Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife Tonita!
- Alan Boyle offers a first look at SpaceShipTwo. Mmm, eye candy.
- The truth is out there…and it’s a bit of a let-down. An article on the release of British MoD ‘UFO Files’, interviewing Dr David Clarke.
- Skeptic Ben Radford tells you “How UFOs and Bigfoot Could Save Earth“. I think his definition of “popular belief” is a little different to mine…
- Where’s a wormhole when you need one?
- Zombie rat muscle powers nanobot. Because headlines don’t get much better than that.
- Although….mutant space roaches gain super-roach abilities.
- Treating muscular dystrophy with stem cells.
- You can read about 2008’s biggest science stories – before they happen – at Popular Science.
- Does ball lightning really exist?
- Traces of vast cosmic strings found in the background radiation from the Big Bang.
- New study finds cell phone radiation triggers insomnia.
- New energy idea harvests the mechanical energy of falling raindrops. It’s interesting at the moment watching this topic, with researchers now starting to understand that we are surrounded by opportunites for “energy harvesting”.
- National Geographic video report: Nazi Plunder Sparks Legal War.
- Contrary to the popular view, the ancient Maya sacrificed boys, not virgin girls.
- New fossil study says the duck-billed platypus lived with the dinosaurs. Kind of makes you wonder about that ‘survival of the fittest’ thing doesn’t it…
- The Poe Toaster strikes again.
- Turin holy water theft blamed on Satanists. At the very least, we can probably rule out vampires.
- Electronic mufti may issue machine fatwas.
- Some of the most extraordinary coincidences ever recorded.
- And: the Top Ten craziest science stuff you didn’t know. Welp Mr City Slicker, I’ve known #1 since I was a wee tyke…
- And if you haven’t had enough already: Five strange stop-gap solutions to Global Warming.
Quote of the Day:
Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
Robert Anton Wilson
