In this world a man who is a criminal to some, can be a hero to others.

• 3rd Reich, but only 1 ball: Rumours about Adolf's little secret are confirmed.
• Judge a tyrant by the size of his tomb: New findings at King Herod's mausoleum. And click here for a Nat Geo video clip.
• Harvard will return 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico. A century of delay is better than never.
• And things are looking good for the Italians in that loot-returning department, too.
• What's stranger than Dark Matter? To answer that, you need to go to Antarctica... and don't forget the big balloon —no, not *that* kind of balloon.
• Star Trek: DSI... as in Deep Space Internet.
• NASA looses spider on the ISS. Boy, it's almost like the pitch for a sci-fi horror movie!
• Guillermo del Toro, the Aztec god of Cinema —and discoverer of the 30-hour-day— will produce a darker version of 'Pinocchio'.
• Mr. Molina goes to Washington: Mexican Nobel laureate is hired by Obama to work on climate change.
• Cold fusion researchers write a letter stating their case to President-Elect Obama. And if that doesn't work, there's always Santa Claus.
• Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol is bad for your karma; and not just for the damage o the Amazon.
• Is global warming forcing Bigfoot to move north, or will the big guy stay put, now that Palin's back in her turf?
• Pleistocene Park, here we come! Scientists have sequenced the genome of the extinct woolly mammoth.
• The windpipe: a small part for a man, a giant leap for modern medicine.
• The £350,000 Iron Age neckband discovered by one man and his metal detector, that has our Rick green with Viking envy.
• Happy Birthday, Anthropology. So what kind of cake would you like?
• The perfect gift for Claude Lévi-Strauss, the great French anthropologist, on his 100th birthday: a nice pair of jeans! ;-)
• Korean Soldiers Get New Halo-y Armor. But how de we know it's really Covenant-proof?
• If you're the UN, how do you spend 25 million dollars: On medicines for South America, or Food for Africa? Wait, I have an even better idea...
• Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true'. No sh*t!!

Thanks Greg, Rick & Kat (Get well!)

Quote of the Day:

It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!

Emiliano Zapata (who was killed mounted on his horse)