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A couple of years ago, anthropologists reported finding the skulls of small, hobbit-sized inhabitants of an island in Indonesia. Now it turns out that may have been the victims of a genetic disease.

Steve Connor writes in the Independent that new studies reveal that this race, which lived on a remote island in Indonesia around 18,000 years ago, probably had microcephaly, which is a genetic condition that leads to a small brain. If these people were isolated on a remote island, they would have interbred and passed around any defective genes in the population.
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I think the reason that UFO science never seems get anywhere, or manages to convince anyone (who isn’t already convinced) that the visitors are real, is because these so- called “researchers” are, for the most part, a bunch of big babies. They would rather scrabble with each other in the sandbox than do any real science.

When my son was a baby, there would be periods of time when he would cry, seemingly for no reason. This baffled me, because his pants were dry and he was well-fed. I eventually realized that what he wanted was attention. After a few years, he grew up and learned how to amuse himself.
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Spring is tornado season in the US and we while tornadoes can occur almost anywhere in the world, we have more of them than anyplace else. There are about 1,200 tornadoes here every year. So far, in 2006, there have been almost 500. Like all extreme weather patterns, including hurricanes and flooding, an increase in tornado activity can be an indication of global warming.

LiveScience.com reports that this is the fastest start for the tornado season since 1999. In 2005, fewer than 100 tornadoes had formed by April. In 2005, June was the busiest tornado month?we?ll have to see if that repeats this year.
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In an incredible departure from Einstein’s theories, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower, and now researchers have found a way to make it go BACKWARDS?and when it does, it goes FASTER than usual. This research could be a window into making time travel a reality.

Researcher Robert Boyd sent a pulse of light through an optical fiber, and before it even entered the fiber, it was exiting at the other end. Boyd was able to actually see that the pulse inside the fiber was moving backward.
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