Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Quantum Leaps Forward in Scientific Research Dept.:

With Saint Patrick's day just around the corner, scientists at Edinburgh University in Scotland have been looking much too hard at Irish beer . . . . "Guinness research proves that beer bubbles really sink" at the Scotsman.com.
Meanwhile, some scientists have been peering hard at one of those things which scientists more traditionally (and soberly) peer hard at--namely the sky. Where they've found a new planet in our Solar system. Maybe. It's tentatively named Sedna.