A mixed bag today; from dinosaurs to crazy Australians.
- More detail on the story reported by Greg on Tuesday about America’s earliest settlers. Oscar Wilde said once “America has been discovered before, but it was always hushed up”.
- Want some revisionist history? The defenders of the Alamo were slave traders and land grabbers.
- An unmarked black helicopter has been harassing a U.S. community.
- The fourth great breakthrough in aeronautical history: the fanwing aeroplane. Try the makers website too, although it has recently been out of service due to bandwidth quotas being exceeded.
- Visit the virtual Buddha. An online view of Buddhist art and a meditative surfing experience.
- SF author Bruce Sterling gives a scathing opinion on the “singularity” reported by Greg recently: it’s just a wet dream for techno-geeks.
- Mathematicians may be on the verge of solving one of the great maths problems, and coincidentally ending e-commerce overnight.
- Enter the very strange world of underground Paris.
- Dog makes important archeological find in New Mexico. Maybe we should send the dog to Roswell to see what it sniffs out.
- The family of the man who found a Viking runestone in turn of the century Minnesota say he was no hoaxer.
- Global Warming could kill millions of humans.
- More from the Dutch medium who takes photos of spirits that look like Grays.
- As you probably know by now, NASA’s Genesis probe crashed on re-entry when it’s parachute failed to open.
- There may be a silver lining, however. This article appeared within a few hours of the crash. I wonder if it was pre-written?
- Concrete evidence for Dark Matter as it tugs at a galactic cluster.
- Two explorers are going in search of the Orang Pendek, or “jungle Yeti”.
- Dinosaurs may have been doting parents.
- Most violent deaths are not due to murder or war, but suicide. Go donate to the Samaritans, people.
- Some UAV news this week, as a new flying rotor design debuts. At the same time, the US Army’s unmanned helicopter program has it’s problems.
- Australians are tough: prison inmates milk deadly spiders to get high.
- Drug resistant microbes are becoming resistant to disinfectants too.
- Dark matters surround dark energy: the possibility of new weapons of mass destruction or even the “Big Rip” which could end the Universe.
Quote of the Day:
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
