20 Jan 2005

This is why my friend Kat is a double hard woman plus she has real fangs! … man what a cool story! While men mope in bed with the sniffles feeling all sorry for themselves, women get on with it. There’s no time considering your typical woman is bred to raise 2 kids (+ 1

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20 Jan 2005

Tsunami folklore ‘saved islanders’BBC NEWS: “Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami. The aboriginal tribes – some of the oldest and most isolated in the world – have oral traditions apparently developed from previous earthquakes that may

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20 Jan 2005

Boy cuttlefish ‘dress as girls’Diminutive Giant Australian Cuttlefish males have taken to pretending to be female to elbow out larger love rivals. “We found that female mimickers could successfully deceive the consort male and that they were able to position themselves near the female in 30 out of 62 attempts.”~ Dr Roger Hanlon

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20 Jan 2005

Man constructs 18-foot-tall mecha (pic)It will shoot nine-inch nails from the shoulders and 20-foot flames from forearms! “The red backlit eyes of his 18-foot hydraulic mecha – please don’t call it a robot – will glow, but they’re just for show. Five cameras will be the real eyes, allowing the operator riding inside the steel

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19 Jan 2005

Stopping light gives atoms a memory“The ability to stop light using shock-waves in gas could write information onto atoms at specific locations, aiding quantum computing. In recent years, innovative quantum tricks have slowed down light, even stopping it altogether. Now by switching the light source off at the right time it might be possible to

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