Thursday, August 13, 2009

A Backward Planet; Our False History

Fake History — the myth that the US was originally founded as a "Christian Nation" — is still being taught in hundreds of schools across America. Talk To Action: Fight Fake History

Newfound planet orbits backward Planets orbit stars in the same di-rection that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward com-pared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called. The star and its planet, WASP-17, are about 1,000 light-years away. More>>

Fish "murder" investigation
Grieving anglers try to discover what — or who — killed a legendary 64 pound carp. "CSI Benson" (WSJ.com)