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.

Numbers and eye position

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2810%2900018-7

Okay, I did not completely get the above article, but the hook was that thoughts were made physical, (how interesting is that) and it talks about an experiment where researchers could tell what number (not the exact number, but a category, read it yourself, and help me out here) you were thinking by the direction of your gaze.

Cloudy weather increases university appeal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8585028.stm

It's like scientific guys....

Lawyer Worries Murderer is "Morose"

Quoting from the Telegraph
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6677978/Hertfordshire-man-in-Australian-court-for-murders-of-father-and-sister.html),
a lawyer's comments regarding his client who is charged with the murder of his father and sister, and who has been schizophrenic for years (the client):

Mr Meadley, who has known Waterlow for some years, told reporters he was worried about his client's mental state, saying he looked "a bit drawn" and "a bit morose".

"I'm not very happy about how he looks or how he feels or how he sounds," he said. "I haven't seen him face-to-face and I'll wait until I can get to a place where that can happen."

End quote. Morose? How should a prisoner look, regardless of what he had done or not done, and in this case, I can only assume, though this is weak, the lawyer is trying to point out his client who should look devastated, in looking morose, is showing evidence of his lack of capacity to grasp his situation.

1924 The US Navy Expects contact from Mars

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/prepare-for-contact.html?showComment=1257797899759#c2583093170519561993

Bird bread halts LHC testing

I got this note from cnet.com
November 7, 2009 11:59 AM PST
Bird drops baguette, halts Collider
by Chris Matyszczyk

I am all for discovering the Meaning of Life. And though I was once concerned that you could never trust scientists enough to find it, many wise people persuaded me that we should still try.

However, I am concerned with the news reported by the Guardian that a hungry bird has halted testing on the Large Hadron Collider.

The Collider, positioned on the increasingly sensitive border between France and Switzerland, has been quiet for more than a year after electrical faults and helium leaks.

It is now being tested to prepare it for action and reaction. However, a de-beaked piece of bread that dropped into the machine appears to have caused a power outage.

CERN spokesperson Christine Sutton told the Guardian: "The problem related to the high voltage supply. We get mains voltage from the grid, and there was an interruption in the power supply, just like you might have a power cut at home. The person who went to investigate discovered bread and a bird eating the bread."

I know there will be some who might suggest that the bird was actually French, as the bread has been identified as being of baguette form.

However, shouldn't we be more concerned with the metaphysics of physics?

A Millenium of Art and Architecture

A thousand years of art, a thousand years of architecture, was destroyed in about 15 years in the middle of the 16th century. About two thirds of the history of art, in the world we call English, was destroyed deliberately.