— If you missed today’s solar eclipse that was visible across much of Asia, tough luck; there won’t be a longer one until 2132! In parts of Asia, today’s eclipse lasted as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds, the longest since July 11th, 1991; it will not be equaled again in this century.
A solar eclipse is a celestial event historically met with a mixture of awe, excitement, and fear; in Hindu mythology, an eclipse is caused when a dragon-demon swallows the sun. More than one soon-to-be-boiled missionary in hack writing has been saved by conjuring up knowledge of an impending eclipse to intimidate a primitive native population…
–A previous post here has looked at Mokele-mbembe, but now M
— Featured on UFO Hunters, the Starchild Skull is an unusually elongated and flat skull further distinguished by extremely shallow eye sockets and a total lack of front sinuses, morphology which cannot be accounted for by any known combination of deformities. The skull appears similar to what one might anticipate from the “Greys,” the classic alien stereotype. UFO afficionados speculate that the skull may be that of a Grey alien/human hybrid.
– – Or so was how MonsterQuest described this episode…but somehow, a jellyfish attack lacks the “shock and awe” factor of say, a shark attack. Still, it is a matter to be reckoned with, as the sting of a box jellyfish can kill in three minutes!
– – The History Channel aired a most intriguing presentation on the evening of May 25th called, The Link. It concerned possibly the oldest and most complete human ancestor, a 47 million year old fossil primate revealing an over 95% complete skeleton
– – If you like your early human species small, you may want to consider Homo floresiensis, a tiny species of extinct humans nicknamed “hobbits” that grew to an adult height of no more than three feet and existed and lived for 
–It is perhaps bias that generally causes us to think that only mammalian species display intelligence and evidence of learned behavior. Certain invertebrates also display intelligence…
–Depression strikes writers, artists, and musicians up to ten times as often as the general population, a tendency often attributed to the creative spark. But according to one study (Paul Verhaegher, Syraccuse U.), it’s the artist’s propensity for rumination that often leads to the blues, not creativity itself.
—NASA has unveiled plans to return a man to the moon by 2018; that’s sooo far away! The last lunar landing took place in 1972 (Apollo 17), long before many of you reading were a gleam in your father’s eye.
–Praise God, the sciences have made a comeback in their acceptance by government! I am thrilled that President Obama is encouraging more open scientific discussion and research without political interference. As Obama well expressed it, “Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values.” Obama has 
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