Blinding ignorance does mislead us. Oh wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Cross riddle at Shugborough leads to new Grail quest.
- Inca stone with 41 angles discovered in Peru.
- Ancient elite island found in Mexico.
- Neandertals were sophisticated and fearless hunters.
- As Ronald Hutton’s Blood and Mistletoe (Amazon US & UK) makes clear, we like the idea of the Druids so much that we’ve made up almost everything we know about them.
- Possible new dinosaur species found in Alberta. More details.
- Andes mountains are older than previously believed.
- Why space repairs aren’t easy.
- Earth’s biodiversity linked to the Milky Way.
- As Alaska’s glaciers melt, the land is rising, causing the sea – and water tables – to retreat.
- Plucked from clouds and quickly analyzed in flight, ice crystals found to contain bits of biological material — bacteria, spores and plants.
- Human exploitation of the seas has changed them forever.
- IEA says power-hungry gadgets are killing the planet: Electronic consumer goods could demand up to 1,700 Terawatt hours of electricity by 2030.
- World’s fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops.
- ‘Kryptos’ and Dan Brown: Inside the CIA’s devilishly difficult cypher.
- George Knapp’s I-Team chases UFOs on the river.
- DARPA aims for soldier telepathy.
- DARPA also in useful, easily-achievable project shocker: System likely to actually work, so sackings expected.
- The National Autistic Society is petitioning PM Gordon Brown to protect Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon and other people afflicted with autism from being extradited.
- More about Asperger’s syndrome, a comparatively mild autism spectrum disorder characterized by egocentricity and impairments in communication and socialization.
- Peter Jackson discusses his first big budget science-fiction movie, District 9.
Big thanks to Greg and Percival.
Quote of the Day:
Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
