It’s not like the glass is half empty; actually, it’s half broken. And filled with… um… you get the picture.
- Playing the banjo… during brain surgery (with video). This act could be big in Vegas!
- You know, for supposedly-advanced superior beings, our alien overlords have really poor Geography skills!
- …Or maybe the aliens are Democrats!
- NASA to attempt remote repair of Hubble telescope. Does this mean they plan to turn Ingo Swann into an astronaut?
- Mapping the Universe: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s 3-D guide to the final frontier.
- Get ready to be beamed up! First ‘Star Trek’ pics released —They kept the mini-skirts, so I’m not complaining 😛
- New doll in the market seeks to dethrone Chucky.
- Beware of the mutant fish with a taste for human flesh!
- The science of shrinking human heads. Now THAT would make an original key chain 😉
- Tests explore whether robots can think. Because it would be nice to have at least ONE sentient species on this planet.
- Megaliths in a Russian lake evidence of lost civilization?
- So this NY Times columnist says Nobel Prize committee.
- With the world falling apart, who you gonna call? Superman? Batman? Pfft, Puh-leaaase! How about Gordon Gekko and his mighty suspenders?
- & Speaking of Wall Street, let’s talk about *other* kinds of human waste 😉
- It may be time to put that 70’s myth of a ‘Coming Ice Age’ to rest once and for all.
- Combine deep-sea critters + volcanic ash + a gazillion years, and what do you have? Virtual fossils.
- With the beatification of Pius XII full underway, a courageous rabbi speaks before a synod of bishops at the Vatican. You could almost cut the tension with a meser.
- Don’t be naïve & stop buying Evian.
- Chinese scientists map the Panda genome. I wonder which base pairs determine its cuteness 🙂
- King Tut is the son of Akhenaton. That’s what Zahi says and that should be enough for you, little brains.
- Spain has returned some 243 priceless artefacts to Peru. Are you paying attention, Austria??
- ‘The Mexican Dream’, by JMG Le Clèzio, new Nobel Prize recipient (Amazon US & UK). For a free preview —courtesy of Google Books— click here.
- Germans love light. And beer too, right Earthling? 😉
A gazillion thanks to Rick, Greg & Kat
Quote of the Day:
“Greed is good”
