And all your science I don’t understand. It’s just my job five days a week…
- Dolphins — not as smart as advertised? [via]
- Sleeping pill Ambien shown to awaken persistent vegetative state victims [via]
- “At long last researchers have teleported the information stored in a beam of light into a cloud of atoms…” [via]
- A possible link between child autism and television viewing [via]
- Human species ‘may split in two’:
Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years’ time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. [via]
- Earth’s second moon:
Asteroid 2003 YN107 is looping around our planet once a year.
Measuring only 20 meters across, the asteroid is too small to see with the unaided eye—but it is there.
This news, believe it or not, is seven years old.
“2003 YN107 arrived in 1999,” says Paul Chodas of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at JPL, “and it’s been corkscrewing around Earth ever since.” Because the asteroid is so small and poses no threat, it has attracted little public attention. But Chodas and other experts have been monitoring it. “It’s a very curious object,” he says. [via]
You mean there’s not already a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass subspecies? Years spent working Free Tuesday, aka “Toothless Tuesday” at the Birmingham Zoo has convinced me of this. And let me tell ya – the underclass greatly outnumbers the upper…