A recent report published by the non-profit, advocacy groups Washington Toxics Coalition and Safer Chemicals Healthy Families stated that 21 out of 22 dollar bills tested contained small concentrations of bisphenol A (BPA). In addition, receipts collected across the country were also tested and found BPA concentrations on 50% (11 out of 22) of them. According to the report, normal handling of the receipts resulted in transfer of BPA from the paper to skin.

Mokele-mbembe - Almost Like Nessie In the Lingala language, Mokele-mbembe literally means, "the one who stops the river". Just like Nessie, the Mokele-mbembe is said to be a living dinosaur of the sauropod kind which dwells in the Republic of Congo in the depths of the Likouala swamp region. Loosely, it is analogously comparable to Nessie, or the Loch Ness Monster of the Scottish Highlands.

This news item, courtesy of Mashable , got my attention because it is oh-so-very-cool.

Patternicity: The tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise. "Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news? A proximate cause is the priming effect, in which our brain and senses are prepared to interpret stimuli according to an expected model

On Saturday, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at the 330 mile wide asteroid, Vesta. It’s the first space probe to orbit a protoplanet in the asteroid belt

It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website. It was, not surprisingly, a pretty basic one — according to CERN: Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT ...