SVANTE PAABO, the DNA palaeontologist whose work provided the inspiration for “Jurassic Park”, has produced a nice Christmas present for students of human evolution. He and his colleagues have confirmed, using the creature’s whole genome, that a fossil finger bone which is at least 30,000 years old, and which was found in a cave in the Altai mountains of Siberia, comes from a previously unknown human species. That was all but certain from their previous study of the creature’s mitochondrial DNA (an abundant form of the molecule found in cells’ powerpacks), released in March. The latest analysis, published in Nature on December 23rd, removes any doubt—and adds a tooth to the meagre stock of evidence from the new species that modern science is able to examine.
Headline: End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word
RALEIGH, N.C. — If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she’ll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011.
Check out this video of flames shooting out of a manhole in NYC.
Corner of Bleeker St and Leroy St (West Village) in New York City, about 10:20 pm on January 1, 2010. Emergency crews showed up a few minutes later, and they blocked off the streets.
I found a list of 10 Nerdy things for 2011, when I stumbled on this video from my buddy Nice Peter’s parody of “Fly like a G6″ or whatever that song is called.
You might remember Nice Peter from this song we did a gorilla-style video for.
It always feels good to see an old friend make it to major YouTube stardom.
I saw this posted over at Cynical C, and I had to repost it here. It’s photos that a guy took on the set of “Back to the Future” when he was a security guard.
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