Sometimes, your imagination just fails you.
- The Moai are dying. Easter Island’s enigmatic monuments will erode away soon unless steps are taken to preserve them.
- Plan for road tunnel under Stonehenge is scrapped.
- Aliens Apart: Seth Shostak says the Galactic Federation is a fiction.
- Saturn’s ‘Flying Saucer Moons‘ are made of ring material (no, not gold).
- Should Intelligent Design proponents be denied tenure at Universities?
- Discover’s Scientist of the Year is….(drumroll please)….David Charbonneau, Harvard University astronomer and alien hunter extraordinaire.
- Welcome to the future: are you ready to websurf your own DNA?
- Scientists can now tell what you’re looking at, just by watching your neurons.
- Dark Energy: The Movie.
- How America lost the war on drugs.
- The 6 most important experiments in the world.
- Doctors baffled by case of green sweat.
- Why it is our duty to fight aging to the death.
- Searching for Bigfoot? Scream it from the top of a mountain.
- Zombie roaches lose their free will due to wasp venom. Kind of like TV and people, except without the wasp larvae eating their way out of your stomach while you’re still alive.
- Link fixed: Ancient kangaroo didn’t hop – instead it galloped on all fours, had dog-like fangs, and may have climbed trees. I think they’ve got it confused with a drop bear…
- New link: Are we evolving faster than we used to? Not from the evidence I’ve seen in the local shopping mall.
- Flatland: the movie(s) – jumping off a page near you.
- Ancient flood brought Gulf Stream to a halt, triggering biggest climate change event in the last 10,000 years.
- Lost pre-Inca treasure found in Spanish lock-up. National Geographic has a video report.
- NG also has a video report on some mystery Columbian mummies.
- Also: Haul of ancient Roman artefacts found in London well stuns experts.
- Electric eel used to power Xmas lights.
- But wait – cancel Christmas! Microsoft shuts down Santa after he talks about oral sex with minors.
Thanks Baldrick and Kat.
Quote of the Day:
Tinsel is really snakes’ mirrors.
Stephen Wright