There is an interesting article at ScienceCareers.org, discussing the impact of marriage on scientific success.

I have waited for this one for something like a decade now, so I am going to take any rumours, as we say in Latin where I live, cum grano salis. But I know that I am still going to get terribly excited about this: according to DVD Times a restored version of “Blade Runner: Director’s Cut” (from 1992) should be out in September, followed by a theatrical release of a brand new “Final Cut” next year to celebrate the original film’s 25th anniversary. Then, all three will be packed to a one final DVD release that will come in a nice box set and loads of extras and that will set all this to rest for once and for all.

Yeah, right.

This sounds weird: Tom Stoppard is rumoured to script the next Bond film. Now THAT would be a Bond film even I would go to see in the theatres. Unless, of course, it turns into “James Bond in Love”, or something along those lines…

Engrish.com does it again. I couldn’t stop laughing.

How to test whether our world is made of five dimensions? Look for black holes in the solar system. Apparently, for the Randall-Sundrum braneworld model to work, there ought to be thousands of small black holes in our solar system.

Bat blood? Fungal spores? Dust from Arabia? Algae? A few years back roughly 50 tons of something red fell on India. I remember the news, and I remember how no one had an explanation. What I do not remember, however, is the point when I forgot about the whole issue.

Now Popular Science has run an article on the phenomenon, and it seems that after five years of testing, no one is still certain. But the number one explanation sounds interesting: it came from outer space.