News so late, it’s practically from tomorrow.
- New Mars Express photos of Cydonia give ‘The Face’ an upside down makeover. But, hey, isn’t that a ‘great’ pyramid in the enlargement of the third photo down? 😉
- Shuttle UFOs litter space.
- Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early universe.
- Astronomers discover supernova so large it forces questions on star death.
- Space Station toxic chemical leak under control.
- Atlantis astronaut collapses during welcome-home ceremony.
- The Big Question: Is this 3.3 million-year-old fossil of an ape-girl the missing link?
- Selam, the three-year-old from 3.3m years ago: Excitement over skeleton with human lower body but ape-like upper body.
- How come paleontologists wait so long to release their findings?
- Brits are nearly all Celts under the skin.
- Tuberculosis helped bring down Mastodons.
- Ice cracks at North Pole, but oceans have cooled over last three years.
- Mass movements of tiny krill are key to ocean turbulence.
- Seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica is reaching record size previously seen in 2000 and 2003.
- Biologists want help cracking their ‘miracle’ discovery of three fish inside a sealed duck egg.
- The CDC wants routine testing for HIV from ages 13 to 64. Why stop at age 64? Apparently the CDC is unaware that sex medications are fueling the spread of HIV in the elderly. Here’s a Sploid flashback on Senior Citizens and STDs.
- Experts say it’s time to move the Mississippi River.
- Provocative new study claims Hurricanes Katrina and Rita helped stabilize coastal wetlands by depositing tons of silt and sediment.
- One man’s heroics during Katrina’s seven days of Super Dome hell.
- Hacker group Hacktivismo launches ‘Torpark’, a web browser that promises to protect the privacy of Internet surfers from ‘hostile governments’ or ‘data thieves’.
- Internet privacy lessons from the Facebook Riots.
- Shape-shifting metal to create roll-up monitors.
- Album Art: reinvented for internet downloads.
- Bias against female scientists is due to tradition, culture; not due to differences in ambition, ability, or performance.
- Eighty unexpected radiation ‘hot spots’ found in New York City.
- Toxic chemicals found in every food product tested. No wonder, we feel, so unwell.
- Does washing fruits and vegetables make them safer to eat?
- Autism: What happens when nerve cells can’t make contact?
- Alzheimer’s may ‘seed’ itself like mad cow disease.
- AIDS discoverer hopeful about new vaccine approach.
- The growing practice of embryo eugenics, and the deliberate crippling of children.
- New solutions for the reality of drought.
- Maglev train crash highlights high-speed risk.
- Virgin boss Richard Branson pledges $3 billion towards the green revolution, but some people aren’t impressed.
- The Pupillometer: looks like binoculars, but it’s makers says that in seconds it can scan an individual’s pupils to detect if they’re on drugs, and what kind, whether marijuana, cocaine, or alcohol. They claim the device can also detect abnormalities from chemical and biological ‘effects’, as well as natural disasters, or, in the case of, say, a tractor trailer driver, detect if he’s too tired to drive his rig.
- Innovator devises way around US Constitution’s Electoral College.
- Iraqi insurgents now kidnap people with their cars, rig the cars with explosives, release the unwitting victims on a prechosen road, and then blow them up remotely. Unfortunately, this sounds like a technique that’s likely to spread.
- Five Years Later: The Official 9/11 Story Falls Apart.
- Venezuela’s Chavez tells UN general assembly the world faces choice between US hegemony and human survival. (Article includes US government reactions, and the full text of Chavez’s UN speech.)
- Political pot luck: Funny, predictable, or scary (depending on your definition of ‘good intelligence’).
- The Magic Mushroom and the Stargate.
Thanks Baldrick.
Quote of the Day:
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.
From Tomorrow And Tomorrow, In the Court of the Crimson King, 1969.
The nostalgic can click here to hear an mp3 of the title cut (at an unrelated website).
