cool!

Quoted: Is the universe -- correction: "our" universe -- no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds?

Oh i am too familiar with the plate tectonics of Sulawesi (the K-shaped island). Did my oceanography paper on it! Man, Indonesia is just the hub of all kinds of natural disasters: earthquake, tsunami, volcano...they'll probably be hit by a monsoon next.

Quoted: Mount Soputan volcano on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sulawesi island has erupted, throwing columns of ash 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) into the air, an official said on Friday.

Cool! the 2007 Space Odyssey

Quoted: A NASA spacecraft observed lightning strikes at Jupiter's poles as it provided insights into the giant planet's dynamic atmosphere as well as volcanic activity on one of its moons, scientists said on Tuesday.

hah! funny stuff

Quoted: Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.

thank god...this is probably THE top reason that so many brilliant young people are turned off to the idea of doing a Ph.D. Especially for women, taking on average 8.2 years, while still wanting a family, an enjoyable wedded life in the late 20s, is hard to do, while doing a Ph.D. I don't know how my parents did it, considering they both finished before they were 30, and had both me and my brother.

Quoted: For those who attempt it, the doctoral dissertation can loom on the horizon like Everest, gleaming invitingly as a challenge but often turning into a masochistic exercise once the ascent is begun. The average student takes 8.2 years to get a Ph.D.; in education, that figure surpasses 13 years. Fifty percent of students drop out along the way, with dissertations the major stumbling block. At commencement, the typical doctoral holder is 33, an age when peers are well along in their professions, and 12 percent of graduates are saddled with more than $50,000 in debt.

Quoted: They're already predicting, mathematically, what you'll want to watch, what you'll want to wear, and who you'll want to vote for. Obviously, the next step is for computers to read your mind — and that's just what they're working toward at Tufts University in Boston.

Quoted: A "Spider-man" suit allowing wearers to scale vertical walls could one day be a reality, according to a study.

move over Spidy, it's my turn now! i wonder how much a suit like this would cost.

Quoted: European diplomats in four-wheel drive cars have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to a fossilised whale lying for millions of years in the Egyptian desert, a security source said on Sunday.

they better pay up.

Quoted: Archaeologists at the University of Colorado, excavating this summer at a buried Maya village in El Salvador, reported yesterday the discovery of remains of a field of cultivated manioc that grew 1,400 years ago. They said this was the earliest evidence for cultivation of the carbohydrate-rich tuber in the Americas.

wow, that's really cool! what an awesome discovery.