Moonlight sonata at Taj Mahal
Tourists may soon be able to enjoy the Taj Mahal, India's most stunning monument, by moonlight, reports say.

Heat waves set to become 'brutal'
Heat waves in the 21st Century will be more intense, more frequent and longer lasting, US experts report in the journal Science.

CNN's report on the 2004 Olympics

The Official site for the 2004 Olympics

Simultaneous Tropical Storms a Rarity but this is probably better fodder for the next disaster movie.

*sigh* I was wondering when this would happen: Calif. Top Court Annuls San Francisco Gay Marriages.

I still think it's an unfair setup our society has - that unless you are married to someone of the opposite sex, you have limited (and sometimes nonexistent) ways of protecting those you care for in the event of injury or death. For example:

Court's decision today, deprived these families of equal dignity as well as of the many legal protections granted to married couples under California law. Among the families are Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, (pictured) the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage license in San Francisco on February 12, 2004.

"Del is eighty-three years old and I am seventy-nine," said Lyon, . "After being together for more than fifty years, it is a terrible blow to have the rights and protections of marriage taken away from us. At our age, we do not have the luxury of time." One very real consequence of the Court's action is that if one of the women were to die before the other, the surviving partner would have no right to social security or pension benefits and no protection against losing their family home.

It seems to me that, regardless of your moral viewpoints on homosexuality, these kinds of commitments to partnership should not have barriers placed in front of them.

Froguts: Virtual Dissection

Virtual Knee Surgery

Via Slashdot: Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics.

There's an article in Nature about it.

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