Two-foot-long hot dog news trawl
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 12:17Aimless archer fish get target practice (why'd it take the keepers this long to think of this?)
Reptile 'first-time' dad at 111
Hen harriers don't kill other rare birds: it's official.
Net address bug worse than feared
Genius Great Dane swallows two-foot-long stick. Brilliance. *pines at video*
Boy 'youngest' to get guide dog
Your pictures: Pets that yawn with you
Society takes YET MORE steps backwards when it comes to women.
Gardener finds rare, valuable truffles
Shakespeare's 'first theatre' found
Iron Maiden in stolen guitar plea
US election gets ugly (what a surprise)...
...comparing someone to Paris Hilton is tough language. What costs me sleep is that she'd get more votes than either of them, both from stupid-yet-legitimately-disaffected young people and from the tv-goggling oh-I-think-I've-heard-that-name-before-so-I'll-vote-for-'em brigade. Think I'm wrong? Ronald sodding Reagan. One-off? No.
One for Ree: Cairo paternity test for King Tut
Now, science!
Elastic electronics see better and more from Science Daily
This is awesome because our eyes work better than flat sensors, and cracking being able to put sensors on a flexible, concave membrane is something several groups have been trying to do.
A new look at how memory and spatial cognition are related... in the brain!!!
This is awewsome because... well, I can't really follow their reasoning here, but it seems they've proved certain areas of the brain aren't important (or as important) for spatial memory as was thought.
Simulated robots learn to move themselves. Odd. And terribly cool.