Your weekly science dose (as if that's even near enough) each and every Wednesday.
First things first, we've got some earcandy for you. The Vanishing Wildlife CD over at the British Library features the grunts, snuffles, and squeaks of Britain's rarer critters. You can buy it for under a tenner or sample some of the sounds (like the burbling Capercaillie) for free. Next earcandy is for all of you Darwinists feeling under the ID weather. Have a listen and singalong to Ray Fin's Devonian Blues. Cause misery loves company.
But the theme of the past week, without a doubt, was FOSSILS. We couldn't escape them. From swimming rodents to walking fish and the snake that walks on legs it was overkill. Rather it was overburied, crystallized, and then unearthed kill.
Next in the whowouldathunkit department we've got hurricane hunting derring do, courtesy of Earth & Sky radio as well as some camel milk chocolate. There, you'll also meet the new kid on the antibiotic block: a humble compound called AGG01 found in Wallaby milk.
Plus, dare we forget, NASA's super computer black hole simulation
blew us all out of the water and criss-crossed the likes of digg,
del.icio.us, slashdot, Boing Boing, and all the news outlets and back
again - for good reason. There's nothing like the fruit of the biggest
astrophysical calculation ever asked of a NASA super computer to set us
geeks alight. Go judge for yourself.
More of this madness is on show at the Inky Circus.
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