Awright! Awright! I’m barbecuing already! If you’re willing to provide good company or good beer, you’re invited. If both, I’ll pick you up at the airport in my redneck limo.
- Financial stress causes loss of 13 IQ points. Longer version. Broader version. And…
- Smithsonian version: When you don’t have enough money, it’s hard to think about anything else.
- TEPCO just used plastic tape to ‘fix’ a pipe that has been leaking highly radioactive water.
- Fukushima radiation levels are ’18 times higher’ than thought. Japan vows quick action. I thought they vowed ‘quick action’ more than two years ago.
- Hard-Wired for Giving: Contrary to conventional wisdom that humans are essentially selfish, scientists are finding that the brain is built for generosity.
- Humans would be better off if they monkeyed around like the muriquis.
- Ice-age giants like the woolly rhino may originally have been Tibetan.
- Ancient trash heaps in Bolivia used for millennia now suggest humans explored the western Amazon as early as 10,000 years ago.
- An Iron Age tunic is among the discoveries found under melting snow on Norwegian mountains.
- 19th-century text used to train samurai warriors deciphered.
- Head injuries clearly linked to [permanent] brain damage.
- Got CRS disease? There may be hope for you.
- Your cell phone is blabbing your location to anyone who wants to listen. You might begin to care when your car insurance company says your cell-location data suggests you regularly speed, or when your employer says your cell phone was hanging out in a bar the whole day you called in sick.
- Supervolcanos’ ash was so hot it turned back into lava miles from eruption.
- Snarks and Boojums.
- The creature — appeared in Jamaica. Not convincing, but more fun than any Bigfoot story I’ve seen in months.
Quote of the Day:
Suddenly I heard a noise as of thunder, which I thought to be that of a wave of the sea. The trees shook, and the earth was moved. I uncovered my face, and I saw that a serpent drew near…[]…his body was as overlaid with gold, and his colour as that of true lazuli….[]… it was the prince of the land of Punt…
The Shipwrecked Sailor, 2200 B.C.
