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German terrorist Ulrike Meinhof had a brain operation in the 1960s that may have caused her to become one of Europe’s most feared urban killers. German psychiatrist Bernhard Bogerts, who studied her brain for 5 years, says it showed “pathological modifications.” Meinhof committed suicide in 1976, and her brain was removed without the family?s permission. She was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 1974, after a ruling that she was mentally competent to stand trial.
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Marine archaeologist Corey Malcom has found pine cones, tree branches and charred limbs off Key West that are about 8,400 years old. This is especially important because previous estimates suggested that sea levels had risen far less than this in the past 8,400 years, meaning there might be more extensive human remains underwater worldwide than has been previously thought.
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Two Australian scientists say they’ve found evidence of a parallel universe within our own Solar System. When the Near-Shoemaker space probe landed on the Eros asteroid, scientists could see craters where it had been hit by “mirror matter.” Mirror matter is a hypothetical “reflection” of normal matter that may be necessary to keep the Universe in balance. In our world, nature has a left-right symmetry, meaning elementary particles display a preference for left over right, and scientists think a parallel universe must exist where matter works the opposite way.
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While Congress and the administration have avoided signing the Kyoto Treaty or taking action against global warming, states are taking matters into their own hands and have enacted state laws to fight climate change. More than half the states have voluntary or mandatory programs for reducing carbon emissions. Fifteen states have legislation requiring utilities to increase their use of renewable energy sources such as wind power. “The trend is unmistakably towards more states taking an active role in climate change,” says environmentalist Barry G. Rabe.
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