[URL="http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/message-in-a-bottle-reveals-fact-about-glacier/"]Message in a bottle reveals fact about glacier[/URL]

[QUOTE]Researchers in a remote locale in the Arctic discovered the most unusual message in a bottle, one that wasn’t ”tossed into the ocean many years ago.” In fact, it wasn’t tossed in the ocean at all.

No, this message in a bottle was placed under a pile of rocks, a cairn, near the edge of a glacier in 1959 and contained an incredible message about global warming.

The letter from American geologist Paul T. Walker revealed that the cairn was built 168.3 feet from the edge of the glacier and asked anyone who found the message to re-measure the distance and send the information back to him and colleague Albert Crary.[/QUOTE]

[url=www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25426424]Billion star mapper' lifts off[/url]: [i]Europe sends its Gaia mission into orbit to map the precise positions and distances to more than a billion stars.[/i]

Since one of the quotees mentioned the resolution of the scope in terms of "Euro coin on the moon" and thus opened the door, your honor, allow me to put the cost of the mission in central-banker terms: it is roughly the amount of new money Ben Bernanke & Co. e-print every 90 minutes of each and every trading day in order to "support" the currently once-again-frothy "markets". (And the ECB is likely no better).

Ah, national priorities...

[url=nautil.us/issue/8/home/beer-domesticated-man]Study: Beer, not bread, domestcated man[/url]
[quote]The domestication of wild grains has played a major role in human evolution, facilitating the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one based on agriculture. You might think that the grains were used for bread, which today represents a basic staple. But some scientists argue that it wasn’t bread that motivated our ancestors to start grain farming. It was beer. Man, they say, chose pints over pastry.[/quote]
It's fun to read this one with an imaginary Ahhnold-style accent ... "Yah, Beeahh is da key..."

[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bring-science-home-light-wave-particle"]Double-Slit Science: How Light Can Be Both a Particle and a Wave[/URL]

[URL="http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328"]Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131212132515.htm"]Smashing Science: Scientists Discover How Explosives Respond to Shockwaves[/URL]

[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-spector-md/sleep_b_4402920.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"]Brain Washing: Sleep's Primary Function?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.medicaldaily.com/life-span-mutant-worms-increased-500-human-years-what-does-mean-aging-therapies-264887"]Life-Span Of Mutant Worms Increased To 500 Human Years: What Does This Mean For Aging Therapies?[/URL]

[URL="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/12/muting-the-mozart-effect/"]Muting the Mozart effect[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;362720][URL="http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328"]Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram[/URL][/QUOTE]

Typical overhyping of "latest string theory maths-turbation proves string theorists a bunch of wankers" -- check out the "small caveat" buried at the end of the blurb, which appears just a tad at odds with the loud headline:
[quote]Neither of the model universes explored by the Japanese team resembles our own, Maldacena notes.[/quote]

[URL="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5222932/smithsonian-adds-flower-halo-2600-to-permanent-collection"]Smithsonian calls video games art, adds two to permanent collection[/URL]

[URL="http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/12/12/scientists-discover-double-meaning-in-genetic-code/"]Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code[/URL]

[URL="http://www.today.com/health/all-constant-instagramming-ruining-our-memories-2D11730309"]All that constant Instagramming is ruining our memories[/URL]

[URL="https://medium.com/matter/70c3d64ff221"]The boy whose brain could unlock autism[/URL]

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25517466"]UK Met. Office to begin daily weather predictions.
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[QUOTE=xilman;362922][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25517466"]UK Met. Office to begin daily weather predictions.
[/URL][/QUOTE]... daily [b]space[/b] weather predictions, that is.

[URL="http://www.livescience.com/26681-most-beautiful-mathematical-equations.html"]Most Beautiful Equations[/URL]

[url=www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25663810]Universe measured to 1% accuracy[/url]

[URL="http://www.nature.com/news/what-to-expect-in-2014-1.14448"]What to Expect in 2014[/URL]

[URL="http://www.medicaldaily.com/pure-word-blindness-stopped-letter-tracing-technique-what-alexia-without-agraphia-266242"]Pure Word Blindness Stopped With Letter Tracing Technique: What Is Alexia Without Agraphia?[/URL]