- Front Page
- Old Things
- It’s All In The Head
- Extras
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Full list of 32 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- No word on whether this is “WOW!”-worthy or not..: Discovery – Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected
- That likely doesn’t make us any luckier..: New Scientist – Solar system has a tail shaped like a four-leaf clover
- Surprisingly, NO ONE ELSE is talking about this. Could it be because it never happened?: The Internet Chronicle – Venezuelan Asylum Achieved, Snowden reveals UFO Documents
- Red Rover, Red Rover, Look Under That Boulder..: New Scientist – NASA urged to seek live Martians with 2020 rover
- Move beyond loss and into opportunity, and creativity, and fun.: Orange – Amputee builds prosthetic leg from Lego
- Sometimes, it’s the little things that are heroic..: Metro – Caped crusader Parallel Parking Man ‘helps’ women to park
- Hopefully he’s more successful in cryptozoology than he was in.. what was that? Marketing?: Scottish Express – Charlie Sheen: I raised hell… and now I’ll raise Nessie
- Old Things:
- Garfield started that year. ‘Nuf said.: New Scientist – The wonder year: Why 1978 was the best year ever
- The height of fashion, just before the 80’s?: New Scientist – 1978 in pictures: Why it was the best year so far
- Much like an elephant graveyard, this cave seemed like a good place to die.: The Siberian Times – Necropolis of ancient creatures including a two-horned Merck’s rhinoceros is found in the Urals
- You probably don’t need to be high to make (or understand!) these cave paintings.. but it might not hurt!: Alternet – Were Paleolithic Cave Painters High on Psychedelic Drugs? Scientists Propose Ingenious Theory for Why They Might Have Been
- Just what did the first writers write about? And would it have been called “blocking” rather than “blogging” in those days?: Yahoo!/AP – China discovers primitive, 5,000-year-old writing
- Grave robbing, expanse of empire, or gifts?: The Daily Mail – Archaeologists baffled after ancient Egyptian sphinx discovered in northern Israel
- A flashback to a more superstitious time?: The UK Telegraph – Polish archaeologists unearth ‘vampire grave’
- … and a flashback to a much less superstitious person, apparently!: Metro – 181-year-old corpse of Jeremy Bentham attends UCL board meeting
- It’s All In The Head:
- (EXTRA) Of course, maybe they just store those memories elsewhere..: Smithsonian – These Decapitated Worms Regrow Old Memories Along with New Heads
- (EXTRA) Surprisingly, there are worries about supplying *enough* bugs..: New Scientist – Eating insects: Disgust is just the first hurdle
- (EXTRA) It may depend on how the insects are cooked..: Discover/Seriously, Science – Eating in a cafeteria makes food taste worse.
- (EXTRA) Not everyone who experiences symptoms actually has an illness. That’s just how messed up human beings are.: New Scientist – What if your gluten intolerance is all in your head?
- (EXTRA) People wanna move, and they wanna move for their own reasons.: Metro – Top 10: Weirdest reasons for visa applications around the world
- (EXTRA) Is there a Luddite with a mission, or just some people too eager to make law?: The Huffington Post – Florida Accidentally Banned All Computers, Smart Phones In The State Through Internet Cafe Ban: Lawsuit
- (EXTRA) It may be all in the “head”.: Metro – Hotel spa offers new bathtub filled with beer treatment
- (EXTRA) The stereotypes of the elderly are forever broken.: New Scientist – People in their 90s are getting smarter
- Oh, *sure* they do. *Right*. I *totally* agree with this. *Yeah*..: BBC – Authorities ‘use analytics tool that recognises sarcasm’
- (EXTRA) Considering there is always a delay, just how does everyone else *not* experience a disconnect?: New Scientist – Mindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak
- (EXTRA) I want this person’s entire life to be tracked, to see what they become. (Fortunately (?), Facebook will likely do that.): Orange – Girl genius, 5, finds new talent
- Something I’ve been saying for quite a while..: disinformation – Phil Plait to Attendees of The Amazing Meeting 8: Don’t Be A Dick
- How far do *you* think it is?: Metro – Home And Away: Britons believe Australia is farther away than the Moon
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) So far, the parrot has only suggested rude things that aren’t likely addresses — although with Scotland, that’s not a certainty.: Orange – Search for sweary parrot’s owner
- (EXTRA) Practice to steal your neighbour’s wive?: Orange – Brits third in World Wife Carrying Championships
- (EXTRA) An amazing achievement, just to show that you can go slightly more than no where with lots of effort.: Metro – Video: Pedal-powered helicopter flies into history books
- (EXTRA) Great! Just as I start to almost get used to possibly learning how to play the old notes, they make new notes!: New Scientist – Sensitive piano keys let pianists create new sounds
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