News Briefs 23-11-2012

”Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

• Curious about what’s really happening on 12.21.12… Ask the Mayan elders.
• Curious about Curiosity’s history making news? Join the club…
• Searching cosmic voids for dark energy.
• The death shroud of a gas giant, revealed.
• Deciphered 250 year-old code reveals secret society.
• Infrared UFOs filmed in Melbourne.
• China sets out to build world's tallest building in 90 days.
• Pyramids under the microscope.
• To the moon… privately. Watch for levitating dust.
• Re-scheduling Christmas, courtesy of the Vatican.
• The brain as computer.
• Need a silent plane? Go ask the owls.
• Need more cartilage? Just hit print.
• Two words… Switzerland tsunami.
• Death of Gulf of Mexico dolphins leads to 30k reward.
• Color of black dahlia, demystified.
• Information… a history.
• A global warming timeline.
• Unearthing the Buddhas of Mes Aynak... with your kickstarter help.
• Need to evade capture by 007? Start here.
• Who needs an ipad when you’ve got a Honeywell?
• The overdue beginning of the end of shark fin soup.
• When fetuses yawn.
• Leopard snaps award-winning photo.
• Wampa ice scraper finally available.
• This week’s evidence of the looming robot uprising… dancing spider ‘bots.

Heartfelt thanks to all friends, family and forebears -- And thanks to RPJ for the links!

Quote of the Day:

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

G. Bernard Shaw