News Briefs 10-02-2010

I think there's enough leftover for RPJ tomorrow.

• Radical theory of what came before the Big Bang proposed by physicists.
• NASA finds evidence of liquid water on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
• Tree carving in California hints at ancient astronomy.
• Sumatran tiger may be extinct within 5 years.
• Less than two dozen Amur tigers are left in the wild of Siberia/China.
• Birds may use their feathers to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers.
• Awww, photos of a cat who befriended a deer.
• First full-body true colour rendering of a feathered dinosaur.
• 165-million-year-old spider fossil: you can see the hairs on its legs!
• Extremely rare video of a giant oar-fish in Gulf of Mexico.
• Why are Galapagos sea lions moving to Peru? Better than outer space.
• Glyphs & stucco portrait among finds in Maya military chief's tomb.
• 1800-year-old Greek church in Turkey to be restored.
• Iran cuts ties with British Museum over Cyrus Cylinder (not nukes!).
• Pentagon wants to breed immortal synthetic organisms, with kill switch.
• Third-hand smoke found on hair & clothing just as dangerous as cigarette fumes.
• India awaits GM crop greenlight despite scientists' warnings. The photo is priceless.
• Study links sugary soft drinks to pancreas cancer. So glad I quit.
• Could frankincense be a cure for cancer? No, not Frankenstein, RPJ. ;-)
• Air passengers stunned by talking robot. So that's what the CIA uses for Osama.
• Robot Princess & The Seven Dwarfs: robot stars in South Korean play. With all the botox, most 'human' actors are robots anyway.
• Nick Redfern is annoyed with the straight-laced seriousness of the modern UFO research movement. Just trying to make it a legit business imho.
• A plethora of UFO theories that don't involve space-traveling aliens.
• Billy Cox laments the lack of Roswell stuff in FOIA docs.
• Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google street view car.

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

"True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self."

William Butler Yeats