Rick had almost recovered from his embarrassment over the Jackson Jive bruhaha, when along came the dwarf race. Now he’s too distraught to do today’s news. 😉
- Creationists: Fossil ‘Ardi’ doesn’t prove a thing.
- Odd new pterosaur: ‘Darwin’s Wing’ fills evolution gap.
- Unknown Leonardo work revealed by artist’s fingerprint.
- Prince of Darkness: The truth about Thomas Cromwell.
- Recruited by MI5: Benito Mussolini got his start in politics in 1917 with help of £100 weekly wage from MI5.
- Physicists measure elusive ‘persistent current’ that flows forever.
- The Collider, the Particle and a Theory about Fate.
- Jupiter Moon’s ocean could be rich in oxygen.
- Great ball of fire! Video reveals explosive magnetic power of the Sun.
- From ancient life to alien life: Living where the sun don’t shine.
- Now watch this: Saturn Aurora Movie.
- Cosmic Log: A smashing view from Hubble.
- Hunting arctic asteroid impact with hovercraft.
- Monkeys fall into ‘uncanny valley’, just like humans. I wonder what they’d think of horror movies.
- Half of young people claim they are happiest online.
- Scientists who risk their lives in the name of research face volcanoes, ice and hurricanes.
- Gene linked to better and faster decision making. Mine is switched off.
- Cleansing the air at the expense of waterways: The pollutants that coal plants are scrubbing from their smokestacks are finding their way into water instead.
- IEA wants $3.4 trillion spent on carbon capture by 2050.
- Potentially lethal CO2 may have to be stored under UK villages.
- Gorilla dung may help climate. So stop chopping off their hands for ashtrays.
- Nine different species of exotic giant snakes pose a major threat to U.S. wildlife.
- Dyson reinvents the humble fan – sans blades.
- Taiwanese Center has high-tech solar-powered skin.
- The science cartel vs. Immanuel Velikovsky. With a little libertarian philosophy thrown in for good measure.
Quote of the Day:
Most of us think of our DNA as sort of locked in our body, waiting to be passed on to our children, but in fact your DNA at every moment is interacting with your environment, interacting with every bite of food you take, interacting with your thoughts, your feelings, and various things, so when you take a bite of food, literally, the information — beyond the calories in the food — goes right into your cells, into your DNA, and switches on genes, or turns off genes based on what information is in that food.
Dr. Mark Hyman
