From the Preface:

And they said one to another: Go to, let us build us a tower, whose
top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name. And the Lord said: Go
to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another’s speech.
Anyone who has taken part in a [...]

Read the full story on the CNN site: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/29/space.shuttle.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Given that there are usually so many delays to launch, it makes you wonder why they set the time at precisel 21h38 EDT. Was 21h37 too early, ten o’clock too late? Who knows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15KgyXBX24

Dance monkeys, dance!

Of course, some of those monkeys would say that we’re not monkeys at all, we’re apes, but aren’t apes just supposedly clever monkeys in denial about the true nature of things?

For more gripping monkey news check out the wisdom of Karl Pilkington.

That’ll be the same Fermilab that’s facing an uncertain future will it?

According to the Chicago Tribune, the huge 4-mile circular Tevatron particle accelerator may be forced to close by 2010 if Congress does not approve construction at Fermilab of a multibillion-dollar, 18-mile-long International Linear Collider.

So this discovery which could, according to the press announcement, change [...]