News Briefs 21-06-2007

It's all relative. I'm freezing my butt off today, in temperatures which had London marathon runners collapsing due to heat exhaustion...

• Archaeologist sparks hunt for the Holy Grail.
• Da Vinci obscenity case dropped in Italy.
• Is there a 450-year-old Spanish galleon waiting to be found near Brisbane, Australia? 'Scuse me while I go get some diving gear...
• Virtual Qumran sheds light on mysteries of Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Buddhist lama sets up a Myspace page.
• It's that magical time of the Summer Solstice once again (or, Winter Solstice as the case may be...and boy is it wintery here today).
• 3D pyramid crop circle points way to Milk Hill White Horse.
• Lake monster hunter disappears.
• Why does 'Bigfoot Science' make such inroads into big business? Actually about tenuous ecological theories and 'carbon footprints'...not sure why Bigfoot got a mention apart from the foot reference.
• Happy Birthday Cognitive Dissonance.
• Sneak peek at Blade Runner Final Cut DVD packaging. Five disc package, great artistic presentation....sweeeeeeet (h/t Mac Tonnies).
• Dubya vetoes stem cell bill. A year ago, Jon Stewart had the smackdown of 2006 on this topic...
• Human genome far more complex than previously imagined.
• Alan Boyle takes you inside the Big Bang machine.
• Is there more than one dimension of time?
• Mysterious sprites caught on film. Perhaps it's just swamp gas or the planet Venus?
• Do Black Holes really exist?
• Liquid mirror could be used for Moon-based telescope.
• Hubble photographs two huge asteroids.
• Yes - finally - you can have your own jet-pack flying machine.
• Ouch, I saw that! New form of synaesthesia has people feeling what they see. I'm guessing they're not fans of boxing...
• Identity thieves steal Herman Munster's credit card details.

Thanks Pam.

Quote of the Day:

Sooner or later, psychical research will demonstrate to the educated world, not only the existence of a soul in man, but also the existence of a soul in Nature

William Barrett