News Briefs 10-03-2010

I think I remember how to do this, it's like riding a bike... without the LSD.

• Robin Hood & the Templars of Doom: hidden history in Sherwood Forest.
• Oxford mathematician & Wonderland explorer, The Mystery Of Lewis Carroll by Jenny Woolf (Amazon US & UK).
• Algebra in Wonderland; the science of Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll.
• Singalong-a sulcus: investigating how brains hear music & lyrics.
• Sputnik Observatory is a not-for-profit educational organisation dedicated to the study of contemporary culture. Guest features by Jacques Vallee, Colin Andrews, & much more. Looks brilliant.
• Lunar rock samples collected during Apollo missions suggest a wet interior. That explains this.
• Physicist claims warp speed will kill you. To timidly stay home & avoid strange new worlds...
• Ohio man films strange lights above Lake Erie over five nights.
• Unweaving the rainbow: beautiful photography, shame about the science proselytizing.
• Skeptic Ben Radford eloquently describes his visit to Machu Picchu. OMG, I actually agree with him -- and I don't have a fever! Even if he did misspell Machu Picchu.
• Excavated tomb reveals dynasty of priestesses on Crete.
• Sudan's forgotten pyramids: more mysteries than Egypt, without Zahi.
• DNA of extinct birds extracted from ancient eggshell.
• Experts seek 15th-century Chinese shipwrecks off the coast of East Africa.
• Trove of shipwrecks, one up to 800-years-old, found in Baltic Sea.
• The ultimate marine battle: great white shark vs giant squid.
• Crikey, that's not a yokai! Phantom kangaroos seen in Japan.
• In case Yokai Attack! please read (Amazon US & UK).
• The UFO Mystic tracks blue dogs & chupacabras in Texas.

Thanks Greg, Kat, & Joanne.

Quote of the Day:

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll