The Russian space program is getting ready to offer a tourist trip to orbit the Moon. How much's the ticket? 100 million dollars.

Photos from an abandoned castle in Ireland.

Genetically modified crops have been shown to transfer genes to a weed, creating a pesticide-resistant super-weed.

On a program that generates random (bogus) scientific papers. There are also videos of the programmers delivering some papers in a mock seminar.

Last week I visited some pyramids in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Here's the website of a retired carpenter testing out some simple techniques that could have been used to build those. Here's a video about his project of building his own 'Stonehenge' that way.

Life in Canada: check out the tricks used to specify the ingredients of this product in English and French using the least number of words.

Keeping on the subject of tough "sports": an article about the Pakistani version of Polo. It says:

"Some regulations were introduced about five years ago to cut down on fights. Now bashing an opponent in the face or hacking his horse's legs are illegal, said the touch judge, Yaqub Masroof. "But only if it is intentional."
The best players have a strong horse, a wrench-like wrist and a backside of rubber. Still, injuries are common. Legs are broken, skulls cracked, and one player died from a heart attack mid-match."

The Pamplona bull runs of this year start today!

Two of my favourite museums, the conjoined Pitt Rivers and Natural History Museums in Oxford have won a prize as the most 'family friendly' museums in the U.K. They're really worth a visit if you happen to visit Oxford, I think of the Pitt Rivers as Indiana Jones' ware-house, and you'll understand why if you go there.

Human footprints dated 40000 years old were found in Mexico. This strengthens the hypothesis that humans arrived in the Americas much before what most researchers believed. Aqui um artigo mais antigo em português sobre o problema.