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24-Aug-2005
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• Ah the glamour of archaeology, sifting through the mud at the bottom of the Hudson River.
• Across the Middle East, the quest for sacred artifacts and for the lessons they can teach us is taking on new urgency.
• Was Genghis Khan's pen mightier than his sword? That would be a hell of a pen.
• The 1400-tonne time bomb that lies at the bottom of the Thames could blow at any time.
• Stem cell discovery may help diabetics.
• US scientists genetically engineer mice with twice the endurance capability of normal mice. Say bye-bye to the Olympics folks.
• Researchers find that fruit flies have sex longer when their body clock is impaired. The world is in turmoil, and science is improving the sex life of fruit flies.
• We all might be capable of enjoying the pleasure of synesthesia. Shh, can you smell something?
• Electric shock treatment revives coral reef.
• God's fragrance descends upon Church two weeks after the prophetic proclamation "When you experience my fragrance, know that my glory is not far behind." Try that line out next time you break wind in an elevator.
• Better the devil you know in Rennes-le-Chateau.
• Pope condemns human cloning and arrogance of man. Not sure if he means one man in particular, or all of us in general.
• Canadian film company releases full-length documentary about Aztec UFO crash.
• Noah's Ark discovered?
• Lightning bolt kills 31 Danish cows.
• It's raining fish, hallelujah it's raining fish.
• Dowsing: is it science or mysticism?
• Randi rants about Roswell, Radin and reader queries. Damn, last week was alliteration week here at TDG, what a waste.
• Hot meteorite found in backyard. Alternatively, it could be a cooked mushroom or fresh dog droppings. No wonder the guy picked it up with a paper towel...
• Raelians hold public lecture to share their message, and insist they are not 'nuts'.
• For some strange reason, scientists are unconvinced by the Tunguska UFO story.
• Mars Odyssey mission gets a new lease on life.
• Asteroid shaves past the Earth in the nearest miss so far recorded.
• Exploded star detailed in new Chandra X-ray image.
• Scientists puzzled by remnants of 1994 Jupiter comet collision.
• In the loneliness of space, astronauts may one day count on the company of Robonaut. At least it doesn't have one of those funny round mouths.
• New Moon Rising (Amazon US and UK) details the behind the scenes recent history of NASA, from the Columbia explosion to the release of the Presidential Commission's report on "Moon, Mars and Beyond".
• Human hibernation being investigated by the European Space Agency (ESA).

• Remember the Kent County Court House ghost caught on security camera earlier this year? It's an insect according to the security company who studied the recordings, and they say it's happened before. Yeah, but have they considered it could be the ghost of an insect?
• Want to catch your own ghost? A ghostbusting kit will soon be mass-marketed. I always wanted to be Venkman.
• Richard Freeman's report of his expedition to Sumatra in search of the Orang-Pendek and other cryptozoological mysteries.
• Fancy learning more about Cryptozoology? Check out Ben Roesch's Online Cryptozoology Archives.
• Does a dinosaur named Mokele-Mbembe exist in the African Congo?
• The world may be getting smaller, but there's still plenty of wild territory for Extreme Expeditions.
• Bizarre creatures of Japan. No, not lolita-goths and cosplayers, but goblins and ape-men. Genki link!
• An excellent website detailing Archaeoastronomy in Japan. Of particular note is the star chart of Kitora Kofun.
• Cesare Berrini's theories of Tiahuanaco's Gateway of the Sun.
• Explorers find new districts of ancient city in Peruvian Andes. If similar expeditions could get decent funding, I'm sure more discoveries could be made in South America.
• Paul Stonehill, of the China Paranormal Research Center, presents an interestin article about Ancient China's mysterious Yellow Emperor, Huang-Ti.
• Gusev Crater on Mars may contain evidence of a watery past. The evidence is watery because Skeptics keep peeing on it.
• Are magnetic hills a hoax or the real deal?
• Greens call for action on Scotland's chaotic summer weather. Cernig wonders if it's safe to return. It is, but only when the soccer's not on.
• First Dr Wynn warns of massive tsunamis smashing America's east coast, now he says he was exaggerating and the volcanic collapse of the Canary Islands will only cause mini waves. Surfs up, Prez.
• Butterflies are disappearing, possibly due to climate change. Butterflies are symbolic of what, according to Jung? Post your answers and I'll think of a prize.
• Hopes for an International Linear Collider to be built are rising.
• The darkest body in the universe may be a moon that partners Sedna.
• A shortage of primates for lab experiments could slow medical breakthroughs. Uh ... any volunteers?
• The world is experiencing an increase in dust storms. Where's Iorek Byrnison when you need him?
• Munch's painting The Scream has been stolen. Give it back, Greg: administrating TDG isn't that stressful and it hardly looks like you anyway.
• A woman hanging out her washing becomes the first person in Britain to be hit by a meteorite. What surprises me is that other people in the world have been hit by meteorites! I wonder if she saw stars?
• Impact craters hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet are mapped.
• A strain of China's Avian flu is discovered in pigs.
• A US County Sheriff suspects "Al-Qaeda or teenagers" for a string of unsolved petty crimes.
• A feel-good cute animal story to end today's news, as Henry the new-born leatherback turtle swims out to sea.
• The first humans came to North America after the last Ice Age ended about 13,500 years ago, crossing a land bridge from Asia into what is now Alaska and spreading quickly across the continent. Then what's this.
• History tells us that the arrival of Columbus in the New World marked the beginning of the extinction of the native population of Cuba. But history is often in error.
• Everyone believes that a tunnel is the best way to reduce traffic and congestion around Stonehenge. Not.
• The cave art of Ice Age Britons is rather dull and uninspired when compared to their Paleolithic counterparts on continental Europe. Really?
• The Dead Sea Scrolls found a half-century ago in the caves above Qumran leave no doubt that the Essenes occupied that region in Biblical times. No.
• Some scholars maintain that King Solomon is a mythological figure, a kind of Jewish King Arthur.
• The first Olympic participants performed their competitions in the nude. Not intentionally.
• The dingo descends from ancient, wild wolf-like animals unique to Australia. DNA evidence says the Dingo's mamma was Chinese.
• Friday the 13th and the number thirteen are universally considered unlucky. Nope.
• The news coming from the rovers on Mars is so exciting that no printed publication would find it necessary to embellish the truth. Not quite.
• Alzheimer's disease has only been identified as a collection of brain cell abnormalities since 1906 making an ancient Chinese cure absolute nonsense. We shall see.
• President Bush has banned stem cell research. Not at all.
• First proposed in 1950, the idea of linguistic determinism has been discredited.
• There are no South American Piranhas in Dutch canals. Wanna bet?
• President Bush was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq and used 9/11 as an opportunity to do so. Not according to the 9-11 Commission Report. Read Chapter 10.3 'Phase Two' and the Question of Iraq (14 ppg.). BTW, if you read the whole report it refutes about 95% of Michael Moore's movie.
• The damp Rosslyn Chapel has deteriorated and has few visitors.
• No one would object if the U.S. military policy offered free breast implants to female soldiers.
• Europe is adamant about maintaining their status of remaining GM-crop free. Not everyone.
• The story of Noah's Ark is mythology, a local river flood at best. Okay, what's this?
• The concept of the automobile has matured and very little innovation is necessary. Scroll through the numbers and hold on tight.
• President Bush is saber-rattling, threatening Iran with invasion if the don't abandon their nuclear weapons projects. Not hardly. A diplomatic approach seems to be working well in Iran.
• Gravity is well understood and and perfectly explained by Newton's Laws of Motion and General Relativity. You left out the invisible hand and the pendulum.
• All scientists agree that soaring levels of the greenhouse gas cause Global Warming making the Kyoto Protocol our only hope. Uh oh, maybe Bush's mean ol' USA scientists were right.
• Humankind needs religion for moral guidelines.
• The earth is well-mapped and we know everything about it. There are no remains of an 'ancient civilization' yet to be discovered.
• All little boys grow up to be violent boyfriends and husbands, and that all little girls grow up to be docile wives and mothers who maintain family harmony at all costs.
• They sting, bite, spread disease, and annoy us. The world would be a better place if we could rid the planet of insects. Mankind has no use for bugs.
• These 'mystery animals' that keep popping-up are all known species. Are they? Okay, what's this one?
• Russian cosmonauts have never reported seeing UFOs while in space.
• The concept of a flying car is the stuff of science fiction and the Jetsons. It will never become reality. Don't bet on it.
• Virtual reality systems rely on a user navigating through a space using a joystick or some other controller, but lack the physical feeling of movement. Not anymore.
• Ghosts are associated with family castles, predominantly in Great Britain. Not always.
• Wondering whether extraterrestrials exist or not is just an entertainment, it really doesn't matter.
• Having no magnetic field and being so small, Mars never had an atmosphere or liquid surface water.
• There's very little to be gained by further exploration of our solar system. We know everything.

• Although they may be asked to die for their country, Wiccans in US service have difficulties with recognition of their beliefs. Meanwhile, a Pagan is being persecuted by townspeople who killed her pet and send her death threats.
• Whereas previous administrations commonly framed their anti-drug arguments in secular terms, Bush's drug war, at least rhetorically, resembles that of a religious crusade.
• The Bush Administration demand that any HIV-prevention education relies on abstinence. You only had until Monday to protest.
• It really is little wonder that 4,000 scientists say Bush's religious intolerance is interfering with scientific progress.
• However, since Kerry is just as concerned to woo the 40% of Americans who are "Born again", its uncertain that the possible futures are really all that different.
• The big question puzzling archaeologists who uncovered a near-perfect skeleton is: why would a corpse be buried in the middle of a busy Iron Age workshop?
• A shadowy and polygamous cult, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been accused of kidnapping one of it's own Bishops.
• The head of the lab who cloned Dolly the sheep has tragically been found hanged.
• A new species of flightless bird is found in the Philippines, and looks likely to join it's relatives on the endangered list right away.
• Leading media, scientific and government organistaions have received e-mail warnings of a huge comet predicted by Nostradamus which is supposed to hit Greece today. Hello, is there anyone left alive to read this?
• The pin-up pundit of the American right gives an interview to a flabbergasted British journalist. Sometimes it's difficult for us foreigners to understand how many Americans think.
• First it was the fridge mountain, then it was the tyre mountain. Now discarded computers have got environmentalists worried
• Decades ago, some hunters built a Bigfoot trap in the woods of Southern Oregon. It's still there, and has never caught a Bigfoot.
• A curator of a former Chinese Imperial palace has been put to death for stealing relics he was supposed to protect.
• The fossil of an ancient sea monster has been uncovered in Manitoba, Canada
• The Thylacine or Tasmanian Wolf may not be as extinct as it is thought to be.
• The Governor of New Mexico wants to reopen the investigation into the supposed and famous flying saucer crash at Roswell.
• Chill out, man! Scientists have found the switch in the brain that appears to control anxiety. Thinks: I wonder if governments have plans for a new water additive?
• Europe is warming up more quickly than the rest of the world, and cold winters could disappear almost entirely by 2080 as a result of global warming. Scots ask what the downside is...
• A woman may enter the record books as the first Briton to be struck by a meteorite.
• Austrain scientists have successfully teleported information 600 metres, a new record which brings quantum computing a bit nearer.
• Current theories of gravitation fail to explain the behaviour of some objects, including the Pioneer spacecraft.
• "There is a substantial chance that the result of the 2004 U.S. presidential election will be suspect...there will be sufficient uncertainty about the honesty of the vote count that much of the world and many Americans will have serious doubts." New York Times columnist reprts.
• Religious leaders in Austin, Texas were asked "How would Jesus vote?"
• World miltary spending is set to increase above 1 Trillion dollars for the first time, mostly due to huge U.S. weapons and weapons development spending. This doesnt include the $5 billion per month war spending on Iraq by the U.S. That's $17 dollars per U.S. man woman or child every month!
• Australian farmers are bracing for an expected plague of up to 100 billion locusts.
• A report on the recent Transhumanist Conference bemoans low attendance while still being upbeat about the movement's progress.
• Both Mars robotic explorers have found further evidence that water has flowed at some time on the red planet.
• Christian fundementalist archeologists still believe that Qumran was a religious community, despite evidence to the contrary.
• The African "miracle babies" reported by Greg come under further scrutiny as the evangelist behind the scam calls the Church of England a "tool of Satan" and the Archbishop of Monmouth "a devil worshipper". Amusing though the thought is, I doubt it.
• More details on the previously reported particle physicists who hope to learn the secrets of Mexico's pyramids. Who needs a robot?
• An ancient Chinese herbal cure for malaria is the basis for a new drug which may be the best weapon yet against the disease.
• The confusing world(s) of American morality and censorship. Was the furore over Janet Jackson's nipple diliberatley stirred up to distract from more weighty matters in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay?
• Scientists may have demonstrated that homeopathy works, and James Randi may soon be $1 million out of pocket.

• Cassini finds new Saturn moons.
• Stars reveal the Milky Way's age.
• Seoul ticks off Beijing for distorting history.
• Tibetan medicine packed with unusual pharmaceutical properties.
• Cosmic ray link to global warming boosted.
• Ice yields ancient plant matter.
• Hurricane Charley's sharp turn baffles scientists.
• Churchill and Hitler: Titans of World War 2.
• The forgotten black confederate soldier.
• Greenstock: If Iraq in 2006 looks very little better than under Saddam, then the whole thing was a waste of lives, money and effort.
• 100,000 Radiations - A Review.
• The devil in their diet.
• Prions act as stepping stones in evolution.
• Ganymede has a lumpy interior.
• A flash flood in the pan or a rainstorm caused by global warming?
• Taking the pulse of planet Earth.
• Nanotubes may have no temperature.
• Scientists to investigate genetic history of Britons.
• Maligned and ridiculed, cold fusion gains respect as a cheap way to produce nuclear weapons.
• Is Mercury an incredible shrinking planet?
• Low-carb diets get thermodynamic defence.
• On the electromagnetic basis for gravity.
• Walden's ripple effect.
• Could Australia's deadly snakes put the bite on cancer. Perhaps they could even provide for a test of another viewpoint?
• Cornish sun pillar.
• Earth in 2050: Expect 9 billion humans.
• Explorers find ancient city in Peru jungle.
• Venus: an inhabited world?
• Sankapala Viharaya's archaeological importance.
• Marijuana extract fights brain cancer.

Quote of the Day: Better late than never.  - Anon

• Ireland gets the badge of latest Atlantis candidate.
• Goth settlement found in the Ukraine. Wonder how they identified it, perhaps there were Bauhaus CDs lying around...
• British archaeologist to reveal location of John the Baptist's cave. Probably identified that site by the distinct lack of hats.
• Ancient Roman fish pens show that the majority of sea level rises in the past 2,000 year have happened in the last century.
• Unlocking the Mayan mystery.
• Ancient Persian fleet surrenders its mysteries.
• Scientists may have found a way of stopping killer viruses like AIDS.
• Bacteria play key longevity role.
• The big debate over tiny machines. The nano-tech naysayers are up against it.
• Governor of New Mexico calls for Roswell investigation to be reopened. "Clearly, it would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows." Clearly it would help tourism in the state of New Mexico too, but let's not be cynical...
• Documentary about Loch Ness monster gets rave reviews, labelled Scotland's Blair Witch Project.
• British man comes face to face with a puma. Let's hope he had the brown underwear on.
• Faithful flock to see religious relics. That's not so much a headline as a rule of thumb.
• How modern pagans are reviving the ancient polytheistic religions.
• Swedish monster hunter Jan-Ove Sundberg believes he may have captured Selma, Norway's legendary serpent monster in Lake Seljord, on film.
• Ghostbusters harbour doubts over Plymouth's naval dockyard. Pun not intended.
• Nairobi's miracle babies shown to media.
• The race for the X-prize is hotting up, with another contender completing a successful test run.
• David Grinspoon chats to Astrobiology Magazine about Venus, the hothouse planet. See our review of Grinspoon's excellent Lonely Planets (available from Amazon US and UK)
• Spielberg and Cruise to do Welles' (and Wells'?)War of the Worlds. It's alliteration week here at TDG.
• Don't worry about the mercury rising, because Mercury's shrinking.
• Japanese combat robots wow the crowds and aid development at the same time, with video. Not to sure about training those young robots such violent tactics though, haven't these people seen I, Robot?
• Will Zahi Hawass shaft us again? I'm beginning to think that if they do discover something behind the shaft doors, it's going to be a gold-framed portrait of Zahi Hawass.
• The remains of Iron Age woman with rings on her toes. Iron Age man with piercings yet to be found.
• Discovery of a 6000-year-old Pharaoh's tomb. Warning: Hawass again.
• A great article on Cahokia, the Mississippi mound mystery.
• A plethora of problems plagues Parthenon. Twist your tongue around that.
• Carved wooden figure linked to Seahenge, whose wooden posts may have been decorated with carvings similar to native American totem poles.
• Ramses II keeps getting bigger and bigger. He must have had a small obelisk. Oh bloody hell, Hawass is quoted again.
• A 17th-century prison used during the Inquisition will be opened as a museum. Damn, I was hoping they'd use it for its original purpose and keep politicians and terrorists there.
• The Divine Winds that saved Japan twice in the 13th century. No flatulence jokes for this link, TDG is a mature civilised site. For flatulence, see the other links with Zahi Hawass quotes.
• Indian students use Ancient Vedic maths for problem solving. Good thing they don't use Ancient Chinese mathematics (a prize for anyone who gets this joke!).
• A Crop Circle in Wiltshire displays Mayan 2012 doomsday calendar.
• Geoff Stray reckons he has cracked the code of Crop Circles.
• Experts found a piece of the Tunguska UFO. I hope it's the black box!
• Atlantis in the North Sea? I don't remember this one, but Jameske might.
• Russian monkeys play computer games. We also compile news reports for TDG. More bananas, Greg!
• Despite being electrocuted, rats addicted to cocaine continue taking it.
• Dolphin leaders keep pod together. Good to know one species of the animal kingdom isn't smoking crack and playing computer games!
• Ohmigods, giant mutant space ants are taking over Melbourne. Oh, they're from Argentina. And they're peaceful. I feel better now.
• Bottled water for your cat? The ridiculous things people do for their pets.
• Cannabis extract may shrink cancer tumours.
• Global water supplies will continue to diminish if we don't stop eating meat. Supersize me.
• Heatwaves in Europe and North America to get worse.
• Tokyo experiences record heatwave.
• Space shuttles to get special safety upgrades.
• Hubble captures giant space bubble.
• Dust disk around star may contain planets.
• Fossils, with tiny ear bones intact, reveal for the first time how the ancestors of whales and dolphins developed their finely tuned underwater hearing.
• We have now officially determined where Christopher Columbus isn't buried.
• A Belgian mission in southern Egypt discovers a 6,000-year old Pharaoh. But read the entire article to learn of an Australian that was arrested while prowling around the Sphinx recently in search of 'the key to the universe'.
• The Mississippi River has its mysteries, but none that can touch the one that unfolded on its banks 1,000 years ago.
• Explorers find world's deepest hole.
• Is science fiction about to go blind? Somebody needs to go see Alien vs. Predator and tell the rest of us about it.
• Heat waves in the 21st Century will be brutal.
• Nature is mankind's gravest threat.
• Existing technologies could stop the escalation of global warming for 50-years and work on implementing them can begin immediately. Well, it could curtail the emissions of greenhouse gasses anyway.
• Geologists say the end of the oil age is nigh. New recovery tech may tell a different story.
• Gravity equations give rise to a measles model.
• Does hunger trump GM fear?
• Britain gave the go ahead for human cloning, granting a license to scientists bidding to become the first in Europe to create stem cells used in medical research from a cloned human embryo.
• Iran tested an upgraded version of its conventional medium-range Shahab-3 missile, two weeks after Israel tested its Arrow II anti-missile missile.
• There's a war going on in Africa, people vs. giant swarms of locusts marauding through the desert states for the food supply.
• Twist it, stretch it double, fry it to 200°C, douse it with jet fuel—the stuff survives. Destined for shape-shifting aircraft wings and artificial muscles, investor interest is booming in metal rubber.
• A 480-pound woman died after living six-years on a couch.
• The ancient Olympians followed the Atkins Diet.
• Badgers threaten prehistoric burial sites in UK. Yes badgers. Oh, lighten-up, will you?
• An unknown underwater animal has been found in the Atlantic Ocean. (with pic)
• Dolphin groups rely on socialites to keep them together. Don't we all?
• Did that Texas rancher shoot and kill a Chupacabra or not? Experts from the San Antonio Zoo weigh-in on this one.
• The claim of Russian scientists to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion in Tunguska is climbing its way up and onto the more reputable news sources. But some are claiming it's a hoax. Here's the latest we've got.
• Strange skies, glowing lights, and crop formations - in Belgium and Holland, this time. Ol' Doug and Dave sure do get around, don't they.
• A Polish town plans to ask the EU for the equivalent of $126 million to help it build facilities for hundreds of visitors lured by its mysterious crop circles.
• Hugh vortices of superheated gas have been discovered swirling like bathtub drains high above the planet.
• The Mars Society of Australia is to begin searching for investors to help fund a proposed Mars research station in northern South Australia.
• Japan has unfurled a delicate solar sail in space.
• We're closing-in on what causes planet formation.
• A nearby star thought to harbor comets and asteroids now appears to be home to planets, too.
• India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015.
• Spinning black holes fire off violent jets.
• Madonna is causing a stir amongst traditional Kabbalists. Has she embraced this ancient tradition or is it just a glitterati fad?
• If aliens haven't found Earth yet then they need to hurry says SETI.
• Plus ca change...Egyptian political fraud and corruption over tomb thefts goes back 3,000 years.
• Yet another ocean "dead zone" this time off the coast of Oregon.
• Do sceptics deny widespread climate change because its easier than accepting the catastrophic truth?
• A few weeks ago we posted a story that US pollutants were being found in the UK. Now, it appears Asian soot is being found in New England skies.
• The Rendon Group are media spin-doctors extrordinaire, happy to work for whoever wins the US Presidential election, or whoever else will pay their fees.
• A retired General alleges that the US' new misslie defence system doesn't work and is unneeded. After all, terrorists don't use ICBMs.
• Project Thunderbird is attempting to follow DaVinci's vision and build a human-powered helicopter. Looks like far more fun than the X-Prize.
• Excavations at a site in Israel reveal details of the Middle East's Iron Age.
• While plans are afoot to take a closer look at a 6,000 year old industrial city and it's metalworking in Iran
• Ireland is the latest canditate for lost Atlantis. See, the Celts did everything first! Problem is, Ireland isn't drowned...and Milo Thatch will tell them its actually Iceland next.
• British scientists are given the go-ahead to clone human embyos for stem cell research. The pro-life lobby has already protested the decision.
• Climate change means more rain for Britain. As if that were possible, you scoff!
• T. Rex lived fast and died young. "He's sort of the James Dean of dinosaurs," says the scientist who did the study.
• U.S. uncovers Weapons of Mass Destruction, not in Iraq but in Texas and the national media ignores the story. Bill, can I pitch our tent on your land?
• Iraq destroyed its nuclear weapons programme in 1991 and never restarted it, says the man in charge of the programme.
• A Polish town is seeking grant aid to make big business out of it's crop circles.
• Gene therapy can turn a lazy monkey into a workaholic. I had a boss who just used to shout, but of course the TDG News Team do it for the love of knowledge.
• A long-running religious feud between pagans and christians in Australia will now go to court.
• US "Black Ops" weapons programmes are still going strong, including an attack boat and a fast, stealthy, long endurance UAV possibly armed with energy weapons which would be the biggest secret programme since the B-2 bomber.
• In October, three astronauts and a Canadian doctor will test the latest concepts in long-distance house calls using a unique underwater laboratory.
• Danish authorities ban Kellogg's enriched cereals as unsafe.
• Argentine ants form super colony spanning 100 kilometres in Australia.
• Building an intelligent robot is not as easy as you might think, because we really don't understand what makes for intelligence in the first place.

• Why shouldn't aliens look like us? But if they did how would anyone know they were aliens?
• India braces for glacial Tibet lake to spill over.
• Hand over nuclear weapons and know-how, says Iran.
• Iran uranium source revealed.
• 250 million-year-old cliff pictures discovered in SW China. I didn't think Cliff Richard was that old. He doesn't look it.
• Tidal wave disaster is just waiting to happen. If it isn't waiting to happen, it has already happened.
• Scientist warns of tsunami in the making.
• Does Britain have its own Lascaux?
• Gulf war vaccine still a problem, leading scientist tells inquiry. I suppose it would be if it gave you just about every disease you could think of, and several you couldn't.
• Explorers find UFO fragments in Tunguska meteorite area.
• The Henoch Prophecies from the Billy Meier Contacts.
• The hidden dangers of Soy allergens.
• Risk is high, cost is enormous, science is insignificant. Does anyone have a good rationale for sending humans into space? If they don't come back...
• Name game increases sex appeal.
• Origami technique boosts pioneering propulsion technology.
• Examining Newton's darker side.
• Have scientists detected ammonia on Mars?
• The ancient Olympics: A pagan toast to the gods.
• Shanghai two millenniums older than previously thought. So, does that increase or decrease house prices?
• Decoding the Megaliths.
• Easter Island's walking stones.
• Professor Paul Davies says if we're looking for a message from ET, we should perhaps look at our own DNA. I wonder if Zech Sitchin's ears are burning? David Grinspoon also discusses this 'living message' theory in Lonely Planets (see my review)...looks to be heading mainstream.
• So why wouldn't aliens look like us? That would make it real tough to fight off the alien invasion...
• Where's ET? That was the big question at the latest SETI conference.
• UFO enthusiast begins work on his next book.
• Three dummies die tragically as a rocket entered into the X-prize explodes just 1000 feet above the ground. Wonder how many volunteers they'll get to ride that sucker in future?
• NASA scientists sees possible mat of Martian microbes.
• New NASA super-computer to aid theorists and engineers. I bet that requisition form got filled out as soon as DOOM 3 got released last week...
• Good chance it could be a bumper year for the Perseid meteor shower.
• Hubble in trouble.
• Quantum entanglement and advanced space propulsion add up to spooky spaceflight.
• A conference where 'weird' is the standard fare. Sounds like our kind of gig.
• Security cameras catch waterspout in action.
• Ancient rock paintings found along river in south-west China.
• Underwater search of Mediterranean for Persian fleet concludes.
• Officials lose pub. Probably with the WMD somewhere...
• Don't panic, but a wall of water might be about to hit the east coast of the US. I think I've seen that film.
• Koko the signing gorilla asks for a dentist. Hell, I can talk and I still don't ask for the dentist.
• Cursor control by eye movement is good news for the disabled.
• 'Smart glass' keeps the heat out. I'll call it smart glass when it learns to brew beer and make pizza.
• New chemical method of predicting earthquakes?
• Laziness conference to be held this weekend in Switzerland. Write your own one-liner for this one.
• Antibodies clear Alzheimer's brain plaques.
• The latest JREF bulletin from James 'The Amazing' Ranty...err, Randi.
• While Paul Kurtz and the 'Center for Inquiry' go "quietly about their business". Is that 'quietly' as in with a loudspeaker and a baseball bat?
• Does witchcraft deserve a bad name?
• 'Grass circle' caused by wind?
• Meet the doctor who officially investigates miracles at Lourdes.
• The odd cult of Philip K. Dick. I don't think the writer is a fan of PKD somehow...
• Dr Zahi Hawass plans to investigate the second and third doors in the Great Pyramid shafts next year. My only question: what the hell is taking him so long?
• American scientists begin a new cold war with Russian and French scientists over whether or not Lake Vostok in Antarctica is sterile.
• Nick Redfern discusses unexplained events at Avebury's Stonehenge.
• Two nine-year-old girls see UFOs in Tennessee. No, it's not the Sunsphere!
• The Hubble telescope is in trouble again, as a vital instrument breaks down.
• Saturn's moon Titan is a planet wannabe.
• Suspended animation for long-distance space travel moves closer to reality.
• Twenty-four women are wanted to spend sixty days in bed for space-age tests.
• China searches for its first female astronaut.
• British women will never be chosen as according to a survey, technology makes life even more hectic.
• Orbital space tourism still viable, according to Canadian Arrow team.
• Egyptology experts claimed this vase to be a fake, but recent tests say it's at least 5000 years old, and older than the Giza Pyramids. I doubt we'll hear them admit their mistake.
• A bronze-age temple at least 3500 years old discovered in Jordan.
• Ancient pottery with plowing design could prove agriculture in China is 4800 years old.
• A mountain range shaped like a Sleeping Buddha found in northern Mongolia Autonomous Region. Good to hear there are still mountain ranges to be discovered in the world!
• Is modernity limited to homo sapiens, or did we share it with our distant relatives?
• El Nino could strike again this year. Where's Zorro when you need him?
• The population of Africa's white rhino has halved in the past 14 months due to poaching. As few as 17 survive in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Mississippi indian mounds to be investigated by archaeologists using a power parachute.
• Prozac is contaminating British water supplies due to its over-use and careless disposal.
• The HIV virus has jumped from primates to people seven times, not twice as previously thought, due to consumption of wild meats.

• The only human species left on earth is the result of an historical accident rather than Darwinian competition.
• An ancient site dates grain use to 20,000 BC.
• Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 4,000-year-old Barbie of the Bronze Age, the world's oldest toy.
• A mountain hiker stumbles on to a tomb that's nearly 5,000-years-old.
• Builders laying the foundations for a mosque in north-east Cairo found a tomb dating from the Pharaonic period intact but submerged in ground water up to the ceiling of the tomb. This find was blessed by the Head of the Supreme Council for Antiquities.
• A discovery in Sardinia causes the history of wine to be rewritten.
• Modern quarrying is a threat to Stonehenge.
• Mars appears to have been volcanically active more recently than previously supposed.
• Whoever, or whatever, is responsible for the August crop formation at Silbury Hill, borrowed the design in its border from the Aztec God Xochipilli.
• Either gargoyles or flying dog-faced kangaroos terrorize a family in Chile. Your call, but remember people laughed at Chupacabra until somebody killed one.
• Turkish cameras have recorded some so-called UFO images in the sky for the third time in the last 15 days. This story would be better with some so-called UFO images because they may be a hoax.
• Canadians are near a record number of UFO sightings.
• Those that pour over photographs of Mars and see worms, trees, UFOs, pyramids, subway stations, giant fungi, fossils, buried cities, and faces are not necessarily fraudulent evil bastard liars, just merely deluded.
• Sexual contact with aliens occurs frequently. Yeah, but those alien chicks get better looking when the bar starts to close.
• ET's coded messages may be inside our bodies.
• Rebecca Rosen doesn’t see dead people, but she does see their energy.
• Rumor has it that Bill Gates lusts for the Mario Brothers.
• The UK has a water pistol plan to save the great bustard.
• Can human intelligence be amplified with a brain-booster machine?
• A U.S. company claims that is is cloning cats. Yeah, we need more cats. Why don't they clone aardvarks?
• Federal safety officials urge the use of black boxes in automobiles.
• GM cotton cuts herbicide use in Australia. That's a good thing. See Cernig's story yesterday on the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
• A search in the deep sea finds species surprises and plastic bags. And you thought big corporations were the polluters.
• WANTED - A court jester to fill a post vacant for 350-years since England executed its king.
• Nigerian police have arrested 30-witch-doctors in a raid on fetish shrines where over 50-decomposing bodies and 20-human skulls were discovered. What year is this?
• Singapore scientists are looking at how the body can generate electricity to run mobile devices. Oh great, we're batteries. :o( You know how this movie ends. While we're on the subject, skin is used to transmit key data.
• Brain scientists unravel the mysteries of the night to determine what dreams are made of.
• The US army has commissioned a new supercomputer to simulate complex weapons systems. A robot guard will smoke out villains. SkyNet reads TDG, you know.
• A researcher hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens freezing them in mid-cluck, their leg and wing muscles paralyzed by an electrical charge created by the beam, even as their heart and lungs function normally. This interests the Pentagon.
• Can anti-Semitism ever end?
• Will the Temple Mount in Jerusalem lead to World War III? Would Islamic extremists target the Dome of the Rock or the al-Aksa mosques and lay the blame on Israel? Terrorists don't play dirty, do they? Is this article anti-religious?
• Scientists have worked out the formula for the perfect scary movie. And the winner is ..................
• The world may appear a more colorful place to women.
• Two Texas rivals, the Longhorns and the Aggies, join forces to build a telescope, Texas size.
• A human-like baby is found inside a sheep.
• The key to life on Mars is in the meanest deserts on Earth.
• The Mars rover Spirit has found no signs of a past lake in a crater. But, Spirit did reveal a magnetic Mars.
• Hey, it's a space race. A second team goes for space prize.
• Dramatic differences found in matter and antimatter. We suspected that there might be differences.
• A plan to celebrate the 'Year of Physics' by shining lights into the night sky has upset some astronomers.
• Our solar system may be an exception, not the rule. Feel lonely?

• Paranormal investigator Kenneth Biddle gets steamed about scruple-free journalists slandering his activities. Now he knows how the neo-pagans feel.
• That nasty "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico may be contributing to increases in shark attacks along the Texas coast.
• What goes around comes around. It looks like acid rain may actually reduce global warming from bogs and marshes. However, the article doessnt mention the effect of acid rain killing all those trees.
• A genetic analysis of the Australian dingo suggests the dogs tagged along on an epic expansion of people out of southern China around 6,000 years ago.
• In case you missed it: a woman says she was cursed and is now followed by a hail of stones.
• A boy in Siberia was reportedly brought up by a dog. I refuse to make the obvious crass comments about doggie greetings...
• Psychosurgery. Brain implants. Mind control. The stuff of movies - like The Manchurian Candidate - or a glimpse of the future?
• Fifteen crop circles in Southern England in less than 2 weeks. My, those guys with the boards and the rope have been busy...dont they have jobs to go to?
• A Japanese hiker has discovered six bones believed to be from a dinosaur that lived 78 million years ago. No, not Godzilla.
• A Pentagon report claims abrupt climate change is possible, but according to its author the report is being buried by Pentagon beaurocracy.
• The General who was in charge at Abu Graib alleges a high level conspiracy kept her ignorant of the abuses at the prison.
• The San Antonio Chupacabra is to be sent for DNA testing in an attempt to identify it.
• Alchemist, wizard, scientist: Sir Michael Scott was the prototype renaissance man and a new drama may help revive interest in his life and work. I had to include this one, as he is my direct ancestor.
• Wherever man may go, lawyers are quick to follow, and for some decades now, a forward-thinking cluster of attorneys have their sights set on outer-space. I loved the bit about the three brothers who sued the US claiming they inherited Mars from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.
• North Korea fields two new ICBM systems ...meanwhile it looks like the funding for part of the technology may have come from The Rev. Moon, who was recently crowned "Messiah" in a well attended senate event.
• A new study reveals that retreating Alaskan ice may trigger earthquakes.
• The fortune tellers of Los Angeles are safe from a police crackdown, and won't require licenses. But of course they already knew that.
• Shock news! Over half of male college students drink heavily! A report on the negative effects of binge drinking.
• The Australian Government is funding a school ran by the doomsday cult of William Kamm. Mind you, he isn't the only person who claims to be the true pope.
• The ethical arguments over increasing the human lifespan. A thought-provoking subject.
• Russia is to begin charging the US for deliveries to the International Space Station.
• Studies show that feathered dinosaur had a bird-brain and could probably fly.
• Human's hearing is like a Barn Owl's in some ranges, like a gerbil's in others
• The tale of a ghost who likes modern conveniences, from Tennessee.
• The Red Planet had active volcanoes much more recently than everyone thought.
• A look at the world of dope-testing for athletes in advance of the Olympics.
• Astronomers discover a new class of cosmic explosion more powerful than a supernova.
• Strategies for collecting evidence of intelligent Extra-Terrestrial activity.
• Ancient tradition lives on in Tripoli's spices souq.
• Man wins right to stick tongue out on passport photo.
• Whenever Bush's approval ratings start slipping the President's administration issues a terrorist warning saying an attack is imminent. Wonder if that is what Blair is up to?
• Archivists to preserve recording of JFK assassination.
• Was 911 allowed to happen?
• Is the solar system special?
• Beneath Antarctica's ice lies mysterious Lake Vostok.
• Spacewalkers cope with phantom menace.
• Ancient life form may help newest technologies.
• Ancient tomb yields secrets to builders of Egyptian mosque.
• Pre-911 acts led to alerts.
• Alexander the Great's death debated.
• Polystyrene homes planned for Afghans. So, who is pocketing all the spare cash?
• Could astronauts sleep their way to the stars? And if so, should they get paid?
• Science more creative and less true than many believe. That sentence is a real mind-melter.
• Dramatic difference between behaviour of matter and anti-matter discovered. They haven't discovered what anti means, have they?
• Unreliable websites put patients at risk: Expert in complementary medicine criticizes bogus cancer advice. Kind of what unreliable means, though.
• Women who believe in long life bear sons.
• US Army orders weapons supercomputer. Skynet on the way?
• Anomalous ground holes appear in the Russian province. Finally someone in Russia has seen Caddyshack.
• The games are as flawed today as they were in ancient Greece.
• Could gene technology be used illegally to increase an athlete's performance?
• The medical timebomb: too many women doctors.
• Where have all the frogs gone?
• Forbidden Science: What can studies of pornography, prostitutes, and seedy truck stops contribute to society?
• Robert Bauval talks about the archaeological evidence for a star cult before the Pyramid Texts. Also on the Talisman board he mentions some changes to the book for the paperback edition.
• Egyptian archaeologists may have found the largest statue of Ramses II yet. And that's saying something, the grand old pharaoh wasn't afraid to be accused of megalomania.
• A young scholar attempts to decode the megaliths of Malta.
• Robert Ballard says his Black Sea expedition has failed to find a 'smoking gun' for the 'Great Flood'.
• Are archaeologists being recruited to rewrite Indian history on behalf of Hindu hard-liners?
• The fight to save Islam's earliest mosques.
• Two new Inca observatories found in Central Peru.
• Ancient Chinese city being swallowed by sand dunes.
• Hi-tech vet tool may be used to clean stone circle.
• NASA wish-list for its 'Search for Origins' program has been unveiled.
• The Sun dims in strange ways. Not to mention that less sunlight is reaching us.
• Why not take a trip to Mars, virtually.
• Cassini captures Saturn throwing a shadow over its famous rings.
• Jesus and Mary Magdalene - the sacred marriage in Gnosticism.
• Argentinian archbishop addresses alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
• Will the latest investigation into Princess Diana's death really bring speculation to an end?
• Hail the Goddess! Woman complains of being plagued by stones falling from the sky.
• 'Champ' is back in the news, after vacationers at Lake Champlain see a seagull fall prey to snake-like creature.
• Tiger roams New York suburb.
• EMF explanation for ghosts.
• Nepalese boy stops crying stones, and makes the change to thorns.
• Strange cloud baffles residents.
• Audio from an NPR broadcast discussing why eels are disappearing worldwide.
• Dietary neuro-toxin linked to Alzheimer's Disease.
• Scientists turn blood into chocolate and yoghurt. Somehow I can't see those products flying off the shelf.
• Animated computer face helps deaf chat on phone.
• Francis Crick, co-discoverer and pioneer of DNA, died aged 88. Rest in peace.
• Nanotechnology poses no new risks. New risks? I'm worried about the old risks.
• Dark matter, the mysterious force that propels our Universe, is linked to the recently discovered mass of Neutrinos. Accelerons play a part somehow. I'm confused. Where's Philip Pullman when I need him.
• Our universe has at least 30 billion years left. Phew, that's a relief, but I'm not worried about the universe ... I'm worried how long planet Earth has.
• You're invited to help catalog Mars. RSVP to NASA.
• Messenger, the first mission to Mercury in almost 30 years, is set to go.
• Forget about Secret Squirrel, it's Ultrasonic Squirrel. No wonder I couldn't catch one at the University of Tennessee four years ago ...
• Police use pepper spray on annoying cell phone users during movie screening. Perhaps Frequency-Selective Wallpaper is the answer but, Cinema Nazi that I am, I still like the pepper spray option.
• Forget about sunscreen at summer beaches, use shark repellent.
• Can Ecstasy help trauma victims heal emotional wounds?
• The benefits of acupuncture for post-op patients.
• No, it's not a new Subway menu. Aussie mini-sub will revolutionise deep sea exploration.
• Can you catch the world's smallest fish with the world's weirdest worm? Dwarf males live inside the female, who munches on dead whales.
• The Vatican tells feminists to get back in the kitchen and cook the Pope his dinner. Why is the Catholic Church so afraid of women? Oh, they met my ex-girlfriend.
• China's internet censorship aims to ban pornography. Has anyone told them providing decent sex education is the better way to go?
• 9/11 report is vague on technology.
• Ancient site of Qumran is boring, yawn Israeli archaeologists.
• Mystery plague that swept the world in the 1920s is identified as Encephalitis Lethargica. I may have a case of that. British writer Neil Gaiman used the disease in his Sandman comics.
• A muddy piece of dirt discovered at Aberdeenshire may not look like much, but it was once a jewelled cross.
• Ancient city of Heicheng being buried by shifting desert sands. The article proper is below all of the great photographs.
• Evidence for links between Ancient China and South America: Xian's Altar of Heaven and Muyuqmarka, Sacsayhuaman, Peru.
• Black Sea investigation yields no evidence of cataclysmic flooding. I met Dr Walter Pitman many years ago and his geographical evidence is conclusive: there was massive flooding of the Black Sea thousands of years ago.
• Student proves Government beaurocrats have no sense of humour when they demand he remove a website parodying what to do to prevent terrorist attacks. Parody site is here.
• Bill Gates ignores my plea to fix Internet Explorer (which has been crashing on me all weekend and just crashed again) and goes after Google's excellent news search engine instead. Could compiling the news for TDG get any easier?