Today we have life-extending pills, the Star of Bethlehem and Randi versus the grilled cheese sandwich. It’s not easy to define TDG news…
- Life-extending pill about to be released, amidst scientific reservations.
- Study finds benefit in GM crops.
- Maverick scientist’s theory on the Earth’s core up for a test.
- The origin of life on Earth – a chapter from the book Origins: 14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Amazon US and UK).
- Astrobiology takes a look at the collapsed canyon of Mars.
- Experts see challenges in exploration beyond Earth’s orbit.
- Welsh University to study the Star of Bethlehem. Now there’s a fresh idea, and Christmas just around the corner too. Excuse me while I scrape the cynicism off my walls.
- Is your spiritual capacity all a function of your brain chemistry? If suffering from lowered spiritual capacity, I always recommend medication to change your brain chemistry for the better.
- Randi gets all fired up about grilled cheese sandwiches and the Sci-Fi Channel in this week’s newsletter.
- Man tries to pin down proof of the paranormal, but Randi’s ready for him too. He’s everywhere, he’s everywhere…
- President Clinton ordered psychic spies to contact the Loch Ness monster – just one of the boring details in The Men Who Stare at Goats (Amazon US and UK). Where’s that Randi when you need him?
- Raelians name Eminem as an honorary priest for his message of non-violence. Dammit, I keep projecting the big Randi emblem on the clouds, but he just won’t answer my call….
- California UFO sightings remain a mystery.
- More news on the Flores hobbit. I say we do genetic matching with Elijah Wood to settle this.
- Swiss endorse stem cell research. Maybe they have bladder problems?
- EU gets tough on fusion reactor project.
- UK scientists design device to probe the limits of physics.
- The ticking timebombs off the coast of the UK.
- Plant-derived poisons are the latest fashion in India.
- Stress ages chromosomes by 10 years. I suddenly feel so old…
- Scientist says FDA called journal to block Vioxx article.
- The quest for artificial gravity. I hate gravity, its always bringing me down.
Quote of the Day:
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
Former President Woodrow Wilson (1913)
