Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Theatre Of Cruelty

Lets get this straight - an unknown agency poisons a man with a rare radioactive isotope, a highly dangerous one that probably could only be obtained through a government, smuggles it into Britain within the relatively short lifetime of isotope and uses it in central London; a material that could be attached to some form of dispersant such as a 'dirty bomb' - and this actual act of terrorism, by possibly a foreign power, doesn't cause a widespread terror alert?

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Head Cold

There has been speculation ever since science threw out the God question as to how humans became intelligent - what was it that caused the spark that ignited Prometheus' flame and made us almost overnight some 200,000 years ago change?

I have rather liked the idea that eating some mushrooms by accident opened up the mind to experiences whether real 
(ie just neurons firing away and creating dreams) or spiritual (elves, shamanic quest beings etc). 
But I came across this article about
fossil viruses and their remains in the human genome. And I'm beginning to wonder if all we did 
was catch the right cold.