Live Science: Prehistoric Cemetery Reveals Man and Fox Were Pals

I'll hopefully post an update soon - I've had a number of things going on recently.

Just a quick post about all the 'New Astrology' stuff in the media talking about how Astrologers are dumb as the stars have change ( Read more... )

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Root: open (19%)
Sacral: under-active (-44%)
Navel: under-active (6%)
Heart: open (44%)
Throat: open (50%)
Third Eye: open (56%)
Crown: open (50%)

Chakra testMakes sense - I've had serious issues this year with nervousness over finances until I buckled down and got it now to a somewhat healthy level. I do have some serious problems with ( Read more... )

Some Links - Most from Fark (and a couple of other places I forget):

Vatican scientist says belief in God and aliens is OK

Vatican: Aliens created by God could exist, says Church astronomer

Enthusiasts say 'Amen' as Vatican allows alien belief

Muslim group handing out free Qu'rans across the country

Fox News: Reconciling God and Science

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The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise. The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely ( Read more... )

Scott Adams has had a bunch of interesting posts/discussions recently on Global Warming:

Global Warming - Part 1
Global Warming - Part 2
Peer Review

Edit:

Global Warming - Part 3
Global Warming - Part 4

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New Scientist: New Study Links HPV (through the medium of Oral Sex) to Throat CancerWith something like this I'd really like to see the original study, it's methods, and the hard data - percentages say nothing and are often used to make numbers look a bit more impressive when they are fairly insignificant... The lack of any actual numbers ( Read more... )

American archeologists have discovered an ancient formula for brewing wine on the fragments of pottery uncovered from the 9000-year-old Jiahu ruins in Henan Province. The composition was successfully analyzed and now one American brewing company uses the same formula to make ancient Chinese wine as a modern beer, naming it "Château Jiahu." It has ( Read more... )

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Found this interesting:

ScienceBlogs: The Myth of Infantile Amnesia

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