Author Michael Fitzgerald says that Socrates, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein may have had a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. Artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, Lewis Carroll and the poet W.B. Yeats may have had it as well.
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The debate about whether or not the Earth is heating up is over, and scientists are now figuring out what changes will need to be made in the future, due to global warming. Researchers say, “Many of these possible options are highly speculative at present, and some may even appear to be crazy.”
Alex Kirby reports in bbcnews.com on a U.K. conference where engineers discussed possible global warming solutions. One is to “sequester” (store) carbon dioxide on the floor of the oceans. The only problem with this is that an earthquake could release all the stored carbon at one time, causing an environmental catastrophe. Great quantities of methane released from the ocean floor in the past, for unknown reason, caused a major extinction in the past.
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Ross Hamilton has made some truly incredible discoveries about the Great Serpent Mount in Ohio. This ancient Native America earthwork has got a real mystery to reveal. Listen as Whitley finds out the answer. How does the constellation Draco figure into the story, and who, truly, does the serpent represent? Then Linda Howe explores a much more modern mystery: what are those strange, hard-packed soils scientists see in the recent Mars lander photos?
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Data acquired on Mars from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s mini-thermal emission spectrometer shows the light, or spectral, signature of an as-of-yet unidentified mineral that contains bound water in its crystal structure. Minerals such as gypsum and zeolites are possible candidates. If water is now bound inside crystals underground, it once flowed freely on the surface, meaning there’s a large chance that there was once?and maybe still is?life on Mars.
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