Dark winters ‘led to bigger human brains and eyeballs’
This appears to connect with another study I know of; where missionaries visited a village of 100 Inuits and introduced them to reading(the Bible of course). They all developed short sightedness in one year by reading in low light levels. By focusing is low light levels the cells in the eye balls multiplied, expanding the eye ball. The socket was elongated and so when the eye ball grew it became squashed and changed the focal length of the eye. Thus short sightedness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14279729
Brain ‘hears’ voices when reading direct speech
Proof of the inner voice.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-brain-voices-speech.html
Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water
Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html
Southampton engineers fly the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft
The entire structure has been printed, including wings, integral control surfaces and access hatches. It was printed on an EOS EOSINT P730 nylon laser sintering machine, which fabricates plastic or metal objects, building up the item layer by layer. No fasteners were used and all equipment was attached using ‘snap fit’ techniques so that the entire aircraft can be put together without tools in minutes.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-southampton-world-aircraft.html
Earth is getting fatter
The increased bulge is due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
