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There has been yet another mysterious ice fall, this time in Florida, and this time it crushed a car. Given the fact that these incidents are now being recorded with such regularity, it seems only a question of before death or injury results from an a block of ice falling from the sky due to global warming. What the local Fox news channel describes as a “refrigerator-sized chunk of ice,” weighing around 50 pounds, fell out of the sky at about 9 a.m. in a town near Tampa and crushed a parked car. As usual, local FAA officials said theywere “unsure” if the ice had fallen from a plane.
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Climatologists are getting ready to issue a new report that says global warming will be a more gradual process than the researchers who predict sudden climate change say it will be. But that may not be accurate.

Researchers are frantically trying to figure out how severe climate change will become in the future. Ice specialist Lonnie Thompson says the new report does not take into account the dramatic melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. In LiveScience.com, Seth Borenstein quotes him as saying, “I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century.”
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A lost dog is more likely to be reunited with its owner than a lost cat. In one city in Ohio, researchers found that 71% of lost dogs were found, compared to just 53% of lost cats.More than a third of the recovered dogs were found by a call or visit to an animal shelter. On the other hand, more than half of the cats returned on their own, but less than one in 10 dogs did. Maybe this is because owning a dog has been linked with being healthier. For instance, a 1995 study found that dog owners were more likely to be alive one year after a heart attack than non dog owners.
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Women are growing tired of being the ones responsible for birth control and keep hoping that male birth control will soon become a reality. That day may be drawing closer.

Researcher John Herr has discovered new protein within a sperm’s tail that could prove a key target for male contraceptive drugs. He says, “One approach to male contraception is to disable sperm from swimming, and we think [this] may be able to play a role in that process.” The name for the new class of male contraceptives is ?intelligent spermicides,? because they target a specific part of the sperm.
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