Brain scans of 20 devout Christians “found no evidence of anything mystical”, says researcher.
Natural World
Comedy Single
What would happen if you covered a flock of sheep in LED’s, let them loose on a dark hillside, rounded them up with a sheepdog then filmed the result?
Via Eric’s Michel Vuilsteke’s that is, I repeat Eric’s excellent Komma Punt Log (see comments below) comes Extreme Shepherding –
Enjoy.
UPDATE:
Bugger. The Guardian spotted it. I hate it when they do that.
UPDATE II:
Edited to reflect my momentary stupidity and gross bad manners. Sorry Eric.
R.I.P. Space Bat
A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery’s external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch.
Of course, it might have been the Alien Space Bat responsible for the implausible divergence of history we suffered through the past eight years going back home…
New Forms Most Wonderful
And still the universe surprises us…
National Geographic, February 23, 2009–With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes–topped by green, orblike lenses–in a picture released today but taken in 2004.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California’s central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.
Video:
Spiders in Spa-a-a-ce
Remember that spider that went missing from the International Space Station? Well, they haven’t found it yet, but the remaining spider seems to have found its “space legs”:
“We noticed the spider made a symmetrical web,” space station commander Mike Fincke told ground controllers on Friday. “We’re really amazed that the spider could adapt to space so quickly.”