Status Quo fan hangs himself after wife left him for Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt - it wasn't until December 2003 that, quite naturally & normally for any red blooded male, Mr Hewitt agreed to let Rick sleep with his wife - as long as he could join in. I mean, this *is* Rick Parfitt we are talking about. Warning: Daily Fail more inside

Alpha Centauri may have an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone.

Teaching Crows to do Useful Stuff - The goal of this project is to create a device that will autonomously train crows. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Crows Have Human-Like Intelligence more inside

Can a thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain be built from a supercomputer? - The behavior of the computer replicates, with shocking precision, the cellular events unfolding inside a mind. "This is the first model of the brain that has been built from the bottom-up," says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the director of the Blue Brain project. "There are lots of models out there, but this is the only one that is totally biologically accurate. We began with the most basic facts about the brain and just worked from there." more inside

Man buried alive saved by positive thinking, Buddhist meditation, and air trapped in his hat - 'Doctors were astounded, saying that a person could normally not live longer than five minutes in a similar sealed space. One local doctor said: “It’s a miracle that he’s alive after being buried for two hours.”'

Did chimp and human ancestors interbreed? - The earliest known ancestors of modern humans might have reproduced with early chimpanzees to create a hybrid species, a new genetic analysis suggests. Fundies are gonna love this.

Henry the Hexapus of Blackpool - picture here.

Top 15 Misconceptions about Evolution

How to build a Cardboard Spaceship - Snarfled from the blort

Curious George: UK Earthquake? - How's everyone o'er there in Blighty, did you just get an earthquake?

How to Exercise an Open Mind - Simply put, doing unique, random, different, and ridiculous things is a good way to exercise the mind and promote new ways of thinking about the world around us. One hour of increased brain activity via thinking a lot or experiencing new stimuli can make you smarter, more energetic, more creative, more sociable, and more open to new experiences and ways of thinking. from wikiHow

The entire contents of Design Magazine (1965-1974)

Curious George: How reliable is opednews.com? just interested. OpEdNews.Com

Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night at around -30 degrees Celsius, casting aside skis, food, boots and most of their clothes. Soon they would be dead, many of them with unexplained physical injuries more suited to car crash victims, and dosed with radiation. Their deaths are still unexplained, 49 years later. The Dyatlov Pass Mystery. more inside

Lost in translation - Stewart Lee (who he? - Ed) on the German sense of humour. A rather good old article from the Grauniad.

The Metamorphosis of the Cecropia Silkmoth Larva - pics. This is Hyalophora cecropia, one of the largest moths of North America, member of the Saturniidae family.

Another Ancient city discovered in India - Indian archaeologists say they have found remains which point to the existence of a city about 7,000 years old at Sisupalgarh, inland in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. more inside

Sewage Workers Stalked by 'Zombie' in Underground Tunnels - shurely shome mishtake? Jobbie not Zombie

Debunking Latest Anti-Pot Quack Science - 'Marijuana Makes Your Teeth Fall Out' and other nonsense.

Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel' - A study published in Science Magazine presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product that the Earth generates naturally. more inside