quote [ The co-founder and keyboard player with the metal pioneers passed away today (July 16) after suffering a pulmonary embolism. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and was surrounded by his family at the London Clinic. ]

quote [ A group of Japanese kids had repeated run-ins with a small, silver UFO, which they managed to not only photograph, but actually capture for a brief time during the summer of 1972. ]

quote [ The technicolor ring you see [here] is actually an artificial microbrain, derived from rat brain cells - just 40 to 60 neurons in total - that is capable of about 12 seconds of short-term memory. ]

quote [ We aren’t finished with Chernobyl... The sarcophagus which encases the damaged nuclear reactor is now cracking open and leaking out lethal doses of radiation. The sarcophagus was only designed for a lifetime of 20 to 30 years. Holes and fissures in the structure now cover 100 square metres, some of which are large enough to drive a car through. ]

quote [ Dongyang people boil eggs in boy’s urine and sell them at 1.50 yuan apiece. It sells like hot piss. ]

quote [ A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday's devastating earthquake. ]

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quote [ Brown-eyed, bearded, furrow faced, and tired: this is how Ötzi the Iceman might have looked, according to the latest reconstruction based on 20 years of research and investigations. ]

quote [ Neanderthals living in what is now Italy may have used feathers as fashion accessories, according to a study on 44,000-year-old bird bones. ]

quote [ ... the interesting variable here, in terms of the recent Arab revolutions, is that this is the first one taking place in an oil producing country. So Gaddafi gets to play an interesting card here ... He can fuck with the world energy market in a major way. ]