New Moth Species Discovered in England

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8647000/8647558.stm

A small moth, 6mm is the measure of the wingspan, apparently there is a category called micromoths that this one fits in. Likes oak leaves. Brown mainly. And until now science had not noticed this moth.

Is it possible for a fat book of quotations to be boring

Is it possible for a fat book of quotations to be boring? I would not have thought so, but here is an example:

The New International Websters Pocket QuotationThe New International Webster's Pocket Quotations Dictionary of the English Language, New Revised Edition .

I love books of quotations, Bartlett's etc. Love them, and yet, you open to a random page and read

Desire:
We trifle when we set limits to our desire, for nature has set none. Christian Nestell Bovee. I am including this book as an amazing fact.

Galaxy Halos

http://www.onorbit.com/node/2141

The link is to an article about more evidence concerning what are tentatively called galaxy halos.

Trundholm Sun Chariot,

The Trundholm Sun Chariot can be seen at the link I have below. It is two feet long, and dates about 3800 ya. It was found in a Danish bog in pieces over the past 100 years. The picture is what I want to share. An orb which represents the sun is on wheels, and being drawn by a horse.

http://www.archaeology.org/1005/bogbodies/beyond_bodies.html

cometary debris explains continent sized wildfires

http://www.ras.org.uk/
13,000 years ago there is reason to believe, per the article linked above, that not a huge comet, but a cloud of tunguska sized comets in a swarm, as in a big disintergrating comet, hit North America. Apparently there is evidence for a comet entering the inner part of the solar system 20 thousand years ago, and this event would be part of that event. I guess this also explains the 12,300 year ago event which so recently was discussed as leading to the extinction of many north american mammals, this may be a refinement of that, I am not sure.
This idea is supposed to address the issue of the unlikelihood of one huge comet hittng the earth so recently. Now I kind of get the wild fire business, (read the article) but just because something is unlikely, it doesn't sound like a very logical reason to reject it (assuming thee is other evidence). But this afternoon on npr they were interviewing someone who said it was beginning to look like our solar system was NOT so common, because they have now observed so many Jupiter types in other solar systems, where the Jupiter type planet is formed far from the star it orbits, but is drawn closer to the star, which of course would eliminate the inner planets like ours. Anyway the guy was talking about how uncomfortable it would be if it turned out the earth was in a very unusual solar system. What is that uncomfortableness about?

Toads observed to flee earthquake before it happened

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8593000/8593396.stm

Exhausted polar bear rests in scotland

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/countryside/article/448935/Polar+bear+washes+up+on+Scotland%27s+Isle+of+Mull.html

At first I thought this was related to global warming because he had to swim so far, with his normal icy havens gone, but---the article treats it as the opposite, that with colder than normal temperatures he floated further on an ice floe than normally possible. The photo above is on the Isle of Mull. No sense of how far Scotland is from Greenland.