“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit…”
- Hawking warns that mankind will be extinct within a century unless we colonize space. More here about our need to “flee Earth”.
- Increase in fires and floods may be linked to climate change. Russian heat-wave and floods in Asia offer stark evidence.
- Hypoxia in the oceans – a harbinger of trouble on the horizon, regardless of cause.
- Meanwhile, ice island breaks off of Greenland, in case we missed previous harbinger.
- Did the Earth shed it’s skin?
- Rocks as old as the Earth itself.
- Neptune is being followed.
- Jupiter: Swallower of worlds?
- Gamma rays detected in nova for the first time.
- Rare star discovered by trio of armchair astronomers.
- Will telepathy replace email? Send me a thought-mail and I’ll think back to you.
- Stonehenge falls into disrepair, courtesy of the UK. Where’s Nigel when we need him?
- Da Vinci Code’s noted Rosslyn Chapel is visible sans scaffolding for the first time in years.
- Rendlesham Forest, 1980 – UFO… or lighthouse?
- Psychic looking for missing girl finds different woman. Leading skeptic
unimpressed. - Anthropologists discover bones that push back ancient tool use 1 million years.
- The climate, 445 million years ago.
- A world without antibiotics?
- Predicting Alzheimer’s with 100% accuracy.
- 2012: The year we make contact with…
- 2182: The year ‘Deep Impact’ becomes a reality?
- Citizen rocketeers unite!
- A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars changed everything.
Danke to Sir Greg of Taylor, Sir RP of J and Gary Kurtz!
Quote of the Day:
“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
S. Hawking
