News Briefs 20-10-2017

“Why should things be easy to understand?”

• What’s more deadly than wars, disaster and hunger? Pollution.
• A twisted Martian tail.
• Will lava tubes house the first lunar colony?
• When sabre-toothed cats walked alongside man?
• Mud volcano still erupting nearly 12 years later.
• Ancient 9.7 million yr. old teeth rewrite history.
• NASA study refines search for habitable worlds.
• Special edition of Farenheit 451 turns up the heat.
• Sunken pyramids in the Atlantic?
• When continents collide…
• Geek out on hand-painted maps of fantasy and sci-fi worlds.
• This week’s evidence of the looming robot uprising… Shall we play a game?

Quote of the Day:

“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”

T. Pynchon