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News for the day:
After Near Extinction, Humans Split Into Isolated Bands
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-humans-extinct.html
About 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups-living apart for a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says.
The Future of Sports
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080425-space-station-sports.html
Astronauts, by necessity, work hard in space. But during their precious time off aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some spaceflyers are picking their brains to come up with the future of space sports.
I started to watch Caligula, the one with Malcolm McDowell, and realized I was no where near stoned enough. Have you seen this? I'm definitely sitting down next weekend and watching it.
Brand names 'as old as civilisation itself'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=0LECYUVDXYG0NQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/scibrand123.xml&site=30&page=0
Bottle stops used five millennia ago in ancient Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), the birthplace of cities and writing, carried symbols that marked them out as the earliest evidence of branded goods.
nite nite
After Near Extinction, Humans Split Into Isolated Bands
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080424-humans-extinct.html
About 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups-living apart for a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says.
The Future of Sports
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080425-space-station-sports.html
Astronauts, by necessity, work hard in space. But during their precious time off aboard the International Space Station (ISS), some spaceflyers are picking their brains to come up with the future of space sports.
I started to watch Caligula, the one with Malcolm McDowell, and realized I was no where near stoned enough. Have you seen this? I'm definitely sitting down next weekend and watching it.
Brand names 'as old as civilisation itself'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=0LECYUVDXYG0NQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/scibrand123.xml&site=30&page=0
Bottle stops used five millennia ago in ancient Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), the birthplace of cities and writing, carried symbols that marked them out as the earliest evidence of branded goods.
nite nite