To paraphrase Pogo…
We have met the space aliens and they are us.
- Alien origin for life on Earth.
- Tuning into E.T.
- Why NASA watches out for particular kinds of UFOs.
- Southampton’s UFO mystery deepens with more sightings. (With video.)
- Professor designs plasma-propelled flying saucer.
- Gary McKinnon’s last ditch appeal to be heard today by the UK’s highest Court. More.
- Accidental astrophysicists.
- Visions of dirt: Phoenix Lander captures pictures of Martian soil.
- What to do with Little Green Goo?
- Before the beginning: new analysis suggests that the universe exists within a bigger space.
- Newsweek slams Egyptology’s gold-diggers.
- Oz dinosaur bone takes a bite out of theory of continental drift.
- Ebb and flow of the sea drives world’s biggest extinction events.
- A Case for Mistaken Identity: Do mythologists owe us an apology for having presented Ra as the Sun and Sun-god of ancient Egypt?
- Major breakup threatens Antarctic ice shelf.
- Deadly fungus may be lurking in your compost heap.
- Entire BBC archive to go online.
- Feds scrape together a measly $30 million for plug-in hybrids. Why so little? Maybe it has to do with giving big oil $17 billion in tax breaks over the next ten years.
- Genetically-altered bacteria eat waste and excrete crude oil.
- Desperately seeking 100 miles per gallon now? New conversion kits can turn some cars into plug-in hybrids, and massively boost mpg in others.
- Solar future brightens as oil soars.
- Experiment mimics Earth’s spinning core.
- Meet the Intraterrestrials: Bacteria of the deep biosphere, even those living beneath the sea floor, have plenty to keep them busy, and might exert influence on the ocean itself.
- Scientist’s brain scans produce a photo album of the soul.
- Artistic spiders attract prey with UV-reflecting web designs.
- The accuracy of 10 disaster flicks.
- Crappy movies are destroying your brain.
- Blueprint for sophisticated compact nuclear warhead found on smugglers’ heavily-encrypted computers.
- Broadband providers threaten to charge by the byte.
- Internet in danger.
- The secret plan to kill the internet by 2012.
- Face of fear: how a terrified expression could keep you alive.
- The peg-legged road trolls that lurk along our interstate highways. Jerry D Coleman (Loren Coleman’s brother) is the author of two Fortean books: Strange Highways: A Guidebook to American Mysteries & The Unexplained (Amazon US & UK) and More Strange Highways (Amazon US & UK).
- Update: The UnAssociated Press: As word of ‘fair use’ controversy spread like wildfire across the internet over the weekend, bloggers’ boycott of AP gained traction — and mainstream media attention.
Quote of the Day:
Is the house of the soul a mere bungalow with a cellar? Or does it have an upstairs above the ground floor of consciousness as well as a garbage-littered basement beneath?
Aldous Huxley
