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Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:12 pm
by Disembodied
April 1st: traditionally the one day of the year where people critically evaluate things they read online before accepting them as true.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:15 pm
by Cody
<sniggers>

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:36 pm
by 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.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:16 am
by Cody
A batch of homeopathic remedies have been recalled in the US after it was discovered that they contained real medicine.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:50 pm
by 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 …

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 8:18 pm
by 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!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:12 pm
by Smivs
Perhaps little white shrimps are the dominant life-type in the universe!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 1:44 pm
by 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!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:51 pm
by Disembodied
It takes some balls to announce a general election whilst you're still under investigation for fraud in the last one.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:17 pm
by Cody
Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed.
<scratches head>

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:38 pm
by Smivs
Cody wrote: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:17 pm
Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed.
<scratches head>
Itch gets worse....

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:35 pm
by Disembodied
We are not calling for genocide, says the Daily Mail
(Mind you, can you trust anything the Daily Mail says?)

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:34 pm
by 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>

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun May 07, 2017 12:23 pm
by 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!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun May 07, 2017 12:46 pm
by 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.....