According to a news bit that has been circulating the past few days, the Russian space agency is planning to have a moon base up by 2015, enabling them to start an “industrial-scale” delivery of helium-3.

Known as being somewhat clumsy myself, I can only sympathise with the man who, as reported by ABC, last week destroyed three well-known Qing vases at the British museum when tripping on his shoe lace. I’m still looking for a photo.

A comparative study of data gathered in 1975-1976 and 1998-1999 indicates that although women nowadays have more free time, they are not necessarily able to relax more.

One thing I never know is whether I should play music that fits my mood, or rather put on music that helps me change my mood to whatever I would like it to be at that particular moment. Well, soon there’s going to be a player in the market selecting songs based on your mood (or rather your physical state, but I suppose that’s the same thing in the end).

Once again we have been shown to be irrational in the way we behave. I especially enjoyed the bit where the researcher explains that in political decision-making “[n]one of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged. … Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones.” And I’m sure this doesn’t just apply to politics or religion.

It’s quite surprising how much the shape of the human skull has changed in just seven and a half centuries according to a study written about in this BBC article.