... I might as well make an official 'hiatus' post, declaring the likelihood that I won't really be making any more posts here for the time being (and admitting the reality that I've already pretty much abandoned it, for a long time now ( Read more... )

Today is the anniversary of a terrible day -- a stupid, pointless, unspeakably tragic killing. But that is not the vibe that I feel in the air. There is joy today, not sadness. A celebration of a huge, important, wonderful life that still inspires hundreds of millions daily ( Read more... )

Apparently, on Sunday, 60 Minutes had a story on Mary Schweitzer and John Horner's discovery of T. rex soft tissue, and Horner's idea about switching old genes on to turn chickens into old-fashioned, long-tailed and sharp-toothed dinosaurs ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091020/sc_space/getoutorionidmeteorshowerpeaksovernightRead more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091020/ts_alt_afp/usexecutionjusticeRead more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8255418.stmRead more... )

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/pressroom/pressrelease/pr062403.cfmRead more... )

I've been watching the Animal Planet show Untamed and Uncut a lot lately. In case you're unfamiliar with it, it's all real-life videos taken by regular people of extraordinary animal rescues (by which I mean both rescuing animals, and rescuing people from animal attacks ( Read more... )

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This brief news story I just watched ( http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=15872679&src=news ) about a new dinosaur-egg discovery rather encapsulates the frustration that popular reportage of science engenders in one ( Read more... )