News Briefs 03-12-2012

The latest examples of why I voted YES: here, here, and here.

• New timeline proposed for the building of Stonehenge.
• DNA is directly photographed for the first time -- and it's a much tighter spiral than you've probably imagined.
• The hunt for water in the heavens.
• Geologists' bitter controversy over age of the Grand Canyon. Satellite view treats you to a Grander Canyon.
• Chain reaction of expanding magma chambers that descended into the Earth triggered 2010 volcanic eruption in Iceland.
• Britain's Natural History Museum is set to showcase the 22 most prized artifacts of its 70-million strong collection.
• Sons of a Cold War scientist who died after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sue the federal government.
• The first installment of a three-day series on the controversial use of the drug Ecstasy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Part two.
• Dispersant makes oil from spills 52 times more toxic.
• The drone that cripples enemy electronics at the touch of a button.
• Who do online advertisers think you are? Looks like inaccurate pigeonholing is our digital destiny.
• Munchausen by Internet: Faking illnesses online.
• Flickering stars: Could aliens be sending us signals?
• New York City police officers arrested nearly 600,000 people for marijuana possession between 1996 and 2011 on the assumption this would lower crime rates. They were wrong.
• Handwriting experts say America's first serial killer was likely also Jack the Ripper.
• Catholic Church sets up exorcist hotline to cope with growing demand.
• How doctors and patients are kept in the dark about potentially dangerous drugs.
• Is medical marijuana safe for children?
• Stoners aren’t known for their memory prowess but drugs similar to marijuana’s active ingredients may prevent — or even reverse — brain aging and possibly Alzheimer‘s and other degenerative brain diseases.
• Taking Vitamin D may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
• Autism and air pollution: the link grows stronger.
• Toxic flame retardant chemicals abundant in house dust and sofas. Known carcinogens in large concentrations in your home are probably something to be aware of.
• New view from inside Fukushima: chaos and uncertainty.
• Too many one-night stands? Blame your genes.
• American Gut Project: Help out these scientists by sending them a stool sample, scrapings of your skin and more.
• Ten animals that are smarter than you think.

Quote of the Day:

Look, I know that people will probably try to lynch me when I say this, but Bishop [James] Ussher wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said that it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't. You go back in time, you've got radiocarbon dating. You got all these things and you've got the carcasses of dinosaurs frozen in time out in the Dakotas.

They're out there. So, there was a time when these giant reptiles were on the Earth and it was before the time of the Bible. So, don't try and cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years. That's not the Bible.

Televangelist Pat Robertson, in response to a viewer who wrote in to 700 Club saying her 'biggest fear is to not have my children and husband next to me in God's Kingdom because they question why the Bible could not explain the existence of dinosaurs.'