“All nine members of a panel of outside experts, established by Congress to advise NASA on safety, resigned on Monday, with several citing frustration over their lack of influence.”
“Two federal agencies announced today that they had opened investigations into JetBlue Airways in response to the airline’s admission that it had provided travel records on more than a million passengers to a Pentagon contractor, violating its own privacy rules.”
“The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, report U.S. and Canadian scientists.”
…But some interesting news, too, concerning Stone Age farming at Heathrow, Oetzi’s last battle (DNA testing reveals that the blood on his clothes and body came from at least four other people. Quick, somebody call Grissom at CSI!…), levorotatory amino acids as “bouncers” in the primordial soup, how the birth of fashion “caused” body lice, and mass extinction via methane mega-fart.
