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News Briefs 20-11-2008

In this world a man who is a criminal to some, can be a hero to others.

  • 3rd Reich, but only 1 ball: Rumours about Adolf’s little secret are confirmed.
  • Judge a tyrant by the size of his tomb: New findings at King Herod’s mausoleum. And click here for a Nat Geo video clip.
  • Harvard will return 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico. A century of delay is better than never.
  • And things are looking good for the Italians in that loot-returning department, too.
  • What’s stranger than Dark Matter? To answer that, you need to go to Antarctica… and don’t forget the big balloon —no, not *that* kind of balloon.
  • Star Trek: DSI… as in Deep Space Internet.
  • NASA looses spider on the ISS. Boy, it’s almost like the pitch for a sci-fi horror movie!
  • Guillermo del Toro, the Aztec god of Cinema —and discoverer of the 30-hour-day— will produce a darker version of ‘Pinocchio’.
  • Mr. Molina goes to Washington: Mexican Nobel laureate is hired by Obama to work on climate change.
  • Cold fusion researchers write a letter stating their case to President-Elect Obama. And if that doesn’t work, there’s always Santa Claus.
  • Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol is bad for your karma; and not just for the damage o the Amazon.
  • Is global warming forcing Bigfoot to move north, or will the big guy stay put, now that Palin’s back in her turf?
  • Pleistocene Park, here we come! Scientists have sequenced the genome of the extinct woolly mammoth.
  • The windpipe: a small part for a man, a giant leap for modern medicine.
  • The £350,000 Iron Age neckband discovered by one man and his metal detector, that has our Rick green with Viking envy.
  • Happy Birthday, Anthropology. So what kind of cake would you like?
  • The perfect gift for Claude Lévi-Strauss, the great French anthropologist, on his 100th birthday: a nice pair of jeans! 😉
  • Korean Soldiers Get New Halo-y Armor. But how de we know it’s really Covenant-proof?
  • If you’re the UN, how do you spend 25 million dollars: On medicines for South America, or Food for Africa? Wait, I have an even better idea…
  • Prophesy of economic collapse ‘coming true’. No sh*t!!

Thanks Greg, Rick & Kat (Get well!)

Quote of the Day:

It’s better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!

Emiliano Zapata (who was killed mounted on his horse)

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