For Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Feminists cry foul over Fat Princess

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/feminists-cry-foul-over-fat-princess/1232315

Labrador 'runs' for mayor of Fairhope, Alabama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_fe_st/odd_fido_for_mayor;_ylt=AgfacEL0PhcUu5GujbDtOLas0NUE

Sweet fruit drinks found to lead to diabetes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/hl_nm/diabetes_calories_dc;_ylt=Asm6T.9MwBxLfXK.GF0luSms0NUE

Hurricane Dolly may have shrunk Gulf 'dead zone'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_re_us/dead_zone;_ylt=AsEoqKdCULUBGX0TPqp2t7Ks0NUE

Tree shrews thrive, hangover-free, on alcohol

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/od_nm/alcohol_dc;_ylt=AvXzQ3lU.LC0skhgJ1bNbe2s0NUE

Rare new Tanzania monkey "at risk of extinction"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/sc_nm/science_monkey_dc;_ylt=Al0RoMobF_.wSf496ygpPwQPLBIF

Rungwecebus kipunji

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipunji

Thousands evacuated in Budapest as WW2 bomb found

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/hungary_bomb_dc;_ylt=Agbm1zXTyDpGpFybOB0_d2kDW7oF

Cavers recover ancient bear bones

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7528648.stm

Rare amphibian found in India

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7531055.stm

Russian subs reach bottom of Lake Baikal

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25907619/

Piecing Together An Extinct Lemur, Large As A Big Baboon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728192653.htm

Hadropithecus stenognathus

http://cacajao.tripod.com/hadropithecus_stenognathus.html

Fungus Foot Baths Could Save Bees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728081621.htm

Diamonds May Have Been Life's Best Friend On Primordial Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728220324.htm

Diamond

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond

What Do Squid Hear?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728221125.htm

There's life in space, says someone who's been there

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/t118421-japan-space/

Sunscreen for Crops

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/07/28/crop.sunscreen.ap/index.html

Sir Ed helps close net on elusive yeti

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4634395a11.html

Orangutans concoct plant-based soothing balm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/orangutan_balm/

For Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by WlllyVolk

New Zealand scientists thaw 1,000-pound squid corpse - Yahoo! News



Colossal Squid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Judge orders federal government to decide polar bear listing



Legless lizard found in Brazil may be new species - Yahoo! News



Shark expert: Autopsy confirms great white killed triathlete - Yahoo! News


Carcharodon carcharias


Bug Has Sex with Orchids - Yahoo! News




Bug Has Sex with Orchids LiveScience



BBC NEWS Technology GTA game 'to break sales records'



Grand Theft Auto IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


BBC NEWS Europe UN sets up food crisis task force



World Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BBC NEWS Europe Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents



Rattus



BBC NEWS Technology Free game hopes to save gorillas




BBC NEWS Science/Nature Device 'spins silk like spiders'


Spider silk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific 'Free Tibet' flags made in China



International Tibet Independence Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Free Tibet Campaign; A Free Tibet and end to Communist Chinese Rule


BBC NEWS UK England X-rays uncover 'hidden portrait'



Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Gene Therapy Improves Vision In Nearly Blind Patients



Human Protein May Offer Novel Target For Blocking HIV Infection: Successful In Lab



When Did Dinosaurs Go Extinct? Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Dating Refined



Argon-argon dating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Endangered Right Whales Protected With New Warning Buoys In Shipping Lanes



Eubalaena



Will Corals Survive The Stormy Future?



Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says



Scientists Make Chemical Cousin Of DNA For Use As New Nanotechnology Building Block

Glycerol nucleic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Ancient Ecosystems Organized Much Like Our Own



Cambrian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Dolphins collide mid-air, one dies - Science- msnbc.com



Tursiops truncatus


Marching sand dunes stir up Mars mystery - LiveScience- msnbc.com



Meridiani Planum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Israeli military enlists robotic soldier - Innovation- msnbc.com



Unmanned ground vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For Monday, March 31, 2008

Excavation starts at Stonehenge



Stonehenge



US presidential manuscripts on sale



Abraham Lincoln



Rooks team up to solve problems



Corvus frugilegus



Elderly osprey set for 50th egg



Pandion haliaetus



Warning on plastic's toxic threat

Plastics: environmental impact

Plastics: environmental impact (environmental literacy council)



Giant preserved squid on display


Architeuthis dux

Squid Beak Is Both Hard And Soft, A Material That Engineers Want To Copy



American West Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Rest Of World, New Analysis Shows

Bolts Of Blue Lightning Thrusting Upward And Other Weird Lightning Explained


New Software Aids Researchers Analyzing Millions Of DNA Sequences


Salmonella Bacteria Turned Into Cancer Fighting Robots



Compressed Stars: Physicists Compress Unstable Nucleus Of Nickel 56 For First Time



Isotopes of Nickel



Space Radiation Too Deadly For Mars Mission



Health threat from cosmic rays



Discovery Of Oldest Known Traces Of Mineralization Caused By Micro-organisms



Stromatolite


Spring ’08 Movie Guide (MSNBC.com)



Embattled HUD chief resigns, cites family



Alphonso Jackson



Lehman sues Japanese broker for $350 million



Lehman Brothers


Marubeni.com


Singer Sean Levert dies after jail emergency



LeVert



Doctors wary after cholesterol drug flop



Ezetimibe/simvastatin



Dith Pran


Early Picasso nude found in English bedroom



Pablo Picasso



Muslims more numerous than Catholics



Catholicism



Islam



Farmers expected to plant less corn



Zea mays







Pernod Ricard buys Sweden's Absolut



Pernod Ricard



Absolut Vodka


Humane Society seeks sea lion injunction



Sea lion


Rare parrot chicks born in New Zealand



Strigops habroptilus


Indonesian child tests positive for bird flu