Wouldn’t you rather have oysters and crabs than popcorn?
- Did ‘dark stars’ in the early universe spawn supermassive black holes?
- Dwarf dinosaurs that lived on ‘Neverland-like island’ in Transylvania stayed small and never really grew up.
- Aurochs Project aims to breed extinct ancient cattle.
- CSI Cairo: How science will solve the mystery of Tutankhamun.
- Abraham Lincoln, True Crime Writer: While practicing law in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln defended a man in a highly unusual case and later recounted the mystery as a short story.
- Big Blue boffins hatch dirt-cheap solar cells made of ‘Earth abundant’ materials.
- As the Chinese Year of the Tiger begins, scientists say the world’s biggest cat may be more ancient and unique than we thought.
- World of Google zombies mistake news story for Facebook. It’s not a search engine. It’s global hypnosis.
- Google Street View pulls Canadian murder scene. ‘We’re very sorry if it caused any distress.’
- Viking frogmen chase Street View spymobile.
- Hallucinating reality’s wallpaper.
- When time flies: Study shows just how important the feeling of time passing at different speeds is in our evaluation of how much we enjoy life.
- Study shows we can bank sleep — store it up in advance of a tiring event.
- Caverns on the underside of Mallorca offer strange new evidence about the movement of glaciers long before the last ice age. What if glaciers melt faster than anyone has suspected?
- Exmouth engineer has close encounter of the third kind.
- Scotland saw a massive increase in UFO sightings last year – just as the Ministry of Defence cut off its UFO hotline.
- In 1979, the highlands of Scotland was the scene of an extraordinary close encounter.
- ‘Before the 2009 International UFO Congress, if someone had told me you could see UFOs with special night vision scopes I would have said they were dreaming.’
- Mexico: Airliners and ‘unidentified traffic’.
- Mexico: UFOs over Iztapalapa.
- High strangeness at Punta Indio: Group sighting of gnomes. Yep, the gnomes I saw dove straight into the ground too.
- Survivalist instinct: Americans stocking up to be ready for end of the world.
- Research shows our rising hoarding instinct.
- Mike Taibbi (Matt’s dad): Beyond tears in Haiti. More tears.
- Still a bullsh*t special (published 4 July 2008): 9/11 third tower mystery ‘solved’.
- Government climbdown over David Kelly post-mortem report. No coroner’s inquest has ever been held. The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly died after cutting his wrist with a blunt gardening knife.
Thanks, Russ and terry1094!
Quote of the Day:
Sheriff of Nottingham: Locksley, I’m going to cut your heart out with a SPOON!
Robin Hood: Then it begins!
Sir Guy of Gisbourne, later: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an ax…
Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it’s DULL, you twit. It’ll hurt more!
