http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-cave-p...180821995.html

Spanish cave paintings older than French.

Immune System May Protect Against Alzheimer's
 

http://news.yahoo.com/archaeologist-...134339160.html

Oldest known rock art in Australia.

http://news.yahoo.com/moons-peculiar...101210873.html

Moons peculiar dust.

I'm seeing a theme to your current posts Corkey! I love art though my talents lie with stick figures lol

http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/...pad-challenge/

Be interesting to see how successful this is against the ipad. Hope you clean your nails Corkey :D

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-moon-crat...170854680.html

Polar moon craters may contain ice.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...201621035.html

Mass grave of prehistoric wombats found.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...usaolp00000009

7,000 y/o DNA oldest to date of Human genomes discovered in Spain.

Higgs boson (so-called 'God' particle) may have been found
 

So this Wednesday, CERN is holding a big to-do where it is expected they will announce that the long sought Higgs boson (unfortunately named the 'God' particle in the popular press) has been found because of work done by the team at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).

If it's true (and all the signs point toward that being the case) this would be the biggest piece of physics news in the best part of 100 years.

The Standard Model, which is the prevailing working explanation for why the particles exist and have the masses (energies) they do has had one piece of information missing: why do particles have mass at all? The Higgs boson (named after Peter Higgs who first proposed the existence of the particle four decades ago) is purported to be the particle that gives other particles their mass.

This is why it is called the 'God particle'. It has absolutely nothing to do with theism, it doesn't prove or disprove God, all it does is explain why particles have mass but that 'all' is a BIG deal because without that mass particles would never bind together to form atoms. No atoms, no anything else.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...Wednesday.html
Cheers
Aj

Here is an outstanding presentation on what the Higgs boson is and why it's a such a big deal:

http://vimeo.com/41038445

Cheers
Aj

It's Higgs!!!
 

So it appears that both the ATLAS and CMS experiments found a particle that has the properties hypothesized for the Higgs Boson! Well, that would just about wrap up the Nobel prize in Physics this year (or possibly next).

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-lhc-discovery

Cheers
Aj

http://news.yahoo.com/underwater-eru...155619656.html

Underwater eruption off Canary Islands helps scientists with climate change.

And to add some funny to it: http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/tag/hugs/

http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/...03-07-0058.png

http://news.yahoo.com/planet-found-s...news-tech.html

Planet found 33 light years from Earth.

http://io9.com/5927784/new-evidence-...-certain-foods

I don't know why this is surprising. To me it is common sense. Neanderthals using medicinal plants.

Hi all,

I don't know how to post a Vimeo video, so here is a link to a page where I saw an eff'n amazing bit of time-lapse footage from the international space station.

3 minutes well spent.

:balloon:

http://www.eisp.org/
They're digging up Easter Island. The heads are attached to bodies!

Why can't we call it the "God daymn! particle" like it's supposed to be called. :poc-bleah:

Damn publishers! "The Goddamn Particle" would have been the best science book title *ever*!

cheers
Aj

Wow, that is cool. So freakin' huge, those statues.

I wonder if the Olmec heads in Mexico are actually statues buried up to their necks!

http://news.yahoo.com/impossible-sta...122640670.html

"Impossible" stellar dance.

http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/love-...9#.UBIruaD-2Sr
Men have their highest amount of estrogen right after orgasm and women have their highest amount of testosterone after orgasm (except while pregnant).

http://news.yahoo.com/oldest-poison-...190830216.html

Oldest poison pushes back ancient civilization 20 thousand years.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo-reveals-...185911409.html


Tongue in cheek "But there's no evidence of global warming"

First images from Mars...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...47023620_n.jpg

...y'all saw this coming a mile away **laughing** YAY for NASA!!

You must have George Takai on your FB LOL

**laughing* I need to go friend him...

Fruit flies on Meth die of anorexia .......
 

As will the researcher who seems to experimenting on himself :|

http://www.sciencespacerobots.com/blog/80520123

FDA Bans BPA from Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups

Posted by Lisa Carey
On July 17, 2012 the Food and Drug Administration officially put an end to the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in the manufacturing of baby bottles and children’s sippy cups. The FDA said that the decision was in response to a request by the American Chemistry Council that BPA be phased out of these products in order to boost customer confidence.
The FDA says that many manufacturers have already stopped using the chemical in baby bottles and sippy cups. The response to the American Chemistry Council makes the ban somewhat official. The FDA has originally declared BPA safe in 2008, but by 2010 had started expressing possible health risks associated with the use of the chemical. Specifically, the impact that BPA has on the brain and reproductive system of infants, babies and young children. Earlier this year the FDA’s stance was that BPA was safe. The agency denied a petition from Natural Resources Defense Council that called for a ban on the use of BPA in all food containers, not just baby bottles and sippy cups.
Experts are still divided on whether BPA is a health risk to humans. Some studies claim that the levels of BPA are safe while others claim that BPA plays a part in obesity issues, disruption of estrogen levels, and neurological issues. Tufts University Medical School concluded that BPA may increase cancer risk.
The FDA’s ban on BPA usage in baby bottles and sippy cups is considered a step in the right direction. According to the Bennington Banner, “ The chemical industry’s request may help curb years of negative publicity from consumer groups and head off tougher laws that would ban BPA from other types of packaging because of health worries. Legislation introduced by some members of Congress would ban BPA nationwide in all canned food, water bottles and food containers. Chemical makers maintain that the plastic-hardening chemical is safe for all food and drink uses.”
Dr. Sarah Janssen, senior scientist in the public health program at Natural Resources Defense Council, said of the FDA’s ban, “This is only a baby step in the fight to eradicate BPA. To truly protect the public, FDA needs to ban BPA from all food packaging. This half-hearted action –taken only after consumers shifted away from BPA in children’s products– is inadequate. FDA continues to doge the bigger questions of BPA’s safety.”
Our children are a little safer but BPA is still in a variety of other products that adults use every day.
In related news about BPA . . .
Canada declares BPA as toxic: What happens next?
The Kid-Safe Chemical Act
Guest post by Linda St. Cyr
Linda St.Cyr is a freelance writer, blogger, and columnist. She covers a wide variety of topics from food to celebrity gossip. Read her work at Ecorazzi, Yahoo! Contributor Network, or The Hungry Kitchen.


http://www.greenjoyment.com/fda-bans...and-sippy-cups

http://news.yahoo.com/unusually-stro...135552493.html

This winter is going to be really weird, if not non existent. Or we're gonna get slammed. Either way WTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/earthquake-rec...135556030.html

I really do worry about you folks in the PNW.

Since most humans have three separate types of cones (making us trichromats), a total of (100)3 = 1 million colors are discernable to a typical human. Some humans are born without one of the three types of cones, creating a condition known as color blindness; color blind (dichromat) humans can only see (100)2 = 10,000 distinct colors. On the other hand, some humans have four distinct types of cones, making them tetrachromats and allowing them to distinguish up to (100)4 = 100 million separate colors!

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...-in-a-rainbow/

BY FAR, the coolest thing I've seen in days! I enjoyed this waaaay more than the Mars rover landing.
http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/...space-station/

poopmobile!