Wow, it'll be interesting to see what India does with its space program...

Quoted: India's space agency is training thousands of young scientists and has planned its first manned space mission in 2015.

Sounds like a really interesting read.

Quoted: Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casual eloquence in The Age of Empathy that wolves are often quite lovely to one another.

Fascinating!

Quoted: A new international study is endeavoring to apply hard science to one of life’s biggest mysteries — its end. “Most people think of death as a moment,” said the project’s founder, Dr. Sam Parnia. “We’ve found it goes on for a period of time.”

My latest blog post ... I'm grumpy.

Quoted: I’m finding that there’s something truly remarkable about food science — the transformations that turn milk into cheese or yogurt, cream into butter, and flour and yeast into bread. That’s the good stuff. But at the end of the day, nobody argues over who gets to do the dishes.

Weird!

Quoted: Walk around Kodinji village in rural India and you'd be forgiven for thinking you have double vision as this community is known as "twin village."

Weird!

Quoted: In 1678 French surgeon Pierre Dionis discovered a leathery, fetus-like object in a cabinet of curiosity -- could it have been the result of a 2-decade pregnancy?

Studies like this leave me speechless ... and not in a good way.

Quoted: A new study shows that if parents play it safe when choosing baby names, they may be doing their offspring a favor: Giving a newborn males odd, girly or strange first names may just help land them in jail. The top “bad boy” name, according to the study: Alec.

Fascinating...

Quoted: Mosquitoes love to feed on mammalian blood, including that of humans. However, in the Galápagos, these troublesome insects have a unique taste for reptilian blood as well and may pose a threat to the giant tortoises, marine iguanas and other wildlife on the island.

Apparently monkeys have this ability too, so don't make one angry.

Quoted: Jennifer Jarett never forgets a face. Not even someone she met for just a moment, not even decades later. Jarett is a “super-recognizer,'' a freshly minted term for an elite group of people who are exceptional at remembering faces.