Update on Kennewick Man

Kennewick Man yielded a few tantalizing clues to his past yesterday as the team of scientists studying him wrapped up the first phase of its investigation.

The skull of the skeleton found on the bank of the Columbia River nine years ago shares common characteristics with other “paleo-Indians” of North America, said David Hunt, physical anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institution, who pieced together the skull for the first time. Read more

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Welcome Back Hockey!

“The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players’ Association have reached an agreement in principle on the terms of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement,” says the NHLPA in a statement.

How great is this! I can finally watch the Blues play again. Let’s hope someone buys the team soon.

Scientists Detail Study of Kennewick Man

As you read this, remember that this man probably never existed. The bible says he couldn’t have. Fossils are just put in the earth to test our faith. Oh yes, and Jesus killed the dinosaurs.

Cloistered around padded tables, scientists from around the country have been peering through microscopes and measuring bone fragments trying to unearth the history of an ancient skeleton found along the Columbia River.

Researchers on Sunday offered details of their first comprehensive study of the 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in North America. Read more

Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel

Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It’s just a matter of teleportation.

Thanks to lab experiments, there is growth in the number of “beam me up” believers, but there is an equal amount of disbelief, too.

Over the last few years, however, researchers have successfully teleported beams of light across a laboratory bench. Also, the quantum state of a trapped calcium ion to another calcium ion has been teleported in a controlled way. Read more