Burma's/Myanmar's Prime Minister has been ousted by military hardliner Soe Win. This doesn't look good for Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy movement, since Soe Win takes a hard line against them. The political situation still looks bleak in Burma (Flash.) I wonder if Burma's power play leaves India smiling.

Court says whales and dolphins cannot sue Bush. This is a sad day for the Cetacean Community.

The Great Bear in Maine.

People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrids.

Scientists discover a new group of giant apes in central Africa, which could be a new species of primate.

In Asia, elephants are losing out against man. Some people are trying to help them, though. I think it would be nice if we could offer some elephants a new home in North America.

Stem cells pump out healing molecules. Some birth defects might be prevented by injecting mothers with stem cells. There have been some promising findings in stem cell research lately, but this is something new.

All the ash from Mount St. Helens could help Bigfoot researchers. I wonder how the Sasquatch Militia feels about this.

Spreading Scandinavian Genes. I, for one, salute our masturbating Viking overlords.

A Virtuoso and His Technology. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project. [Via WorldChanging.]

The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. "Combining science and stewardship, we seek to ensure that the world-renowned wilderness, wildlife, native plants, and natural processes of the Yellowstone to Yukon region continue to function as an interconnected web of life, capable of supporting all of the natural and human communities that reside within it, for now and for future generations."

“How To Do The Asian Squat” (11 MB Quicktime.)

The Genesis Project. "Where might you find the origins of life in the universe? Astrobiologists are looking everywhere — in laboratories, in the icy dark of Antarctic waters and, someday, beneath the surface of one of Jupiter's moons."

Le Parkour. L'art du deplacement. [Via MeFi.]

Baxter vs. Diebold. Democracy in peril? Send in the chimpanzee!

A Shoggoth on the Roof.

The Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard University. Note the morph in the top right corner. [Via Boing Boing.]

Self-sustaining killer robot creates a stink. This should be especially ominous to monkeys, as these robots would nulify our greatest defense, namely the throwing of feces. We're doomed!

"Dear God," I muttered. "I think the Candidate has bolts in his neck." A new column by Spider Jerusalem, aka Warren Ellis.

Capsula Mundi. The first italian project to promote ecological burial. [Via Aeiou.]