You probably won’t care about this unless you’re raising children. If you are, you know that there is a raging folklore-and-urban-myth debate about how much crankiness can be attributed to teething. “(M)any …symptoms commonly associated with teething — such as high fevers, diarrhea or

vomiting — cannot be blamed on the imminent emergence of a new tooth, according to results of one of

the largest studies of its kind…Furthermore, there was no cluster of signs that could help parents predict when a

tooth was about to emerge. No particular symptom — such as biting, drooling or

gum rubbing — was seen in more than 35% of infants during the teething time.”

I logged with interest the report of the first reported discovery of an extra-solar planet. But: NASA: Suspected Extra-Solar Planet Probably a Star

‘It looked like a planet, the first directly detected outside our solar system, but

NASA researchers and the astronomer who discovered it now believe it is probably just a faraway star.”

It is just too hot to be a planet, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement

released late on Thursday.

The weird space object photographed three years ago by the Hubble Space Telescope is most likely a star

far in the background, with its light dimmed by interstellar dust, so that it looks like it is close to a

double-star system in which it was supposed to be a planet.’

Why this long puff piece on the “nerd warriors” of the NSA?

“This technology is something that could ultimately devour us,” says the Archbishop of York.

Study Says Brain Damage Makes Gulf War Vets Dizzy

: “…reflex tests and electronic brain measurements found that veterans who complained of

bouts of vertigo showed signs of brain-stem damage similar to the damage seen in victims of the 1995

Tokyo subway nerve-gas attack.

‘The study provides further evidence to suggest that these veterans were exposed to chemicals and nerve

agents in the Gulf War,’ the team from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas said in a

statement.” [Reuters]