Monika’s Pensieve

After all the speculation that I wrote about recently, Apple has announced Jobs is suffering from a hormonal imbalance.
The gossip that was coming through was much more serious, but maybe it truly was just that… gossip…

Apparently, for some time now, scientists have been thinking about building an elevator into space. This would be much more cost effective than rockets.

According to current research, it’s not only the smoke from other people’s cigarettes that is unhealthy, but also smoke that lingers on your clothes, hair, curtains in your room etc.

An 8-year old boy in India specialises in animation for films and has now begun to teach his skills to adults.

I just read this article, which recounts some of the best Bushisms. I laughed so hard that I was in tears, coughing and spluttering.

Not long ago, I posted this - a report about an Afghan father, who is fighting for justice for his teenage daughter, who is a rape victim. It takes a lot of guts to go against the social system like that.
But, alas, not all of the teenage rape stories from Afghanistan are like that. Some [...]

The first physicist to use mathematics to describe and prove what he had discovered was a man called al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham, who was born in what is now Iraq, over a 1000 years ago. Many key European scientists (like Newton and Copernicus) developed ideas that originated with al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.
In fact, amongst many things, he [...]

You can check some star sounds out here. They’re pretty peculiar.

Here’s an article about a guy who does just that.

Yawning is even more contagious than I thought :] I must try this out with my own dog ;)