Rudy Carrera

Oh, good God, we’re doomed! Well… no. Not quite. This was supposed to have happened Tuesday. We may have dodged a big bullet, so you may want to read up on said ‘solar tsunami’.

Here’s some wonderful news for those who suffer from brain trauma:

The Slavica BioChem division of Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. (HTDS) recently presented results from their hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) chamber study for treatment of traumatic brain injury. The positive results were presented to the 8th World Congress on the Brain Injury in Washington, DC in March, put on by the International Brain Injury Association. The gathering is the largest of its kind in the world. This year’s meeting was the most heavily attended ever, featuring therapists, social workers, medical professionals, psychologists, and researchers from all over the world, a PR Newswire article reported.

Could this 17-meter long ‘super-whale’ be the Leviathan mentioned in the Bible? Scientists believe this whale was agressive, feeding on other whales, unlike the more docile sperm whales of today. Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent of BBC News, reports more on the find here.

Ugh. Instead of funding fashionable causes that don’t kill nearly as many Americans as Alzheimer’s Disease does, the whiz-kids running our government decide it’s better to cut funding as their situation worsens. If reading up on medicine is your bag, you can’t do much better than perusing Jim Pinkerton’s blog, Serious Medicine Strategy. Jim’s a conservative, but he writes in an even-handed common sense style that the extremists on either side of the political spectrum will find a hard time arguing with.

Zahi Hawass, the legendary Egyptian archaeologist, and his team have scored a large find in Egypt. 57 ancient tombs have been unearthed, and look the be nearly 5,000 years old.

Michael Reilly of Discovery.com pushes a theory that the sky may once have been orange rather than blue. The article makes for some interesting reading.

Science never ceases to amaze. Could it be that our energy troubles could be solved with something as simple as combustible ice? Melissa Mahoney at SmartPlanet seems to think so, and you can read her article here.

Mark Steyn pokes a lot of fun at Rajendra Pachauri, a phony posing as a global warming expert who was caught not only peddling climate rubbish but engaging in a hypocrisy about as bad as Al Gore’s.