Bird flu found in US turkey flock

Ask the Bush administration why the human food chain is at risk after he lowered FDA standards his first year in office.  - The Angryindian----------------------------------------------"Earth Frenzy Radio: Bird flu found in US turkey flock: "A flock of 54,000 turkeys...

China Makes It Snow

Weather control, usually the domain of James Bond villains*, has taken a big step forward as China claims success in triggering snowfall from clouds seeded with silver iodide."China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly...

The real climate change catastrophe

"Over 2 billion of the Earth’s citizens – including 95% of Africans – still do not have electricity. That means no lights, refrigerators, stoves, radios, televisions or computers; no modern homes, hospitals, schools, offices or factories. Instead, people breathe...

Death Needs A Mop

"In his top-of-the-heap book, Markus Zusak gives all you would expect in a novel about wartime Germany. But his trick is to make Death his narrator, writes Marianne Brace HOW do you write a fresh story about the Holocaust? Australian novelist Markus Zusak has cracked it with...

Male Sweat Boosts Women's Hormone Levels

I see this Berkley study as evidence that the Dutch may be on to something..."Science Daily — Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, according to a new study by University of...

Hobbit Controversy

"The scientific controversy around Our Lady of Flores, (Lady of Flowers), aka the hobbit, continues... The hobbit is definitely a new species of human, related to but separate from Homo sapiens, concludes a study by a Florida State University team published yesterday in...

Bionic cat eyes may help restore sight in people

Gingersnap, a 4-year-old Abyssinian, rolled lazily on the examining table while Dr. Kristina Narfstrom rubbed the cat's cinnamon-colored head. Then, using a special viewer, Narfstrom peered deep into Gingersnap's eyes to measure the 4-year-old cat's losing battle with a...

Prediction

"In his 2003 book, "Our Final Hour," Martin Rees writes: "I think the odds are no better than fifty-fifty that our present civilisation on Earth will survive to the end of the present century." "What is your position? (h/t "freakonomics")