Discovery Channel:
Fetus’ feet show fish, reptile vestiges. Hardly an ‘intelligent design’.
CNN:
Peru’s ancient Xena?
NY Times Science:
On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch. Quatrefoil, fertility? It looks like something on the other end of the perineum to me, not exactly fertile. There must be other indications I’m not privy to (excuse the pun).
NY Times Fitness:
Lactic acid isn’t bad! It’s fuel! “The scientists were stuck in 1920.”
New Scientist:
Black holes, or dark energy stars?
Times Online.UK:
Cleopatra’s gems rise from the deep.
CSM:
Plumbing the mysteries of clouds. “For example, we can’t tell you how much water in the atmosphere is in the form of ice ... [snip] ... We can’t even tell you what fraction of clouds that cover our skies produce rain or snow.”
NY Times Europe:
Migrating Birds Didn’t Carry Flu. “All we have are a few snapshots of the virus. What we need is a movie of its life cycle.”
The Economist:
How London has changed in the past 108 years—and how it hasn’t. “But where vertical social housing replaced slums, poverty has been fossilised. So has some of the viciousness that Booth found.”
SF New Mexican/Rocky Mtn News/AP:
Ancient Puebloans reburied at Mesa Verde in ‘wrong righted’.
Scotsman.com:
Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer. “And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.”
London Review of Books:
Reviews of two books on autism.
Related: US survey shows autism very common.
CNN:
Archaeologists discover Maya tomb. Let’s hope they find more codices.
LiveScience:
Evolution happens faster at the equator. “The researchers found that tropical plants had more than twice the rate of base substitution compared to their temperate cousins.”
Discovery Channel:
Norway’s First Dinosaur Found. “... the sea region consisted of dry plains crossed by large rivers during the dinosaur era.” That’s been a very long while ago, methinks.
ArtNews Online:
Descendant of the Pharaohs. Zahi Hawass has a great love, for Egypt. It knows no bounds.
Guardian.UK:
Archaeologists and amateurs agree pact. The lowly metal detector is both benefit and bane.
NY Times Space:
Black Holes Collide, and Gravity Quivers. “Imagine a rubber sheet pulled taut horizontally and then tossing a bowling ball and a tennis ball onto it. The heavier bowling ball sinks deeper, and the tennis ball will move toward the bowling ball not because of a direct attraction between the two, but because the tennis ball rolls into the depression around the bowling ball.” One might say the reality of the AIDS bowling ball is affecting the tennis ball of the Catholic Church ...
Washington Post:
Face Masks Analyzed As Aid in Flu Pandemic. How to re-use N95 masks, too.
NY Times Business:
Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun. Some of us have been holding our breaths since the 70’s for affordable solar power; now 30 years later, we might actually see it.
Guardian.UK:
“Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.”
- V (for Vendetta).
Times Online.UK:
Oh, no! That’s the bit of your brain announcing a cockup.
andabien.com:
Evolutionary timeline. Scroll right.
Guardian.UK:
Royal Society attacks teaching of creationism as science.
