Flying reptiles, real life Dr. Frankensteins, sci-fi weapons and fake UFOs…it must be TDG News.
- The mysterious disappearance of nuclear equipment from Iraq since the war causes concern about proliferation. More here. I feel soooooooo safe.
- The infamous “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico may have broken up, but it will be back next year.
- What killed off the giant mammals is still a mystery although humans are the prime suspects.
- Could your cellphone have caused a hurricane? This is marginally worse than leaving the infernal machine switched on at the movies, surely.
- A Rand Corp. report faults military technology during the invasion of Iraq.
- Following last weeks item on flying reptiles in Canada, a species of pterosaur may still be alive in Papua New Guinea.
- Reports that the US military are working on a pair of methods to develop electromagnetic pulse bombs or ‘e-bombs’ for real. Next year they may develop the ‘blue pill’.
- Strange activities in the skies of Ohio trigger fear and scepticism.
- For Halloween, why not take a ghost tour like this one at an old house near Pittsburgh.
- A crop circle research group certifies a Michigan formation as not made by human hand.
- The man who took the first British photo of a UFO in 1954 reveals it was a hoax.
- Controversy erupts over a statue of Sasquatch in British Columbia. If it gets built the pterosaurs will just come and sit on it anyway.
- The UK Government calls for backing of the Kyoto Protocol in the face of worldwide jumps in carbon dioxide levels.
- Harvard University scientists ask permission to clone human embryos for stem cell research.
- What is now a Ghanian lake was an asteroid impact only 1 million years ago, the youngest large impact known.
- The real life inspiration behind Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’.
- The Pentagon has plans to put mini-killers in space.
- Une étude prouve que ceux qui apprennent une deuxième langue ont une matière plus grise dans leurs cerveaux.
- Politics Warning! Workers for a company registering votes in Las Vegas spur an investigation, say they saw company officials rip up registrations for Democrats.
- The mysterious Callanish Stones of Scotland are to star in a webcast of a lunar event in 2006
- A new lab will spend $400 million in an attempt to photograph dreams.
- If your cellphone isn’t causing hurricanes, then it is causing cancer, say Swiss researchers.
- A Chinese fossil dubbed ‘the sleeping dragon’ shows dinosaurs slept in a bird-like posture.
- Coke or Pepsi? In fact it’s all in the mind.
- Scientists think they have found the key to hearing at long last.
- What have the Nazis ever done for us? Given us a lot of good medicine, according to the American Medical Association.
Quote of the Day:
“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
