The Spoof‘s spot-on spoof of the spoof.
- Belief in Yeti dying out as Bhutan modernizes, but Bhutan’s conservation department still has plaster casts of Yeti footprints mounted on the wall.
- Are aliens targeting Wales? (With video.)
- Monday night’s premiere of Into the Unknown With Josh Bernstein on Discovery Channel set to dispel myths about ancient gladiators.
- The possible discovery of the Theatre, built in 1576 and where Shakespeare’s troupe performed in the 1590s, could complete the set of open-air theaters where the Bard’s plays were staged.
- Music inspired art in Stone Age caves.
- Amazing gold ring and earrings unearthed from 2500-year-old Thracian tomb.
- Roman sarcophagi discovered in Newcastle, 1,800 years after they were sealed.
- Scientists on ‘Indiana Jones’ mission hope global warming will help solve 160-year mystery of missing British explorers.
- The £10,000 drawing that turned out to be a £100 Million Da Vinci.
- Evolutionary benefits of the heebie jeebies: Horror film gene makes some scream while others laugh.
- Primordial Earth echoed in arsenic-eating bacteria.
- The origin of theories: A review of Robert J. Richards’ The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought (Amazon US & UK).
- Not every scientist worships at Darwin’s feet: Scattered among the world’s top scientists are those who believe a conscious intention is behind nature’s processes.
- Do subatomic particles have free will?
- While magicians work, the mind does the tricks.
- Bird flu hopes from 1918 victims.
- Flu not the only killer in 1918 pandemic.
- 300 dwarfs may hold key to beating cancer — and to extreme life-extension.
- Ancient species of tree is helping Britain’s birds survive the effects of climate change.
- Ugly Bettys will always do worse, say scientists, because bias towards beauty is human nature.
- Mayor assures ‘beauty-disadvantaged women’ they’ll find no shortage of interested blokes in Queensland mining town, Mount Isa. Storm of protest ensues.
- Cockroaches of the sea: From Alaska to Africa, Australia to Alabama, scientists have noted with increasing frequency that jellyfish populations are on the rise, and threaten the health of oceans.
- Jellyfish invasion: Britain to fight them on the beaches.
- Designers of Spore want you to play God by creating your own alien species, starting from single-celled organisms. Will your ‘intelligent beings’ be bent on interstellar domination?
- A founding father of the internet says it’s come a long way, but its potential for worldwide change can and will be greater still.
- Military bent on creating an online, self-teaching artificial intelligence.
- A flying saucer that can sneak into buildings to spot enemy gunmen or plant explosive devices or bugs could be used by British troops on the frontline.
- Once upon a time an ethicist had a brilliant idea for a prison. Today we all live in it.
- Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy.
- Cataloguing Invisible Life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment.
- Lab animals number close to 115 million.
- Like the little Satans we are.
- A review of Kathryn Shevelow’s scholarly For the Love of Animals (Amazon US & UK Oct 6).
- How apes are like us.
- Octopuses have six arms and two legs.
- Inhalation of persistent free radicals, a newly discovered air pollutant, exposes the average person to up to 300 times more free radicals than smoking a cigarette.
- Aussie drug may prevent kidney disease. A tablet a day may cast dialysis away.
- Researchers say we size up someone’s trustworthiness within milliseconds via surprisingly small factors – where we meet someone, whether their posture mimics ours, even the slope of their eyebrows or the thickness of their chin.
- A blueprint to regenerate limbs.
- The man with the answer to life, the universe and (nearly) everything.
- Millionaires are trying to save the planet by buying entire ecosystems and turning them into conservation areas.
- Mad Max Delusion: Some scientists believe we’ve already entered into the beginning of the sixth extinction, set in motion by Homo sapiens.
- Peak oil is coming, and we’re unready.
- The Most Trusted Man in America?
Quote of the Day:
I’m not here to convince you that Sasquatch exists. I was hoping to convey to you that there is a body of data that is extremely compelling. I am convinced there is something out there. Something is leaving footprints. There’s something out there that begs for our consideration.
The amassed evidence of the footprints is strong evidence that there is a real animal that exhibits a consistent anatomy that is distinct from human anatomy and yet shows adaptations that are very elegantly suited to the habitat where they are reported to exist.
Jeff Meldrum, PhD, author of Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (New paperback at Amazon US Sept 4, & UK Oct 10), speaking in Edmonton Sunday at the Royal Alberta Museum on his research into Bigfoot.
