October 31, 2007 – 11:34 pm
From The Independent by Steve Connor.
King Solomon is said to have told sluggards to look to the hard-working ant and be wise. Aesop, too, extolled the virtues of the humble ant in his fable explaining why the insect’s constant toiling through the summer months would make for an easier winter compared with the fortunes of [...]
October 21, 2007 – 8:51 pm
From DamnInteresting.com by Alan Bellows.
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The sea was host to a plethora of anaerobic microorganisms, but there were also a few members of a newly evolved variety: cyanobacteria. These adapted bacteria were the first to use water and sunlight for photosynthesis, producing oxygen as a by-product of their metabolism.
The cyanobacteria were a struggling minority at first, [...]
October 19, 2007 – 8:40 pm
From Daily Mail.
It’s got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there. The discovery was announced today by a team of European astronomers, using a telescope in La Silla in the Chilean Andes.
The [...]
October 19, 2007 – 1:37 am
From SharpBrains.
They have put together a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most in their blog and speaking engagements.
They classify them into attention, memory, pattern recognition and planning, visual workouts and illusions, logic, math puzzles and some fun experiments.
Have a good workout!
October 12, 2007 – 2:19 pm
From BBC News.
Stuart Baker-Brown, 43, a photographer and writer based in Dorset, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996. On World Mental Health Day, he delivers a unique personal insight into how his condition has nurtured his artistic expression.
In the past, schizophrenia has broken my life and taken away many of life’s opportunities, such as work [...]
October 11, 2007 – 1:39 pm
From Washington Post by Rick Weiss.
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
“I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or [...]