A fascinating BBC report:
“The earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles has been found in Canada“
- referring to 315 million year old reptile tracks found in Canada (Full Article). They add
“The origin of reptiles, in particular the appearance of eggs protected by a shell, allowed four-legged animals to avoid having to go back into water [...]
Filed under: Science on October 17th, 2007 | Comments Off
Betraying my current fascination with online video sites once more, this documentary on Stage6 entitled The Engineering of Consent leaps out at me. Having just finished a short but fascinating account by Noam Chomsky of how 1930’s American politicians devised means of ensuring the population would do as they were required to do by Government, [...]
Filed under: Science on October 14th, 2007 | Comments Off
Browsing the Stage6 video site I stumbled across a video narrated by Carl Sagan, entitled Pale Blue Dot: Wanderers, Episode 1. It’s actually been put together by a chap in Japan, using digitised copies of an audio book, in an attempt to make a series that, alas, Carl never got to make, in the style [...]
Filed under: Science on October 13th, 2007 | Comments Off
You just have to see this Youtube Dancing-Morlock video!
(Or if dancing Morlocks aren’t your thing, perhaps a Singing Mexican in Damascus?)
Oh and while I’m on the subject of mad things on the web, did you know there’s a website called Celebheights.com? Wonder what it’s about, hmm.
And I have
ALWAYS
wanted to do something like this [...]
Filed under: Humour on October 6th, 2007 | Comments Off
