Ozzy Osbourne gives up swearing? The End Days are nigh, I tell you!
- Coming to a Bar-B-Q near you soon – genetically modified mosquitos.
- John Zaffis follows in the family business-ghosts.
- A caveful of clues in the Carpathians: early man and neanderthals may have interbred.
- Men and women misinterpret each others sexual signals for good evolutionary reasons.
- As reported by Greg on yesterday, the US sends Weapons-grade plutonium by British armed-merchantship to France for reprocessing. Heres some more detail.
- Plan to evacuate London in the event of a major terrorist event is found on a train
- Afraid of global warming? Maybe we should all just chill out.
- Forget the Marie Celeste, the Nigerian Navy has lost an entire oil tanker.
- Beating the Turing Test? Not yet, but “Alice” the chatty programme shows promise.
- The Vatican has produced a new dictionary of modern words in Latin, including translations for words like hot pants, punk and Lambrusco wine. Quis commes canis in fenestra?
- Google has been accused of supporting Chinese internet controls by omitting contentious news stories from search results in China.(This one’s for Thrustbucket with respect.)
- A study commissioned by a woman’s group proves women are better drivers because men drive like cavemen.
- A Tokyo official wants to make parents legally responsible for their kid’s sex lives. Lets legislate the impossible, shall we?
- Talking of impossible, Ozzy has vowed to stop swearing for charity!
- Want to look out your window and see somewhere exotic? The Virtual Window Project.
- Iranian woman wants only to be beaten once a week.
- A while back, TDG reported on microwave pain guns. Now they are to be deployed to Iraq next September. Guess that means the Pentagon expects to still be there…
- If you want to avoid the effects of global warming you should move to Missouri. There had to be one reason for moving to Missouri, I suppose
- Thousands of tons of toxic e-waste is being sent from Britain and other EU countries to the Third World.
- Someone is beheading religious statues in the Phillipines.
- The modernisation of China’s weaponry continues as a new cruise missile is tested. China also recently fielded new submarine and destroyer warship designs.
- Rejoice, for the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy has returned.
- Antartic glaciers once held back by an ice shelf that melted are now moving eight times faster into the sea.
- An English town is said to be a base for a worldwide secret society but an alleged member doesn’t show up to a meeting with a documentary crew.
- More on the ever-popular subject of when we get our flying cars.
- Scientists hope that “playing” a tiny guitar string, the smallest ever created, will help unravel some of the secrets of the molecular world.
- Waking the dead with Britain’s Paranormal Research Organisation.
- More about that Wiccan Wedding, and how witchcraft went from crime to prime time.
- Russia may be about to sign the Kyoto Protocol at last.
- Politics Warning! Please consider visiting the excellent Operation Truth website, run by U.S. veterans who have served in Iraq so that veterans and serving soldiers can talk about their experiences and views on the war. The soldiers deserve our support no matter how we feel about their political commanders.
- Israeli defence scientists have invented a synthetic “skunk” bomb for crowd control.
- The “new science” of how emotions and feelings affect health. Buddhists say “I told you so”. (Thanks to Rich for this item)
- Prof. Richard Wiseman wil today be leading a bid to unlock the secrets of the psychic world.
- Prof. Wiseman again, this time finding that mediums cannot do their thing under controlled conditions.
- A new UK science degree will concentrate on awareness of multiple disciplines. As someone once said “specialisation is for insects”.
- Is the liberal media in the U.S. mounting an anti-Christian crusade? Some would say so.
Quote of the Day:
“The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind ands matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor.”
Bertrand Russell
