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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: As I contemplate the newest media scandal of the bared breast at the Superbowl halftime show, I find myself with conflicting emotions. I did notice that a lot of the choreography was of the bump-and-grind variety, which didn’t seem appropriate for what is supposed to be a family event. I’ve long thought that NFL cheerleaders ought to put some more clothes on. I wonder if I’m being prudish or if I’m maybe even jealous?

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Cell phones are now thought to be safe, although earlier models were implicated in cases of brain cancer. But new cell phone dangers have turned up. Some cell phone batteries have exploded while the phones were in use. And in rare cases, static electricity from cell phones that ring while people are pumping gas have ignited gasoline fumes and set cell phone users on fire.
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We recently reported a possible terrorist incident in Texas where security guard Robbie House was shot by a Middle Eastern gunman who escaped, after the guard caught him taking photos of a huge ammonia storage tank. Now the FBI says there was no terrorist and the guard must have shot himself?but last year, they named the tank as a possible terrorist target.

The G2Bulletin quotes FBI’s Bob Doguim as saying, “We don’t believe we have any kind of a terrorist threat or that there was any way any kind of a terrorist planning or organization was going on with what occurred [that] night.” But local police think House may have stumbled into a “terrorist reconnaissance operation.”
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The Neanderthals suddenly disappeared 30,000 years ago because they didn’t have enough primitive technology to survive the ice age, while our ancestors had barely enough to make it through. There’s another ice age on the way?will we make it this time?

Douglas Palmer writes in New Scientist that using data from archeological sites, researchers have made a map tracing the movements of both early humans and Neanderthals. It shows that as Europe became covered in ice, Neanderthals and humans both retreated south. Archeologist William Davies says it’s surprising “the extent to which Neanderthals seem to have been deterred by the cold, and retreated as the going got tough.” They weren’t able to make adequate hunting tools in order to get food and fur to make warm clothing.read more