amgumen stone age blacksmiths mastered the use of fire to make tools at Pinnacle Point. Knowing how to use fire may have helped the early humans who left Africa 50,000 to 60,000 years ago to cope with colder conditions in Europe. It may also have given them a big advantage over the resident Neanderthals they encountered. By 35,000 years ago, the Neanderthals, a sub-species of humans whose own origins were in Africa, were mostly extinct

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Mickey Spillane www.wired.com Ancient Whale + Killer Shark = Hypercarnivorous Whale What would you get if you crossed a whale with a shark? Maybe something like Leviathan melvillei , a long-extinct, hypercarnivorous whale with teeth longer than any T. rex ever had

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chestnut501 www.environmentalgraffiti.com When you think you understand the beauty in nature, especially in the magical awe that a rainbow can inspire, then something will appear that still manages to both surprise and delight you in equal measure Just occasionally, the weather conditions will line up perfectly to provide us with a visual feast that we need to be very quick to catch sight of. At times reminding us of the aurora borealis or simple rainbows, these events are neither but a magical experience in their own right These are fire rainbows - the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena.

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perellicippo www.sciencemag.org Genomics: Synthetic Genome Brings New Life to Bacterium Elizabeth Pennisi For 15 years, J. Craig Venter has chased a dream: to build a genome from scratch and use it to make synthetic life. Now, he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, and San Diego, California, say they have realized that dream

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chestnut501 www.environmentalgraffiti.com About 100,000 tons of solid matter punctures our atmosphere every year, the vast majority as minute particles – those ‘shooting stars’ burning up on their way down – thousands land every day scientists now believe that the extinction of the Dinosaurs was due to a cataclysmic meteor strike in the Gulf of Mexico. That object is believed to have been about six miles wide, and so heavy that it created a crater 120 miles across! Scientists estimate that our planet has been struck by about 140 of these large asteroids over five billion years Photo: solar views The last big event was actually at the start of the twentieth century, when a fragment of ice, estimated as weighing 100,000 tons, exploded violently in mid-air over Lake Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908. This released a fireball 2,000 times more powerful than the bomb which flattened Hiroshima, destroying an area of 1,000 sq. kms.

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edharrington Social networking profile of Edward Harrington on MySpace www.myspace.com MySpace   a place for friends Edward M. Harrington www.myspace.com/527828259 About me: Edward M. Harrington is the Principal and Founder of Hawthorne Residential Partners, a division of Hawthorne Companies. With over 35 years of experience, Mr.

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edharrington Social networking profile of Edward M. Harrington on Facebook www.facebook.com Edward M Harrington Edward M. Harrington Greensboro, NC Principal and Founder of Hawthorne Residential Partners Hawthorne’s Objective: To provide best in class service in the apartment industry

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papananook Yay–a found conscience! www.timescolonist.com Chris Porter: “I’m disillusioned with the industry.” Chris Porter, known internationally as a dolphin slave-trader for his lucrative business capturing dolphins in the Solomon Islands and selling them to aquariums in such locations as Dubai and Mexico, says he has had a change of heart and is planning to release his last 17 bottlenose dolphins. The controversial dolphin broker and marine mammal trainer, who trained Tillikum the killer whale when he was at Sealand in Victoria and then became Vancouver Aquarium’s head trainer, has sold 83 dolphins around the world over the last nine years and drawn the fury of animal- rights groups. “To be sure, I have a bad name.

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doodleicious re-mem-ba Mpemba…… www.newscientist.com How the Mpemba effect got its name This peculiar phenomenon has a long history. It was first remarked on by Aristotle in the 4th century BC. “The fact that water has previously been warmed contributes to its freezing quickly; for so it cools sooner,” he wrote

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kkcapricorn news.discovery.com In June of 1996 New Zealand’s Mt. Ruapehu erupted with violence. Its ash cloud blotted out the sun for miles,  climbing almost 30,000 feet into the atmosphere. In all, some 7 million tons of rock and ash were ejected

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