Allardyce T. Merriweather would tell you, “Those stars twinkle in a void, dear boy, and the two-legged creature schemes and dreams beneath them all in vain.” But of course, he tended to lose parts of himself, and he was gettin’ whittled down pretty serious when he said that.
- Orwell Alert: New algorithm allows computer analysis of simple audio recordings of keyboard clicks to recover 96% of what was typed.
- Open Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye.
- Bronze Age town dating from 1,900 BC discovered on Andros.
- Secret of Delphi found in ancient farmer’s manual.
- China’s equivalent of the Evolution-Schmevolution debate: Is Feng Shui science or superstition?
- New high-tech bath may save ancient manuscripts.
- 3D wizardry rebuilds ancient Rome – and it doesn’t look anything like Hollywood imagined.
- Fossil Hunters: A tale of discovery in Mongolia.
- NASA plans to spend $100 billion and the next 12 years building the spacecraft and rockets it needs to put humans back on the Moon by 2018.
- What caused the cataclysmic asteroid assault on Earth some 3.9 billion years ago?
- Almost 180 million miles from Earth, a Japanese probe is now within 12 miles of an asteroid, in an unprecedented rendezvous designed to retrieve rocks from its surface.
- Cassini spies spokes in Saturn’s rings.
- Alan Bean rode the Apollo 12 mission all the way to the moon, and on the way back he made a promise to himself: a review of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth. Amazon US & UK.
- The truth is out there — and it may be as close as your own backyard.
- On ‘Coast to Coast,’ George Noory hears it all. Which is why we tell you who’s on every week.
- Decoding the secret world of Opus Dei.
- Debate rages as medium finds body in lake.
- ‘Rasta’, a newly-discovered third strain of cannabis, contains more THC.
- Could humans tackle hurricanes?
- Scientists say global warming is “past the point of no return.”
- This substance is probably more widely used than anything except water, but as Rodney Dangerfield would say, it don’t get no respect, although changes are afoot.
- Researchers create DNA-based Sensors for Nano-Tongues and Nano-Noses.
- ‘Magic paint brush‘ allows user to pick up colours and textures from the environment and paint with them on a digital screen. Does this mean no more Crayola’s?
- With only 3% of breeding stock remaining, southern bluefin tuna faces extinction.
- Satellites Spot the Mighty Mississippi – in the Atlantic.
- Katrina Destroyed Years of Medical Research.
- Jesse Sullivan’s bionic arm.
- 65% of world’s citizens do not think their country is governed by the will of the people. Only in Scandinavia and South Africa do a majority believe that they are ruled according to their wishes.
- Global poll on attitudes toward authority shows Europeans are biggest sceptics about people in power.
- In the U.S., 40% want religious leaders to have more power.
- The Discovery of Personal Hygiene.
- Traumas as Social Interactions: the victim progresses through stages of grief, from denial to helplessness, rage, depression and thence to acceptance of the traumatizing events – while society demonstrates a diametrically opposed progression.
- Keeping a stiff upper lip during upsetting events can impair your memory.
- Brainwashing: A new way to treat drug abuse (in rats, at least).
- Sociologists ponder the phenomenon of celebrity.
- US poultry giant, Tyson, faces segregation scandal.
- Afghan women defy death threats to stand in election.
- Another view on intelligent design: The end of darkness and excerpts from The Laws of Life. Amazon US & UK.
Quote of the Day:
…alchemy was never something that people believed in; it was something that people did.
Bruce Moran, author of Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry and the Scientific Revolution. (Amazon US & UK).
