A ten-year-old African Spurred Tortoise named Arava was given a set of wheels for her two paralyzed hind legs. Zookeepers at Jerusalem's Bibilical Zoo allow the tortoise to use the wheels for a few hours each day. The skateboard wheels help Arava move around her habitat normally and she has even started to mate. Reuters does say she has also received some extra unwanted attention from rival males. Fox News also has a story about Arava. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

Magpies apparently have the ability to see recognize themselves in a mirror just like people can. Scientists basically drove the poor birds crazy by placing colored dot stickers on them. When the birds looked in the mirror they noticed the colored dots and tried to remove them. The birds did not notice black dots in the mirror because these dots blended in with the color of their feathers. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

Cryptomundo reports that the sheriff?s department in DeWitt County, Texas, recorded a "mystery canid" running along the road. The canid looks very similar to an animal discovered in Cuero, Texas last year that a woman claimed was a legendary Chupacabra. DNA evidence found this canid to be a coyote but the conspiracy about the creature continues. The video of the running canid is below. You can also see the video here. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, August 25, 2008 Source: Canadian Space Agency CSA Releases 9 RFPs The CSA just released the following 9 RFP's all of which are available at http://www. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, August 25, 2008 Source: Arianespace Arianespace to launch Koreasat 6 Korean Telecom Corporation (KT Corporation) has chosen Arianespace to launch its next communications satellite, Koreasat 6. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, August 22, 2008 Source: INMARSAT Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton to Launch S-Band Satellite for Europe RESTON, Va., Aug. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Source: International Launch Services ILS Proton Successfully Launches INMARSAT-4 F3 Satellite BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, Aug. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Source: Oceaneering Oceaneering Announces Intention to Resubmit Constellation Space Suit Contract Proposal Oceaneering International, Inc. Read more…

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Source: Dryden Flight Research Center NASA DFRC Solicitation: Membership to BYU CHREC Synopsis - Aug 21, 2008 General Information Solicitation Number: 4200266057-1 Posted Date: Aug 21, 2008 FedBizOpps Posted Date: Aug 21, 2008 Original... Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Source: NCsoft Texas Music Legend Joe Ely Sends His DNA and Nobel Laureate Insights into Space Planet Make-Over's Musical Director Stephen Bruton Adds Joe Ely and Film "Nobelity" to NCsoft's Operation Immortality to Reverse Global Warming ... Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, August 21, 2008 Source: Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Awarded Contract for IS-18 Commercial Communications Satellite by Intelsat New Geosynchronous Orbit Satellite to be the Eighth Orbital-Built Spacecraft in Intelsat's Fleet Orbital Sciences... Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Source: Hermes Spacecraft Hermes Spacecraft Looking to Bring Personal Space Travel to the Masses 'Shuttle for Everyone' Prototype on Display at Intel Developer Forum Like many Americans coming of age during the time of the Apollo missions,... Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Source: University of Idaho Cracking the Question of Extraterrestrial Life MOSCOW, Idaho - With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing... Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, August 25, 2008 Source: European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Source: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long- standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field... Read more…

AP - For capuchin monkeys, it seems, it's better to both give and receive, than just to receive. At least, that's what researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta have found. Read more…

AP - The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad. Read more…

AP - Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Caribbean. Its track pointed toward the U.S. Gulf coast, including Louisana where Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc three years ago. Read more…

AFP - A giant panda cub has been born at a Japanese zoo, the first to be successfully bred in Japan through artificial insemination in two decades, officials said Wednesday. Read more…

AP - An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America. Scientists say the find holds the promise of many discoveries to come. Read more…

AFP - World oil prices rallied Wednesday on the back of concerns that Hurricane Gustav may head for the Gulf of Mexico where many US energy installations are located, analysts said. Read more…

Bloomberg - Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican Party released a draft of its 2008 platform that differs from candidate John McCain on issues including immigration, stem-cell research and climate change, while endorsing his ideas for economic growth and free trade. Read more…

As I read Dr. John Jay Harper's new article for UFO Digest entitled The Art of WWIII: The Unifying Archetypes of Apocalypse, I felt a sense of deja vu all over again. I looked into his synchronistic, Jungian, collective unconscious eyes and saw myself thirty years younger looking back wild eyed yet startlingly perplexed like a deer caught in the headlights. Read more…

In this second article in the Mekeer series, extraterrestrial specialist Marc Fiszman introduces the aliens' plan to rescue humanity from self-destruction. I walked to the side of Kodahr, the two of us flanked by two of his assistants. They were dressed as he, in soft, hooded robes, though in blue rather than the shimmering white which flowed down and about the tall Prophet's body. The assistants were around my height, average for a human, a foot or so shorter than the man who led us. The hoods kept all of their faces cloaked in shadows, or even something more, for try as I might, it was impossible to see anything but pure blackness inside. Read more…

Brett Allen is a UFO researcher and a former PYX106 disc jockey in Albany, New York- who had a number one show in Albany market. He thought we might find these (photos) of interest. Brett took them over the Great Sacandaga Lake in upstate NY- August 12, 2007 and May 2008. Read more…