Tell us a lie, you’re the piano man…
- Mystery ‘piano man‘ (who on closer inspection doesn’t seem to live up to his name) speaks up and is sent home to his parents in Germany.
- Editor explains reasons for Intelligent Design article, and the witch-hunt that followed.
- Allison Dubois sees dead people.
- Sleep paralysis leaves people fearing for their sanity – and their lives.
- Synthesiser pioneer Dr Robert Moog passes away, aged 71.
- Scientists find a way around using embryonic stem cells.
- Mars rover nears summit of the hill it has been climbing all year.
- 2029: A Near-Miss Odyssey when Apophis skims the Earth.
- Hubble scans for Moon base locations. ‘Future’ locations that is…
- Plans for the world’s first silent aircraft unveiled.
- NUFORC’s Peter Davenport speaks at Hopskinsville Green Man festival. More on the festival here.
- NASA images show ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka?
- Peruvian pyramids rival the pharaohs’.
- Mexico digs up Aztec sacrificial stone.
- Our ‘junk DNA‘ may be quite helpful after all.
- The cold, hard facts about cryonics…literally.
- Japan aims for 3D TV by 2020. Perhaps the rest of us should focus on making TV watchable.
- Chimpanzee culture confirmed. I could have told you that…do you see chimps watching reality TV?
- Mugging goes hi-tech – man arrested in Japan for getting software bots to beat up and rob characters in online game, going on to exchange the virtual possessions for real-life cash. Mis-ter Anderson?
- Student uncovers lost Einstein paper.
- Researchers develop mass-production of carbon nanotube sheets.
- Synthetic biologists attempt to create life from scratch. I wonder if one of their subjects at University is devoted to practice at saying “It’s alive, it’s alive” manically?
- Scientists unveil plans for a digital library of all life on Earth. I recommend putting ‘Don’t Panic’ on the front cover.
- VR goggles heal the scars of war.
- But video games are linked to aggression. Hmm, so going by the previous story, the only decent VR thing is a simulation of war? That just makes me so angry, I’m off to play some Counterstrike.
- New Google toolbar watches as you work, and gives you real-time help. If the CIA doesn’t have its fingers in Google and other search companies, it won’t take them long…
- There’s no stopping them! Evangelical scientists move on from refuting evolution, now debunking gravity with their Intelligent Falling theory……
Quote of the Day:
Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth’s temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.
Stephen Jay Gould