gene club

it is now thought that most non africans have more extinct caveman dna then thought before.the modern human migrated from africa and then interbred with neanderthals and denisovians around 4,000 years ago.a larger trace of  the denisovian gene which gave papuva new guineans better sense of smell ,tibetans adapt to high altitude and neanerthals -tougher skin and help adapt to enviroments.

possible new blood test for concusion

scientists believe that a acidic protein released when concusion is suferedmay help getting a new blood test.it stays in the bloodstream for a week so it could help children fron not needing radation exposing scans.

Living on the moon

I for one  was excited to  see  an  article in the  paper  about humans living on the moon  as i believe this  will  happen. A group of  nasa scientists and silicon  valley  billionaires  wish to  set up a  base at peary  crater at the  lunars north  pole .As this is the  were the  moon  gets  the  maximum sunlight  to  produce  solar  energy. This  project will  cost  6,5 billion  and will  require up to  ten people

Rant issue 3

Who invented  woodchip  wallpaper needs to be  put on  a firing  line  as a bit of a barstad to remove as a lot of elbow  grease is needed, when  some people  get  a cold thier make out its the end of tbe world as we know it,why is it that if you  have a radio you can get the next  county ..Cornwall. .clearly  but not own radio  devon,my wife has very  old fashioned  ways about  peoples choices, why do baddies in soaps get away  with  everything and then people  think can do in resl life,i know more about  American  political parties  tgen own as always ontv,radio and  not even  vote  thier president  yet please  i am British and  proud, i hate it when my computer  plays up or hacked  aa really  pisses me off ,yes i like a rant as helping  with  my parnoid  thoughts

April Fools' Day: Origin and History

April Fools' Day, sometimes called All Fools' Day, is one of the most light-hearted days of the year. Its origins are uncertain. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar. New Year's Day Moves

Ancient cultures, including those of the Romans and Hindus, celebrated New Year's Day on or around April 1. It closely follows the vernal equinox (March 20th or March 21st.) In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new year.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar. The new calendar called for New Year's Day to be celebrated Jan. 1. That year, France adopted the reformed calendar and shifted New Year's day to Jan. 1. According to a popular explanation, many people either refused to accept the new date, or did not learn about it, and continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April 1. Other people began to make fun of these traditionalists, sending them on "fool's errands" or trying to trick them into believing something false. Eventually, the practice spread throughout Europe.

Problems With This Explanation

There are at least two difficulties with this explanation. The first is that it doesn't fully account for the spread of April Fools' Day to other European countries. The Gregorian calendar was not adopted by England until 1752, for example, but April Fools' Day was already well established there by that point. The second is that we have no direct historical evidence for this explanation, only conjecture, and that conjecture appears to have been made more recently.

Constantine and Kugel

Another explanation of the origins of April Fools' Day was provided by Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University. He explained that the practice began during the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters and fools told the Roman emperor that they could do a better job of running the empire. Constantine, amused, allowed a jester named Kugel to be king for one day. Kugel passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day, and the custom became an annual event.

"In a way," explained Prof. Boskin, "it was a very serious day. In those times fools were really wise men. It was the role of jesters to put things in perspective with humor."

This explanation was brought to the public's attention in an Associated Press article printed by many newspapers in 1983. There was only one catch: Boskin made the whole thing up. It took a couple of weeks for the AP to realize that they'd been victims of an April Fools' joke themselves.=READ MORE=http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aprilfools1.html

Lasers could 'cloak Earth from aliens'

We should shine lasers into space if we want to hide our presence from aliens, two US-based astronomers suggest.

The beams could compensate for the dip in light the Earth creates when it passes in front of the Sun, as viewed from far-off worlds, they contend.

A number of researchers have questioned the wisdom of advertising our existence to the galaxy.

They fear that if aliens did visit us they might not be very friendly, and could introduce disease.

The analogy is Europeans arriving in the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. The contact wrought havoc in the health of indigenous populations.

David Kipping and Alex Teachey from Columbia University in New York say that if we are fearful of a similar outcome from an alien encounter then lasers offer a solution.

The team has calculated what would be required to cloak the Earth and published the concept in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.read more on bbc link=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35938886

rant issue 2

The government's living wage £50 more an hour wow not a lot to live on at present I get DLA but if I was to make a reclaim I will get Pip which would take longer to get and I may not qualify for anyway in life ,there a lot of social in Justice mainly in Bideford where are young lad was had  his hands tied up as  was going to tie his  legs up on the way home from school . And then the tormentors wanted  to throw him  into the road when the parents were informed  their said the kid should  just Grow Up, you can  now find me me  in Gozo weekly back as a cartoonist I hope you like them not just  me    in Belgium we had the horror of terrorism again I don't understand these people I never will but I think it's important to keep living your normal life As  it is only way to stand up to to them ,TV this weekend has been a load of rubbish as usual i went online to do my blog also I'm going to try to deal with my paranoid thoughts through self help I don't go to to the medication route at the moment as I see it I can see where that leads so hope you read these rants and not just me thank you from Mark aka  ghostman