Gootube? I sure hope that’s not official.
- Darwin’s missing notebook, which demolished the Victorian hubris that humans stood alone, is published for the first time, as Darwin’s entire works go online.
- New study of human fossils asks, what if we are the odd ones?
- Four prominent horns lend Utah’s newest dinosaur fossil an intimidating air.
- Estranged Wikipedia founder signs up academics for rival site.
- Collision caused rings around Andromeda.
- Mysterious source of cosmic rays detected.
- First invisibility cloak successfully tested. Harry Potter is amazed by muggles’ ingenuity, but the Romulans are pissed.
- Astronauts offer etiquette lessons to space tourists.
- Gold mine holds life untouched by the Sun. More.
- Beneath our seas, reserves of frozen methane hold more energy than all other fossil fuels put together. But can we get at them without causing environmental meltdown?
- Alternative-energy elevators shoot for the stars.
- Your mother’s smile: Evidence mounts that making, and perhaps recognising, expressions is inherited.
- Stingray rebellion gains momentum: Stingray jumps aboard boat, stabs man in the chest.
- The right hand really may not know what the left hand is doing – since each hand relies on a different set of sensory inputs.
- Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat.
- Memory problems? Maybe you should eat more strawberries.
- Wired to connect: It’s no accident that we speak of being on the same wavelength with someone.
- S Korean scientists develop cancer-killing virus.
- Scientists try to sniff out the scent of happiness.
- Study suggests expectations are key to math ability.
- Rare music to go digital.
- The Origins of the Crystal Skulls.
- Canadian couple share the details of their UFO encounter.
- Another Everglades Bigfoot photo has surfaced, taken by a skeptic-turned-believer who also heard it speak. Humm… Maybe the Miccosukee or Seminoles could translate that for us.
- UK looks at shutting down Freedom of Information requests due to overwhelming demand, not least from UFO researchers. Why not just open up the files, rather than
closing them? - Privacy is vanishing, but there’s no consensus on what it is, or what should be done. Part 1 of MSNBC’s week-long series on Privacy Lost.
- The death of ephemeral conversation.
- Class warfare on the security battlefield: the double standards in security hassles.
- Penning his first non-fiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Amazon US & UK), John Grisham takes a hard look at how and why two innocent men were wrongfully convicted of murder based on non-existent evidence, false testimony by jailhouse snitches, faulty forensics work, suppressed evidence, and a judge asleep at the switch.
Thanks Greg.
Quote of the Day:
Harold: What were you fighting for?
Maude: Oh, Big issues. Liberty. Rights. Justice. Kings died, kingdoms fell. I don’t regret the kingdoms – what sense in borders and nations and patriotism? But I miss the kings.
An ancient, youthful Maude explaining her radical past to a youthful, ancient Harold in the 1971 movie, Harold and Maude.
