News Briefs 05-11-2012

Yeah!!!!

• Idaho scientist Jeffrey Meldrum seeks to launch aerial Bigfoot search with blimp.
• Astronomers read the shadows of the Universe's earliest stars. Their guide? All the light from all the stars that have ever shone.
• You need just the right amount of killer asteroids to promote complex life.
• Curiosity rover gulps Mars air, finds hint of vanished atmosphere.
• Super-fast space travel would kill you in minutes.
• Egyptian princess's tomb found.
• Rare skeleton of 'vampire' discovered in Britain.
• Scientists find we can't empathise and analyse at the same time.
• How do you raise a prodigy?
• Seeing things? Hearing things? Many of us do.
• UFO sightings spook Indian soldiers in the India/Tibet border.
• 'Creepy Cameraman' pushes limits of public surveillance -- a glimpse of the future? (embedded video NSFW)
• A, O, B or AB: Can blood type really determine your personality?

Thanks, Red Pill Junkie.

Quote of the Day:

I'm struggling to start reading a book because it doesn't feel "live" enough compared to radio and Twitter. This is wrong.

Science reporter Ben Goldacre, in a tweet here.