Mummified Remains from 1948 Plane Crash Identified | LiveScience:
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine years of sleuthing, advanced DNA science and cutting-edge forensic techniques have finally put a name to a mummified hand and arm found in an Alaska glacier.”
Robot sea bream ::: Pink Tentacle
“Engineers at the University of Kitakyushu have developed an underwater survey robot that looks good enough to eat. “Tai-robot-kun,” a 7-kilogram (15.4 lb) robotic sea bream (red snapper) with a silicone body covered in realistically hand-painted scales, features a unique propulsion system that allows it to move its tail and drift silently through the water like a real fish.”
Tags: robot, seabream, science, red snapper
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | ‘Yeti hair’ to get DNA analysis:
Ape expert Ian Redmond says the hairs bear a “startling resemblance” to similar hairs collected by Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary. He told the BBC the Indian hairs are “potentially very exciting”.
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“A three-part documentary by Frank Theys
Are we prepared for dealing with the prospect that humanity is not the end of evolution? Technocalyps is an intriguing three-part documentary on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.”
[Update: I've had a chance to watch the first part. Very interesting. The bit where a cat is being shown moving images from a film, and these images are being read back directly from the cats brain - and the human faces the cat is processing actually look a little cat-like. Speculative, but compelling.]
Actually, what’s really interesting is the list of comments following the article. I love it when science meets superstition.
Scientists discover ’shadow person’ | COSMOS magazine:
“Ever feel as though you’re being followed? As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move? It might be your ‘shadow person’, created by unusual activity in a specific brain region, a new study shows.”
[Image from Wikipedia]
Maybe there’s a tiny, tiny grain of truth in the reptilian humanoid conspiracy?
Gooey Origin of Human Placenta Revealed:
“Someone seeing for the first time a placenta spill out of a woman’s body after childbirth is likely surprised at how large it is and might wonder where it really came from. Scientists have no clue, either, at least insofar as evolution is concerned.”
Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind - The List Universe:
“While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. This is a list of the top ten strange mental phenomena.”
What happens when a wind turbine suffers from brake failure? Watch to find out. Gives you a sense of the amount of energy converted by these things.
It’s all in your head. Which is a bit boring.
Scientists “see” ghosts - Telegraph:
“The reason that apparitions, bogeymen and phantoms like to lurk in the shadows may have been revealed by scientists.”
Did you know that space has a smell? According to ISS Science Officer Don Pettit, it does. Read on.
HSF - International Space Station:
“Few people have experienced traveling into space. Even fewer have experienced the smell of space…”
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