schachterrific!

Leonardo da Vinci may have actually painted the famous Mona Lisa a number of times and in different ways. A recently discovered painting shows ‘naked’ similarities to the da Vinci masterpiece:

I kid you not. For more details, go here.

Here’s a story that’ll give you gas….

High rates of obesity in richer countries cause up to 1bn extra tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year, compared with countries with leaner populations, according to a study that assesses the additional food and fuel requirements of the overweight. The finding is particularly worrying, scientists say, because obesity is on the rise in many rich nations.

“Population fatness has an environmental impact,” said Phil Edwards, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “We’re all being told to stay fit and keep our weight down because it’s good for our health. The important thing is that staying slim is good for your health and for the health of the planet.”

You gotta be freakin’ kidding me! Get a life, people. It amazes me how a whole segmwnt of our society actually derive their income by working to make the entire world feel guilty for living….

A ten year study of 100,000 galaxies now offers compelling proof for the existence of ‘dark matter’. What’s more,

Saying that “the universe we see is really quite structured,” one of the lead researchers explained that the 10-year “census” of galaxies near our own Milky Way offers powerful evidence that this invisible dark matter “seems to hold the galaxies together.”

Stuff like this always makes me wonder if we are all part of something much larger, much grander than our puny little world  and our ant-like existence. Are super-novas an example of a galactic ‘viral’ attack? Are black holes the ‘tumor’ of galaxies? Or is it all much bigger even than that?

Read the details here. Better yet, here.