reveal the lives of the early inhabitants of America.
- A heat resistant replacement for silicon in electronics has been developed, opening the way for new advances.
- Research originally used for DNA sequencing could soon be defeating the e-mail spammers.
- The forensic astronomers of Texas look up answers to ancient questions.
- Evidence for the impact of climate change on deep sea biodiversity.
- The twelve “tipping points” that could lead to rapid climate change.
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Thomas Jefferson
