I won’t kid you – news is slow today. But I’ll give you what I’ve got…………
- Historians of the Stone Age fear that they will have to rip up their theories about Neanderthal Man after doubt has been cast on the carbon dating of skeletons.
- Textile fragments provide details of ancient lives.
- The first toilet and sewer system of prehistoric period has been found.
- Each day, more than 4,000-people visit the place where the mighty thunder god Zeus took the form of a great white bull and won the the love of a girl named Europa.
- Crocs may have evolved their tough skull before they turned amphibious.
- What secrets do the Masons hide, not even revealing them to most of their own members?
- How do UFOs, aliens, and alien abductions find a home at the conservative Baptist Baylor University?
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been stabilized. The Stabilized Tower of Pizza doesn’t have a ring to it.
- London’s Natural History Museum welcomes flesh-eating bugs.
- Do you want the truth about GM crops?
- Greenpeace is leading the charge to introduce a GM-food fear factor to the Chinese.
- An online bookmaker is taking bets on the outcome of 10 big scientific endeavors, including the search for life on other planets (10,000:1) and the quest to harness nuclear fusion (100:1) as a substitute for oil.
- An Australian inventor claims to have made the world’s first commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air.
- Recreational fishing seriously harms threatened species.
- From Southern Australia to Scotland to Northern California, entrepreneurs are seeking to generate electricity by channeling the energy of the Earth’s oceans.
- The Unknown Life of Lobsters: Sex, Robots, and Beyond.
- Mother Nature may give you a toke. A cannabis-like substance is produced by the brain that may keep you from going nuts.
- From concept to Megalon – everything you always wanted to know about Godzilla. This could be important if you are Japanese, a 9-year old boy, or both.
- Tons of flying tomatoes streaked the streets red and left 20,000 visitors wallowing in a pond of pulped fruit as a tiny Spanish town celebrated the world’s largest food fight.
- Scientists vote Blade Runner best ever sci-fi film.
- The United States is preparing for a global flu epidemic.
- A Cuban woman shipped herself in a wooden crate to the United States.
- A 16-year old girl was hanged for having a sharp tongue.
- You can kiss your sovereignty goodbye. The European Union is rapidly descending into Soviet-style totalitarianism. The U.S. is right behind them.
- You can blame NASA for the peculiar weather.
- Doctors might soon ask, ‘What’s your sign?’
- Scientists discount the full moon’s influence on events.
- Magnets may not really work for pain.
- Chupacabra’s cousin is found in Valparaiso.
- Tunguska? If any people are more gullible about Unidentified Flying Objects than Americans, it’s the Russians.
- Unexplainable phenomena have been said to happen at thousands of churches throughout time, but on an early December 2000 morning at San Juan Bautista Mission, even a scientist was astonished.
- NIDS investigates the Flying Triangle enigma.
- NASA’s redesigned space shuttle fuel tanks should no longer shed dangerous pieces of foam when launches resume next spring.
- The ancient history of Venus may have included water and life.
- The Beagle 2 mission team bites back.
Quote of the Day:
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep… in a giant blender.
Homer Simpson
