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Crime is often attributed solely to humans, but it turns out our close relatives the chimps are capable of horrible deeds as well. In the past 7 years, at least eight children in Uganda and Tanzania have been snatched and eaten by chimpanzees and another eight have been injured. The children were found with body parts chewed off.

Primate experts blame deforestation and human encroachment on the chimpanzees’ habitat for the aggressive behavior, but they don?t know if they’re defending their territory or looking for something to eat. Chimps were believed to be vegetarians until researcher Jane Goodall discovered they often hunt smaller primates in packs.
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Author Michael Fitzgerald says that Socrates, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein may have had a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. Artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, Lewis Carroll and the poet W.B. Yeats may have had it as well.
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The debate about whether or not the Earth is heating up is over, and scientists are now figuring out what changes will need to be made in the future, due to global warming. Researchers say, “Many of these possible options are highly speculative at present, and some may even appear to be crazy.”

Alex Kirby reports in bbcnews.com on a U.K. conference where engineers discussed possible global warming solutions. One is to “sequester” (store) carbon dioxide on the floor of the oceans. The only problem with this is that an earthquake could release all the stored carbon at one time, causing an environmental catastrophe. Great quantities of methane released from the ocean floor in the past, for unknown reason, caused a major extinction in the past.
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Data acquired on Mars from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s mini-thermal emission spectrometer shows the light, or spectral, signature of an as-of-yet unidentified mineral that contains bound water in its crystal structure. Minerals such as gypsum and zeolites are possible candidates. If water is now bound inside crystals underground, it once flowed freely on the surface, meaning there’s a large chance that there was once?and maybe still is?life on Mars.

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