So much news, so little time. You lot have your work cut out for you this weekend. 😉
- Professor says he’s found Stonehenge quarry site, and describes it as “a veritable Aladdin’s Cave of made-to-measure pillars for aspiring circle builders.”
- Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilzation.
- Traces of ancient men found in deep cave near Beijing. Nice pics.
- Massive online chronology of Chinese civilization, initiated in Beijing yesterday, will be similar to Wikipedia.
- Ancient Dog Buried Like Human Discovered North of Iran.
- Documented history of marijuana’s medical uses begins in 2737 BC.
- After 2,600 years, the world gains a fourth poem by Sappho.
- Zeugma Museum will open its doors Wednesday.
- Iraqis being trained by archaeologists to inventory Iraq’s ancient sites and monuments in an attempt to curtail widespread looting.
- Did Caucasians roam China before East Asians arrived?
- Tutankhamun’s tomb — the untold story.
- Icons of the matrix: striking commonalities recur in the symbols and ritual artifacts of diverse neolithic cultures.
- Inuit shamanism and the code of silence.
- Treasures of the world are under threat.
- Macroeconomics: If you’re confused, you’re in good company.
- Wal-Mart Nation: world’s largest retailer has become a force for change — in China.
- Here are all those flying cars everyone wants — with pics.
- Microbes can produce miniature electrical wires.
- America warns world of high risk of WMD attack.
- The government cover-up of the mercury/autism scandal: thimerosal, the preservative in the vaccines, responsible for dramatic increase in autism and other neurological disorders among children.
- Heat of cooking causes fats in foods to degrade into toxic substances that are causal agents of degenerative diseases.
- Having Celtic genes or even just living in Scotland increases risk of heart disease.
- Hubble spys ‘Eye of Sauron‘ — astronomers say dust ring’s distortions must mean a Saturn-sized planet is orbiting the star.
- Most Australians – 80% – believe in aliens.
- MIT physicists create new form of matter.
- Report says U.S. policy hinders global space cooperation.
- Holographic Movies Show Promise for Medical, Military Applications.
- Canada acts to restrict Internet pharmacies from selling prescription drugs to U.S. consumers.
- ‘Bionic’ arm brings back sense of touch.
- By early 2007, would-be space tourists who have a mere $200,000 burning a hole in their pockets will be launched 60 miles high from an Oklahoma space port.
- Beware the Google Threat.
- Harmless virus which infects a majority of people kills multiple types of cancer.
- Middle-age people who take folic acid substantially improve their cognitive test scores.
- The more television kids watch, the more confused they become about which foods are nutritious and which aren’t.
- New insights into autoimmune disease, including how a protein called F4/80 protects your eyes.
- Inner structure of cells behaves like molten glass.
- Geophysicist says much mythology has been shaped by strange things beneath the earth’s surface.
- Restless Planet: a review of Earth: An Intimate History. Amazon US & UK.
- Seven deadly sins: looking at some pressing societal issues through an old lens.
- New memory research suggests you may have a ‘Jennifer Anniston cell’ in your brain.
- An increase in a woman’s body mass results in a decrease in income, decline in occupational prestige, reduction in a woman’s likelihood of marriage, her spouse’s occupational prestige, and her spouse’s earnings.
- Unconventional wiring of brain circuits that govern sleep and waking might explain the prevalence of insomnia and its association with obesity.
- Pheromones in male sweat affect consumer behaviour.
- New data confirms strain is building on New Madrid fault in Central U.S.
- Do video games prime the brain for violence?
- Doctor uses animal scanner to detect brain disease in human infants.
- How programmers created artificial curiosity for Sony’s new robo-pups.
- Two robots attend nursery school to learn to play well with others.
- Photosynthesis found where the sun don’t shine.
- UK energy minister says mini-power stations in homes will replace many of the country’s giant power generating plants.
- Lancet study says $5 billion could prevent 6 million child deaths each year.
- Scientists say extinction of frogs is catastrophic.
- The secrets of dinosaurs.
- 716 differences in gene expression found in women who have children after age 45.
- How deep brain stimulation cures depression. In slow-paced narrative format, but worth your patience if you’ve ever been clinically depressed.
- Brain massage offers hope for muscle ailments.
- Baby boys whose fathers were depressed had twice as many behavioural and emotional problems in the pre-school years.
- Those now taking a trip down memory-chip lane will one day help unlock our past by reading countless computer files stored in outmoded formats.
- New ‘Invisible watermark’ encodes digital images to detect frauds.
- Aha! Scientists figure out why I’m right to say, “Don’t talk to me while I’m driving in rush-hour traffic.”
- Officials dismayed by lack of political interest in determining how badly waterways are polluted with discarded drugs.
- In memoriam: Jack Kilby, Inventor of the Modern World.
- With 350 million cell phone users and 100 million online, China is becoming a nation of geeks.
- Who’s Your Daddy? — review of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. Amazon US & UK.
- Lions to the Rescue! Three Big Cats Save Kidnapped Girl.
- Kings Against Witches.
- ‘Religious Left’: group of U.S. Christians have launched a new political movement to counter the power of the religious right.
- Church of England’s Archbishop of Canterbury says current media methods are lethal to journalism.
- Yahoo! editor slams mainstream news.
- Nightline anchor Ted Koppel laments dearth of news on substantive issues as media substitutes ‘eye candy overload’.
- The information revolution has forced creatives of every stripe into a to-the-death battle with media owners.
- Lost Utah boy hid from rescuers, fearing strangers.
- U.S. Supreme Court rules governments can seize private property for private development projects to try to boost the economy. Justice O’Connor warns this will allow governments to seize any property simply to allow developers to upgrade it.
- Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa.
- Views of the U.S. remain dismal: a survey of public opinion in 16 countries finds that a majority in every country except the U.S. believe the world would be better off if a country or coalition of countries emerged as a military superpower equal to America. Majority in 11 of 16 countries view China more favorably than U.S.
- Do colossal, primitive lifeforms, invisible to human eyes, populate our skies?
- Has the Moon got bigger (or did you imagine it)?
- The perils of hiring hookers: What johns hear and see in classes at Brooklyn’s Project Respect must put the fear of god in them because, of almost 2000 men who’ve taken the class, only two have repeated their offense.
- With worst yet to come, flooding in China has killed 500, 137 are missing, and 1.4 million have been forced to evacuate.
- Millionaire James Bond lifestyle comes to screeching halt as bogus UK spy is convicted for kidnap and theft.
- People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead.
- The Museum Of Mind Games, the brainchild of astrologer Jonathan Cainer and psychic celebrity Uri Geller, has opened in York.
Quote of the Day:
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
Billie Holiday
