Quoth Illidan: You Are Not Prepared!
- How Darwin won the evolution race.
- Authors claim Michelangelo hid coded insults to the pope, and more, in Sistine paintings. The Sistine Secrets: Michaelangelo’s Hidden Messages (in the UK), or Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican (in the US), is available at Amazon US & UK.
- Universe of Stone: How and why was Chartres Cathedral built? Phillip Ball’s Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind is available at Amazon US & UK.
- ‘Bloodline’ papers dated to 19th century – during the time Berenger Sauniere was at Rennes-le-Chateau.
- Neanderthal tools found at West Sussex dig.
- In Qatar, archaeologists discover what they believe to be the oldest organised human community ever found.
- Mystery stone of the Maya slowly revealing new twists.
- Archaeologists electrified by evidence of farming at 3,600-year-old native village site in Canada.
- Explorers hope to reveal secrets beneath the Antarctic ice.
- Over the past five decades, the world’s oceans have warmed 50 percent faster than previously thought.
- James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, calls for oil companies’ CEOs to be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.
- Heavyweight physics prof, David J C MacKay, crunches the numbers, then weighs in on climate and energy debate.
- Why ‘gallons per mile’ is a better way to think about your car’s fuel efficiency.
- Photos suggest Google Street View is determined to violate eveyone’s privacy.
- As numbers increase, blue whales deepen their pitch.
- ‘Social Viagra’: Pharmas working on new drug to combat shyness and social awkwardness.
- Scandinavian author, Margit Sandemo, talks about her extra-dimensional perception.
- M. Night Shyamalan and the Placebo effect.
- Night sky photographer documents secret satellites — all 189 of them.
- Chickens unlock allergy secret. Now if they’d just answer that “which came first, the chicken or the egg” question…
- Carl Zimmer on why the octopus has made it into the journal Consciousness and Cognition.
- Amazing – animal feats.
- UK forces attack Taliban with thermobaric weapons — which create a pressure wave that sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs, and crushes their bodies.
Big thanks to Greg!
Quote of the Day:
What a pity that the human animal is not able to put his moral thinking into practice. …I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up perhaps there’ll be no reason for any of it.
President Harry S Truman, in his diary.
