- What’s in the deep future of humanity?
- Diagram puts into perspective the cost of SETI. Though perhaps might be instructive to keep going on the lower scale – e.g. how many Third World lives could be saved?
- Paul Allen says his funding for SETI is “the longest of long shots“.
- Alien super-civilisations could live off black holes.
- Further evidence that dark matter varies with the seasons. Look out scientists, you might be on a slippery slope down to astrology…
- Global consciousness spike during William and Kate’s balcony kiss?
- Yeti hand replica to be returned to Nepal monastery. Just to be clear, “Yeti hand replica” is not Loren Coleman’s Captain Beefheart tribute band.
- Is mythology dangerous?
- 25 abandoned Yugoslavian monuments that look like they’re from the future.
- Taming the Ketamine tiger.
- Sea urchins are basically a big spiky eye.
- The scale of our Solar System.
- More stolen artefacts from the Cairo Museum have been been recovered.
- How space technology helped nail Osama.
- And how DNA tests would be used to ID a dead Osama.
- In the end, who won?
- Image of the day: sunrise through sacred stones.
Quote of the Day:
Bin Laden is irrelevant. There are always men like him and always will be. How a society reacts to them is the important thing. We failed.
