Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes
Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped (technically, “stridulated”) for the same reasons. But Jurassic-age crickets, Archaboilus musicus, were Jurassic shaped, with different forewings—which crickets...
Feb 8, 2012 | SyFy
As every fan and critic knows, with its eons-long podrace and questionable racial caricatures, The Phantom Menace was the weakest of all of George Lucas’ Star Wars movies. But die-hard fans find what joy they can. And one of those fans happens to be an...
Feb 8, 2012 | Forbes
Patrick Stewart, The Graham Norton Show Patrick Stewart and Liam Neeson know that they’ll be forever haunted by their former characters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, respectively. We...
Feb 7, 2012 | Forbes
Image via Guardian.co.uk Today is the 200th birthday of literary hero, Charles Dickens. We all know that Dickens wrote about poverty, injustice, crime with great humor (and at great length). But there are quite a few things we don’t know about the author of A...
Feb 7, 2012 | Forbes
Image via Wikipedia Recently, over 23,000 people signed an online petition to ask the UK government to pardon Alan Turing for homosexuality, considered the crime of “gross indecency” by the Labouchere Amendment of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885....
