random news and links
October 12th, 2006 by 
Abbas Halai
- Sensors will be fitted to pedestrians and in buses as part of a £4.1m project aiming to measure pollution levels across England.
- Indian firms are facing a talent crunch.
- Hydrogen sulphide gas can induce “suspended animation” in mice and may one day help preserve organ function during intensive surgery.
- The founders of The Church of Cognizance, that considers marijuana a sacrament and deity, have stepped down as leaders, saying pending federal criminal charges make it impossible to fulfill their roles.
- A German lawyer hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens.
- Within a Deep Forest is a freeware 2D platform game for Windows, featuring challenging gameplay, beautiful music, an evil doctor, infinite cuteness, and a deep forest.
- Researchers at Goddard and the Merate Observatory, Merate, Italy, studied a type of quasar called a blazar. Blazars are quasars with their particle jets aimed in our direction.
- Russian customs officers say they have discovered a mile long pipeline that was pumping vodka to Latvia.
- Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind.
- With the population soaring past one billion and with a driving need to boost agricultural production, Indians are tapping groundwater faster than nature can replenish it, so fast that they are hitting deposits formed at the time of the dinosaurs.
- Frustrated by their government’s position on the environment/climate change/stem cell research, a group of US scientists have decided to actively promote the election of a president in 2008 who is more receptive to science.
- A team of U.S. scientists says it has used a plant virus to construct a memory device.
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