These are our favorite “green” sports cars. Some get awesome gas mileage while smoking the competition, and others use advanced bio-fuels to eek out ever higher performance over their gas-guzzling brethren. Big Oil doesn’t like any of them, because they all mean one thing: if you buy them, Big Oil makes less money. read more [...]
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The accepted timescale of Man’s evolution is being challenged by a German archaeologist who claims to have found evidence that Homo erectus — mankind’s early ancestor, who migrated from Africa to Asia and Europe — began living in settled communities long before the accepted time of 10,000 years ago. read more | digg story
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Wolpert is an eminent developmental biologist at University College London. He thinks human brains evolved to become “belief engines.” Toolmaking made us human, and similarly, early hominids felt compelled to find causes for life’s great mysteries, including illness and death. They came to believe in unseen gods and spirits. read more | digg story
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The Galileo spacecraft, although originally launched from Earth, coasted past its home world twice in an effort to gain speed and shorten the duration of its trip to Jupiter. During Galileo’s first Earth flyby in late 1990, it made a silent home movie of our big blue marble rotating by taking images almost every minute [...]
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The rare Amur Leopard is nearly extinct – w/ around 25-34 left. read more | digg story
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