Lyuba has become the world's best-preserved woolly mammoth, and an exhibition in Hong Kong has brought the creature out to the public eye! As mentioned in the Huffington Post, this find actually dates back to 2007, when a reindeer herder found the one-month old baby's body---frozen for 42,000 years. The frigid river muck kept the mammoth so well preserved that during its Chicago exhibition in 2010, one observer remarked it "is almost perfectly intact, right down to its baby fat." All moisture is now removed from the body by means of specially designed "dessicative packaging." Another mammoth named Yuka, with strawberry-blonde hair was found recently as well, frozen after a cliff fall, apparently, in Siberia. This one is about 11,000 years old. Its body contains signs of being cut upon by ancient people. If well-preserved sperm can be recovered, it's possible scientists will be able to clone this long-extinct creature. The Russian reindeer herder fou...

Marc is overjoyed: the five seeds germinated for three weeks yielded a sprout noticed Easter Day! For thirty two days, these seeds were planted and kept in the refrigerator. Cold stratification is the process of activating a seed's germination. The process feeds the seeds the information that they have experienced season hibernation; by bringing it into warmth, sprouting occurs quickly. The condensation of the greenhouse gave her much excitement; the plant is taking root. She asked me what to name it; I was in the mood to sing the words "Monster River" like an imitation of "Old Man River" I suppose. This was the ninth day of results after taking the soil into sunlight. But then, a nice surprise. Monster River has two siblings! Since the Rising and Advancing of the Spirit is making Marc Kane so happy, I thought I'd call one "Shang Chi"; the other's called "Zeitgeist" for now. Here they are, noticed today.

This is the second scene preview to my Mystic Order of Defenders pitch coming up this summer at Comic Con. I'll link to the first scene last summer. http://integr8dfix.blogspot.com/2011/06/cold-open-devil-slayer-in-mystic-order.html Scene two Devil-Slayer steps from his swirling Shadow Cloak into a well-kept, modestly-furnished office. His clothing becomes a simple dress shirt and pressed pants, and with a flourish, he snaps the cloak once, revealing a doctor’s coat, which he dons. “Blessed toothache,” he thinks, as he puts his hand to his jaw. “No reason I couldn’t heal this, myself…but there’s just been no time to stop between my secret war…” “and my responsibilities.” He stands in profile beside a plaque, certifying Eric Simon, Psychiatric Doctor. He closes his eyes, focusing his energies inward to cease his pain. “There really is little time for pain…and less so for Eric Simon Payne…that lost soul…” He touches a calendar page, featuring a Matisse flower. “…who would cele...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/google-glasses-parody-project-glass_n_1406274.html Haven't had time to give you a science update as yet; I have, however, started writing prose again! Enjoy the article, if I get to nothing else with this.