One of the saddest things is when science becomes political.
- The Pentagon would like its planes to act more like plants. All obvious comments about political leadership and vegetables in the comments section please.
- I can’t work out if this one is serious or a joke: Mel Brook’s son gives seminars on fighting the living dead.
- Blueprints for terrorists? Sensitive blueprints to nuclear installations available on government websites.
- Biodiversity losses threaten world’s 900 million rural poor.
- Hidden in a British Museum basement: the lost Ark looted by colonial raiders
- The Gubernator’s stance on stem cell research puts him on a collision course with his party. Then again, he was denied marital bliss after supporting Bush. Which is worse?
- Gulf War Syndrome does exist after all, according to the US. Now can they please tell their British cousins?
- Now you can get a diamond finish for cars and bikes. What real biker would ride such a Liberace racer?
- Those enigmatic Black Triangle UFOs are at it again, this time over Chicago.
- A Tiawanese man can hear earthquakes coming.
- Part two of the BBC’s “Planet Under Pressure” series looks at the looming world water crisis.
- Indian authorities have launched an urgent investigation after historians reported that the Taj Mahal was leaning and in danger of sinking.
- Tearing up the weblogs right now, there is speculation on whether the CIA is suppressing a 9/11 report that names those responsible for intelligence failures.
- The oldest clay fireplaces ever found, 30,000 years old, have been unearthed in Greece
- Ireland’s most important Viking site is under threat from a bypass road, but groups are calling for a full excavation.
- Strange things to do with Grandma’s ashes: blast them into space, tie them to a balloon or turn them into diamonds.
- A court in San Fransisco has ruled that whales and dolphins cannot sue President Bush.
- Yo robot! The use of robots is to soar sevenfold by 2007, they say.
- Latest findings about the human genome indicate that humans aren’t all that complicated, about the same as a mustard green.
- Various Pentagon programs are coming together to produce a sci-fi superwarrior for the 2040s.
- Recent articles speculate on the future of the Transhumanist movement and whether it poses a threat to the future of humanity itself.
- Earth’s spin warps space around the planet, according to a new study that confirms a key prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
- There are plans to resume drilling in Lake Vostok beneath the Antarctic ice, despite risks of contamination of the lake.
- A six year old who would have died is cured by a new stem-cell treatment.
- Some say climate change will devastate the lives of million, others that it is the least of our worries. The politicising and partisan funding of science makes sure no-one really knows what is going on.
Quote of the Day:
“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”
Terry Pratchett
