Not sure why I bothered today. I’m still reading through Rick’s wonderful news collection from yesterday…
- Richard Branson to send a medical officer to talk with physicist Stephen Hawking about the possibility of getting him in to space.
- NASA plans on permanent Moon base after 2020.
- A hitchhikers guide to astrobiology.
- Stunning snaps from the best camera ever sent to Mars.
- Russia studies space-elevator clusters for Moon shipments. Beware Stephen Hawking!
- Fear and Loathing at the patent office – lest we forget those great inventors consigned to oblivion.
- The mystery of Sonar Boy.
- 50 metre high tsunami smashed Europe and the Middle East 8,000 years ago. Luckily, some crazy old dude put two of every animal on his boat.
- Was Stonehenge a hospital?
- Egypt moves entire village to unearth Pharaonic tombs at Luxor.
- Climate change killed Australian prehistoric animals. I’ll bet James Cook was happy about that…you’d never really want to settle a continent in which giant carnivorous kangaroos come hopping down the beach towards you as you plant your flag.
- Did starving Neanderthals eat each other?
- ‘Dream Detective‘ puts video evidence on the Internet.
- Send your wishes to the Moon with Selene.
- Can mathematics explain the art of Jackson Pollock? May as well give it a shot, the rest of us are drawing a blank.
- Stem cell advances offer hope to back up the hype.
- Bookslut reviews Gerald M. Edelman’s Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge (Amazon US and UK).
- Why are we here? There. No further back, there. Yes, there.
- Juicing the brain, in order that we may kill more efficiently. Once again, science bettering the world we live in….
- Are researchers searching for neurophysical correlates of subjective experiences thinking in tongues?
- Nothing like a good old book burning to get the congregation inflamed.
- Police spray water on roads in New Zealand to release the spirits of the dead.
- From the headlines you can’t make up department: Swedes guard Christmas goat from vandals.
Quote of the Day:
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
Terence McKenna
