Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Kate

Kate Bush: "Wuthering Heights"

They are turning on us...
Researchers recently revealed that they had observed monkeys planning future combat. A researcher from Sweden described a daily ritual of a 30-year-old chimpanzee, Santino, that loathes his human visitors at a zoo north of Stockholm and thus begins every morning by roaming his enclosure to collect stones and place them strategically in handy piles for subsequently hurling at irksome visitors.



Here's to you...
Galileo Galilei was honored at a gallery in Florence, Italy, to mark the 400th anniversary of his transformative work, which was widely discredited at the time (as contradicting the Bible) and which subjected him to vicious slanders. The exhibit includes Galileo's only preserved body part: one of his middle fingers.