A grad student at the University of Victoria may have found evidence of the development of writing, that is to say, abstract symbols, in neolithic cave paintings.

In other news, I made awesome pesto from scratch last night, along with garlic bread, salad, and Joel-Henry's famous apple tartlets. It was delicious!

There's a huge and terrifying sinkhole in Guatamala! And apparently this isn't the first time this has happened. This world of ours is truly frightening.

(although possibly more frightening is the fact that apparently now I'm getting my news from ihasatardis. That's not good.)

Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary, died yesterday at age 72.

http://www.livedaily.com/news/20149.html

:(

Just saw this and thought it deserved to be reposted. Giant rats, frogs with fangs, and tree-dwelling kangaroos. Awesome.

So, once again Canada has managed what we cannot - successful mathematical modeling of the coming zombie apocalypse.

I actually sat and worked on this problem a bit back when I was taking Differential Equations - fun stuff.

Also, once again George A. Romero proves prophetic - he told us back in Land of the Dead that Canada was proof against ( Read more... )

It seems that the military has developed a steam-powered carrion-eating robot.

From News of the Weird:

Failure to Communicate: The man who tried to rob the Cafe Treo in Salt Lake City in April likely told the employee to "fill" the bag, but when the employee reached over and earnestly started to "feel" the bag (according to police), the robber said, "You've gotta be kidding me" and ran out of the store. [KSL-TV (Salt Lake ( Read more... )

From today's Lexical Semantics paper ( Read more... )

This weekend was the Ohio Sacred Harp convention, in Golden Gate Park in Brookville, a tiny little town just outside of Dayton. I've never sung before with 30 people on a part - it was huge and beautiful and exciting. It's a shame we couldn't go back today too ( Read more... )

"It’s the cutest little 120-million-year-old flying reptile you could ever hope to see."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/12obpter.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin