Moose On The Loose In Scotland, Wolves To Follow?
Paul Lister is a British businessman. Last year he spent 16,000 pounds ($31,630) buying a pair of moose in Sweden and flying them to Scotland in a chartered plane. His aim is both to restore a section of the deforested and depopulated highlands to its former glory by releasing once native species into his vast Alladale wilderness reserve, and to turn a profit by charging people to visit.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48628/story.htm

Materials engineers create perfect light “sponge”
A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke Univ. has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it—to a scientific standard of perfection—they report in the latest edition of Physical Review Letters.
http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000100&ISSUE=0805&RELTYPE=MS&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=NF&CommonCount=0

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Man teaches bird to fly
A bird lover has taught an orphaned baby heron to fly by flapping his arms and pretending to try to take off.


Free street games at NYC's Come Out and Play Festival this weekend!
25 brand new street games are premiering at the annual Come Out and Play Festival in New York City this weekend (June 6 - 8 2008). Everything is open to the public and 100% free to play!
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/03/free-street-games-at.html

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The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care)
(...) All Katherine P. Rankin did was use an M.R.I. to find the place in the brain where the ability to detect sarcasm resides. (...) perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking. Those who lose the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias afflicting the patients in Dr. Rankin's study, just do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, "Nice weather we're having."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Pandas get hugs to overcome trauma
After the chinese earthquake, Pandas are getting psychological support from their keepers in the zoo to recover from the trauma.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/jun/03/wildlife.chinaearthquake?picture=334546261

4 christians are arrested for praying at home in Argelia
Each one got from 2 to 6 months in prison and had to pay a fine, because they declared to be Christians in front of a judge.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Condenados/argelinos/rezar/casa/particular/elpepuint/20080604elpepiint_13/Tes (in spanish)

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http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080602/full/news.2008.868.html
“Devolution” may make humans walk on all fours.
A 2006 British television documentary showed a Turkish quadrupedal family.
Today, at the European Society of Human Genetics meeting in Barcelona, Spain, researchers presented the isolation of a gene that is affected in some quadrupedal families.

http://www.livescience.com/health/080603-bottle-emotions.html
You better be silent
We all know the assumption in popular culture, and even in clinical practice, that people need to talk in order to overcome a collective trauma.
Now researchers say exactly the opposite: people who chose not to express were better off than people who did choose to express.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html?ref=health
Nice weather we’re having”.
Perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking.
Through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias patients just do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, “Nice weather we’re having.”