Quote of the week!

[Disembodied]

April 1st: traditionally the one day of the year where people critically evaluate things they read online before accepting them as true.

[Cody]

<sniggers>

[Cody]

Archaeologists investigating human bones excavated from the deserted mediaeval village of Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire have suggested that the villagers burned and mutilated corpses to prevent the dead from rising from their graves to terrorise the living.

[Cody]

A batch of homeopathic remedies have been recalled in the US after it was discovered that they contained real medicine.

[Disembodied]

The secret behind cephalopod intelligence: biscuits

OK, this quote is, I admit, the product of a twitterbot producing Not New Scientist headlines, but it is from this week (otherwise I might have chosen "Tomorrow's technology today: self-driving honey badgers"), and it's frankly no crazier than some of the stuff currently being burped by the media …

[Cody]

Cassini’s chemistry analysis strongly suggests the Enceladean seafloor has hot fluid vents - places that on Earth are known to teem with life.

It'd be very cool if that is the case!

[Smivs]

Perhaps little white shrimps are the dominant life-type in the universe!

[Cody]

Turkey's referendum process was held on an "unlevel playing field", with campaigning restrictions and late procedural changes, monitors say. Opposition events were obstructed and state resources misused, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said.

No surprises there!

[Disembodied]

It takes some balls to announce a general election whilst you're still under investigation for fraud in the last one.

[Cody]

Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed.

<scratches head>

[Smivs]

Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed.

<scratches head>

Itch gets worse....

[Disembodied]

We are not calling for genocide, says the Daily Mail

(Mind you, can you trust anything the Daily Mail says?)

[Cody]

Pear Technology, which produces digital mapping software and services, applied for the pear logo in 2014 and was almost immediately challenged by Apple, which claimed it was confusingly similar to its own apple-with-a-bite-out-of-it silhouette logo.

<scratches head - spits>

[Cody]

France has banned the breeding in captivity of dolphins and killer whales, in a move hailed by campaigners as a major victory.

<applauds> I've always hated dolphinariums - they should all be banned!

[spud42]

just because they are not breeding doesnt mean they still wont have them..... also there is no way that current captive dolphins could be let into the wild.....