article points out that interfering with the immune response triggered by viruses is bad, but it could prevent or treat auto immune diseases triggered by viruses too...
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the impending famine in North Korea.
half a million to two million died in the 1990's but cellphones might change the passivity of the population this time, says strategypage.
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how climate change destroyed Angkor Wat...
"...(scientists) found that the mid- to late 1300s experienced persistently dry conditions that were followed by several years of unusually strong monsoons that may have damaged the city's infrastructure. A shorter but more severe drought in the early 1400s may then have provided the city's death knell." (i.e. before the Siamese conquered it in 1431)
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LATimes has an article on those caucasian mummies in China. Caucasian is the right description, as in Caucus mountains..sythians, parthans, turks, and goths...map link
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if you check the sky, you can see Mercury (near Venus) after sunset, Mars high in the sky, and Jupiter as the morning star.
Alas, the city is west of us, so we can't see the sky in that direction...our best view is south or west...
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Should Europe dig up 50 year old scandals and punish the perpetrators, asks Czech radio.
A common pattern emerges throughout the former Eastern Bloc, especially in the first years after World War II, of crimes on a huge scale, whose perpetrators, almost without exception, have never been brought to justice even twenty years after the fall of communism....
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the Legend of the Shoe Tree
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