- Front Page
- It’s All In Your Head
- Yeti Spaghetti
- Extras
CQ: One of the problems with most films that depict the future is that they feel unrealistic: either not enough has changed, or too much. Discuss how your favourite time travel film deals with this, and what makes it successful or unsuccessful.
Full list of 34 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Sorry! I’ll try to stop snoring..: Orange – Mystery noise keeping residents awake
- Big or small, we all pee the same..: New Scientist – Universal law of urination found in mammals
- Little brainwashed double-agents..: New Scientist – Reprogrammed bacterium speaks new language of life
- With this level of detail, I expect a VR version of our world — in full scale — to be available next year. (Wikiplanetary?): New Scientist – Matterhorn mapped by fleet of drones in just 6 hours
- All history is fabricated; only the present seems reasonably true..: The UK Daily Mail – American Bible scholar claims ancient ‘confessions’ prove story of Jesus Christ was entirely fabricated by Roman aristocrats
- The more we learn about the past, the more we know the past is entirely false.: The Independant – Zut alors! Archaeologists uncover ‘Heston Blumenthal-style’ feast at 8,000-year-old dig site that proves Brits were the first to eat frogs’ legs – not the French
- In the days before the Internet, chickens crossed roads a lot..: Metro – How did the chicken cross the road? — It wore a high-vis jacket
- I don’t know if he’d survive an Iron Man sweater challenge, however.: Metro – Man runs marathon, knits scarf and breaks world record at same time
- Don’t you have to die to get that? … DON’T DIE, GRUMPYCAT! :’/: Orange – Grumpy Cat wins lifetime award
- Grumpy no more!: Metro – Never drink alone again with wine for cats
- It’s All In Your Head:
- The problem of asking people their opinion is not asking them for the same opinions..: Hayley is a Ghost – Belief in Ghosts is rising: Looking beyond the headline claims
- This explains why I have such a dirty, dirty mind..: New Scientist – Sleep boosts brain’s self-cleaning system
- Is information the fundamental unit of change?: The Daily Galaxy – “Transition from Inorganic to Organic Life was Based on Information, Not Chemistry”
- No, wait.. maybe information is the fundamental unit of mass?: The Nightshirt blog – The No?mass Hypothesis: Is Dark Matter Made of Knowledge?
- Let’s take a page from mathematics, and just assume an impossibility (temporarily) to make the rest work out..: New Scientist – Neuroscience wrongs will make a right
- (EXTRA) I would have thought that by now, complex things like intelligence can never be “just X” or “just Y”, but are always a combination of things, interacting in complex ways..: New Scientist – School achievement isn’t just in your genes
- Are there fundamentally unknowable things, like the mind? (Does that mean that one day, the rest might be known?): Aeon Magazine – The mental block
- (EXTRA) This year, the fear will find you.: Metro – Fright mobs: Why nowhere is safe this Halloween
- (EXTRA) Um.. Success!?: Orange – Halloween House ‘Too Spooky’ For Children
- (EXTRA) Some people really like their dessert..: Orange – Diner attacks restaurant with chainsaw
- Yeti Spaghetti:
- (EXTRA) Not sure if this means they inherit all his stuff, or not..: Discovery News – Living Relatives of Iceman Mummy Found
- (EXTRA) The sea is one of those last frontiers where scary, gigantic monsters can still hide. #allhailcthulhu: Statesman Journal – 18-foot-long sea creature found off California coast
- (EXTRA) Well, that and the actual creatures.: Unknown Country – Chupacabras: the mystery is why there is a mystery at all…
- (EXTRA) All (sensationalist) reporters fail at basic Venn diagrams, but not all sensationalist headlines are created by reporters.: The UK Mirror – VIDEO: Has Yeti mystery finally been solved? Bigfoot could be cross between ancient polar bear and brown bear
- (EXTRA) Are cryptozoologists forced to announce their findings to the press (instead of colleagues) because they don’t have a forum, or is it just bad science?: New Scientist – Beware of the yeti, and spurious science too
- (EXTRA) Is the fact that an entirely new (sub)species of bear might have been found crowded out by the “yeti” talk?: Cryptozoonews – Yetis, Polar Bears, Snowmen, Snow Bears, Dzu-Tehs, and Jumping To Abominable Conclusions
- (EXTRA) … and then there are distractions like this..: Time – Naked Man Claiming to Be a Descendent of Sasquatch Attacks Hunter
- (EXTRA) The only Yeti evidence to come out lately that I’m taking credibly..: The UK Mirror – Watch Yetis on the rampage in four clips from The Web of Fear, one of the missing Doctor Who episodes recovered in Nigeria
- (EXTRA) The world finally catches up with Jurassic Park..: The UK Daily Mail – The 46-million-year-old meal: Scientists discover mosquito fossil so well-preserved that it still has blood in its stomach
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Something about this seems like an incredibly bad idea.. As if people weren’t afraid of bedbugs to begin with!: New Scientist – Cosy quilts made of killer superbugs
- (EXTRA) It rather puts into perspective how much money we waste on everyday little things, and how much it’s great when you can see a bigger picture..: Orange – Teenage Saturday girl buys shop
- (EXTRA) With mouth-to-beak resuscitation, no less.: Orange – Blind chicken brought back to life
- (EXTRA) If he is legally dead, does that mean he can stop paying taxes and cannot be arrested?: Sky News – Ohio Man Still Legally Dead Despite Reappearing
- (EXTRA) In a world which is supposedly more and more cash-strapped, can it mean there is some confidence in finding something to start up a new department?: Inexplicata – Per?: Peruvian Air Force Launches Anomalous Aerial Phenomenon Research Department
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