Back in black baby! Help us keep rollin’ in 2012 by chipping in a few dollars – hell, if people can give James Randi a few hundred thousand a year, surely we can at least make a tin cup rattle just a bit…
- Xenoarchaeology rising.
- Scientists suggest looking for alien footprints on the Moon.
- Loren Coleman lists the top ten cryptozoology stories from 2011.
- Infamous ‘Yeti finger’ flunks DNA test.
- “We know we can get you in and out of this safely, but we still can’t quite tell you how it works.” The mystery behind anaesthesia.
- Skeptics start waking up to the James Randi problem.
- Uplift: Kanzi the Bonobo makes fire, cooks hamburgers.
- While Tarzan’s trusty sidekick Cheetah has died aged 80.
- Hugo Chavez suggests United States is secretly striking down world leaders with cancer.
- Hackers plan to launch their own space satellites in order to combat censorship.
- Another UFO explanation? Secret Cold War satellites dropped film in re-entry vehicles which was retrieved while falling by U.S. forces.
- Did Earth once have two moons?
- 9-foot-tall super-soldier mourns Kim Jong Il?
- Exploding black hole observed, emitting more energy in a second than our Sun does in a billion years.
- Why don’t we hallucinate all the time? (Note: that is not me making a suggestion).
- New sci-fi brothel offers sex with girls dressed up as aliens.
- Sci-fi stars we lost in 2011.
- In Samoan history, Friday the 30th of December does not exist.
- The tale of 2011, as told in pictures from space.
- Is the world really becoming more peaceful?
- Blackbirds fall from the sky again over ‘damned’ Arkansas town.
- Mystery foam engulfs British seaside town.
- Hoard of Jewish scrolls discovered in a cave in Afghanistan has scholarly world abuzz.
- Video of the day: Comet Lovejoy makes a Christmas cameo in the skies of the southern hemisphere.
Thanks RPJ.
Quote of the Day:
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms – up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested – probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.
So we are all reincarnations – though short-lived ones. When we we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere – as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew.
Bill Bryson
