Very interesting concept. It makes you not worry so much about having your 20-something MPG sedan and certainly helps you decide against the SUV ...

Quoted: It may sound backwards, but that is how two Duke professors suggest we gauge fuel economy.
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Richard Larrick and Jack Soll of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business say the phrase ‘miles per gallon‘ misleads consumers.
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The premise of their study, published recently in the journal Science, is that you save more gas by switching from a 10 to a 15 MPG car than by trading in your 25 MPG ride for, say, a 50 MPG Prius.

Another great possibility for a biofuel source ...

Quoted: With its vast seaweed reservoir, Ireland could become a key player in biofuel production.
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Seaweed has long been investigated as a potential source of bioethanol, which is typically made from crops such as sugar cane and corn, but technological barriers remain to its commercial use.

This is FANTASTIC news! The more that we can learn about the right conditions for sea dragons to reproduce in captivity, the less that "pregnant" individuals will need to be taken from the wild.

Quoted: It's going to be a busy Father's Day for a weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium. For only the third time ever in a U.S. aquarium, one of the endangered creatures is pregnant. But don't look for the expectant mom in the tank, the dads carry the eggs in this family.

Sweet!

Quoted: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of extraterrestrial brothers perhaps more evolved than humans.

This sounds like crap. Determining genetic mutations from stone carvings and statues? Why don't we consider that there was some artistic license taken? Or should we next determine that the anubis carvings were real people that had the mexican wolf boy mutation? Crap.

Quoted: Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.

There's nothing more awesome than the words "colossal squid"! They are broadcasting the examination on a webcam if you are into giant squid dissection ...
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/English/CollectionsAndResearch/CollectionAreas/NaturalEnvironment/Molluscs/ColossalSquid/

Quoted: A colossal squid caught from deep Antarctic waters was defrosted on Wednesday by New Zealand scientists keen to discover more about the little-known giant predator.

The 8 meter long (26 feet) colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), which weighs about 495 kg (1,089 pounds) is the largest and best preserved adult colossal squid to be caught.

Neat ... evolution in action.

Quoted: Italian wall lizards transplanted to a tiny island near Croatia underwent physical changes in 30 generations that normally take millions of years, experts say.

Awesome. darwin-online.org.uk

Quoted: The first draft of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species" is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.

Neat-o.

Quoted: Scientists have found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western Sweden which, at an age of 8,000 years, may be the world's oldest living trees. ...

California's "Methuselah" tree, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, is often cited as the world's oldest living tree with a recorded age of between 4,500 and 5,000 years.