My experiences with telepathy caused me to notice something both interesting and annoying — the brain habitually echoes every thought by immediately trying to clothe it in words, even though I already know the full content of the thought without any words.
- The Pentagon wants a string of solar satellites to beam power to Earth.
- Light Fantastic: Flirting with invisibility.
- Cause of mammoths’ demise a tad less wooley.
- New theories about why dinosaurs died agonizing deaths.
- Early Europeans likely sacrificed their own.
- World’s oldest surviving book, the Dervenin papyrus, may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs. Large sections of the mid-4th century B.C. book — a philosophical treatise on ancient religion — were read years ago, but never officially published.
- Greek archaeologists find four intact tombs dating from the Mycenaean period.
- More Clues in the Legend (or Is It Fact?) of Romulus.
- Ancient Rome reborn in virtual reality.
- Professor proposes theory of unparticle physics.
- A shocking idea: Nerves may run on sound, not electricity.
- Can a Tiny Microphone Save the Bees — and the Food Supply?
- Space station’s new wings unfold.
- Mysterious signal hints at subsurface ocean on Titan.
- Researchers chart Internet ‘black holes’ – when packets are diverted to the wrong location, and lost forever.
- New drug found to reverse male pattern baldness.
- Eisenhower, scientists, and Sputnik. When men were men, and science advisors trusted.
- Envirocateclysm of the Week: Dirty snow may be warming Arctic as much as greenhouse gases.
- Researchers hope that immersing people in a virtual wildfire will encourage them to invest in prevention.
- Drinking a milkshake-style medicine at breakfast seems to feed brain cells starved from Alzheimer’s damage.
- Newly discovered antibody may be the body’s natural defense against Alzheimer’s.
- Drug that rejuvenates aging dopamine cells found to slow – and possibly halt – the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
- Japanese researchers engineer rice to carry cholera vaccine – to be delivered in a capsule or pill containing rice powder, not eaten.
- Boffins put encrypted bio-copyright watermarks in beer DNA.
- Newly identified ‘starvation hormone’ is responsible for low-carb diet’s effectiveness.
- Exploring the Mind-Body Orgasm. For more, check out The Science of Orgasm (Amazon US & UK).
- Need to make a decision? According to a surprising new study, it may help to get angry.
- Wisconsin Bigfoot sighting raises hairs. Includes photo of Bigfoot – trailed by what looks like the creature from the black lagoon.
- Philip K Dick: A sage of the future whose time has finally come.
- Anakin Skywalker: Borderline personality, bipolar or narcissist?
- Editor who was first to spot the potential of JK Rowling’s boy wizard claims to have found Potter’s successor in tale of boy archaeologist.
- Dante’s Inferno: A Virtual Tour of Hell. (flash)
- The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought.
- Eye-tracking device lets billboards know when you look at them.
- Which ISPs are spying on you? Is your firewall spying on you too?
- Additional 5.3 million pounds of ground beef recalled due to E. Coli contamination.
- First Indian finishing school opens, to groom geeky software engineers in workplace etiquette and social skills. More are expected to open soon, since 300,000 Indian ‘computer nerds’ will be hired this year, many of whom will travel the world to work with clients that have outsourced software programming jobs.
- Appeals court rules cops can stage collisions, steal cars and their contents, and lie to victims to conduct a warrantless search. Link now fixxored.
- Calling the federal Real ID Act ‘repugnant’ to the state and federal constitutions, New Hampshire lawmakers vote to reject the Real ID Act. Legislation or resolutions opposing Real ID have been introduced in at least 26 states.
- US federal appeals court orders the Pentagon to release a man being held within the US as an ‘enemy combatant’.
Quote of the Day:
To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution — and the country. …We refuse to recognize a claim to power that would so alter the constitutional foundations of our Republic.
Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, writing in the ruling of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va. in the case of Ali al-Marri.
