You’ve probably seen Volkswagon’s SuperBowl ad, featuring an adorable pint-sized Darth Vader attempting to use The Force. These outtakes are even funnier.
- Looters stole 18 items from the Egyptian Museum. Around 70 objects — many of them small statues — were damaged. Photos of some of the missing pieces.
- BBC video: Feb. 6th interview with Zahi Hawass on the Egyptian protests.
- Discovery that Australopithecus had arched feet suggests human ancestor had abandoned life in the trees.
- Mitochondrial DNA sheds new light on Polynesian Migration.
- Digging deep in the sands of time: Archaeologists unearth a goldmine of history in Sudan.
- A frog evolved to regain the teeth its ancestors jettisoned.
- Scientists hunting for giant prehistoric rat fossils stumble across ancient rock portraits, up to 12,000 years old, in a large cave on East Timor.
- Calling all historians: Quick! Save these 47,000 personal memories of World War II — before the BBC deletes them forever. Some of the 172 websites the Beeb will soon flush.
- Nile River row: Could it turn violent?
- Up telescope! Search begins for giant new planet: Tyche may be bigger than Jupiter and orbit at the outer edge of the solar system.
- Why infertility will stop humans colonising space.
- Astronauts could ride asteroids to Mars.
- Spinning black holes twist light.
- Spacecraft that can make decisions, have desires and reason like human beings are being developed by British scientists and the European Space Agency. Guess they didn’t see the movie.
- Video: ISS to receive record-breaking amount of supplies.
- 33 percent of Russians think the sun orbits the Earth. In the US, it’s 28 percent.
- Global data storage calculated at 295 exabytes.
- Suffering from information overload yet? We’re now bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data every day.
- 2045: The year man becomes immortal? Ray Kurzweil is convinced.
- World’s Total CPU Power: One Human Brain.
- Humans vs super computer match-up begins tonight on Jeopardy.
- ‘Thinking cap’ makes brain waves in Australia.
- Did you remember to charge your new eyeglasses today?
- Air Force ups wave power efficiency to 99 percent.
- Auto-start video and news article: Earthships, the eco-friendly, energy-efficient homes made of used tires and other garbage.
- Food Prices: Crisis deepens as biofuels consume more crops.
- Live near southern San Andreas fault? Look out! The Big One’s overdue! Scientists detail the likely impact of The Big One.
- Sleepwalking linked to chromosome fault.
- Why illegal drugs are destroying the little Amazon: Traffickers will do anything to get their priceless cargo into the US – including razing pristine forest, writes Huw Hennessy in Honduras.
- Einstein was right – honey bee collapse threatens global food security.
- Oyster Apocalypse? Truth About Bivalve Obliteration.
- Undead microbes may influence biodiversity.
- Is ‘race’ a social construct? Ask your genome.
- Woman saves husband from tiger attack in Malaysian jungle by beating the beast on the head with a wooden ladle.
- Six giant blind spots in all the movie-aliens’ invasion strategies. With regard to real aliens, it’s a different story…
- MSNBC Video: Man’s alien abduction remains a mystery. Abnormal tree growth and unusual radiation aren’t considered ‘evidence’.
- What science could teach dictators about the likelihood of revolution. How much freedom do you expect to have?
- Tunis yesterday, Cairo today, London tomorrow?
- The Real Internet Censors: Unaccountable ISPs.
- Organized Crime: The World’s Largest Social Network.
- How a remote town in Romania has become ‘Cybercrime Central’.
- Underground Caverns Keep Things Cold, Safe… and Secret.
Thanks to… uhh… a bunch of people for help with today’s news.
Quote of the Day:
Love is a grave mental disease.
Plato, Greek philosopher
