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News Briefs 29-10-2004

Just in case some might not have understood Cernig yesterday, Happy Halloween. Election day in the USA is Tuesday. Eclectic mix in today’s news;Halloween section at the end. Comments welcome.

  • On the Day from Hell, one minute you’re a big T-Rex, the next minute you’re toast .
  • The discovery of seven tiny hominoids is so big, we’re linking an in-depth article from Archaeology.
  • Still hoping to get the globe-trotting, Nazi-battling archaeologist out of mothballs sometime before Harrison Ford is too old to crack his whip, a new screenwriter has been hired to come up with a story for Indiana Jones 4.
  • Meanwhile, long-lost, final Ed Wood film is found. If you don’t know who Ed Wood is, just forget it. It’s an acquired taste.
  • Fire-up those metal detectors. Britain’s amateur archaeologists have unearthed 50,000 treasures.
  • Give Machu Picchu a rest. The ancient city of Kuelap emerges from the clouds.
  • Iranian archeologists and surveyors plan to draw up an archeological map of Jiroft, home to a 5,000-year old civilization. Better maps than nuclear weapons programs.
  • Fool’s gold delivers perfect fossils.
  • What causes fear in you? Students fear clowns and goatsuckers.
  • Sunspots are more active than they’ve for 8000-years, but that doesn’t explain global warming. Go figure.
  • The future of alternative energy. Shove some tax credit my direction and I’ll put a solar roof on the house.
  • Compulsory identity cards that can be used as a travel document in Europe are to be introduced within four years. Papers, please, papers. Go ahead, get the chip.
  • Drug may block Alzheimer’s.
  • Drinking red wine could protect against lung cancer but white wine may increase the risk.
  • Russian scientists have invented a unique anti-aging solution.
  • Physicists say the Big Bang was nothing special.
  • The problem with gravity.
  • Fingerprint evidence not good science.
  • A Russian expert says the flu epidemic may kill over one-billion this year.
  • Darwin’s skeptics have pointed out that something as complex as the eye is difficult to explain by evolutionary theory. So here’s the explanation.
  • Speaking of evolution, there were myriad forks in the evolutionary road, several leading to intelligence.
  • Scientists discover the ‘mystery products’ used to preserve mummies.
  • Scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican’s mind different from a Democrat’s using brain scan technology.
  • The mystery of the alien skull continues.
  • Filers Files: The Ohio UFO Flap.
  • Was HP Lovecraft a believer in the paranormal? Ask the Black Goat of the Woods, Shub-Niggurath, and Cthulhu.
  • Zecharia Sitchin asks, ‘Should I be pleased that a respected astronomer at a leading French observatory adopted my conclusions regarding Nibiru and the Sumerian cosmogony –- or should I be upset that my life’s work was “appropriated” without any acknowledgement and credit to me?’
  • Astronomers chart the asteroid threat.
  • A stellar survivor from 1572 A.D. explosion supports the supernova theory.
  • Saturn’s moon Titan mystifies scientists. Those same hydrocarbons is what began life on this planet.
  • Halloween stuff to follow: Haunted Places in Texas. Paranormal research shares haunting tales. Tales spooky and otherwise. Halloween bedevils some U.S. churches. In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is a festive occasion. Halloween masks will scare you out of your senses. An finally, Fancy Halloween costumes for pooches can cost hundreds. I’ll bet they can.

Quote of the Day:

Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodied have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.

William Motherwell

  1. Little Big Man
    Hi Bill,

    The web and other media have been awash with news of our new cousin from Indonesia this last couple of days. Yet everywhere I look I see him or her described as a “creature”. How refreshing, then, to have Desmond Morris put his finger on what really matters here: How would we treat this close relative if one were found alive today? Mr Morris writes;
    “Suppose for a moment that a living tribe of these beings is discovered, how should they be treated?
    Are they merely advanced apes, or are they miniature humans?
    If an explorer brought back one of their infants to study, would you put him down for Eton or the Zoo?
    A cast of the 18,000-year-old ‘Hobbit’s’ skull
    If he died, would he be buried in consecrated ground or a pet cemetery?
    His very existence among us would make us question all over again, what it is to be human.”

    Regards, C

    1. Not captured
      “but none have yet been captured or examined by scientists”

      That is taken from the linked article (Archaeology).

      Unfortunately, the Geneva convention will not apply in this case either.

  2. Asteroid impact…
    Regarding the theory of the charbroiled dinos, the only reason I see behind some people still defending it is profit or some kind of “I will not take it back” attitude.

    It is refreshing to see scientist challenging “T.V. documentary friendly” theories, like the big-bang.

    Why bother commenting about this in such an open-minded website, you might ask? Well, sometimes is better to state the obvious.

    As many TDG readers already know, these theories shape our perception of the universe, history and many sciences. If they are weak or flawed, so is our perception. After all, they are just theories, does not matter how many individuals swear by them.

  3. KATYA: INDIANA JONES 4, 5, 6, 7…
    SALVE BILL,
    And yet It would be fine to see Indiana Jones,
    old old, without teeth and creacky knees
    that jumps from motorcycle to horse
    tossing the whip.
    HUGSHUGS
    Katya

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