Nunc Scio

Canada

• A ship, carryiing 300, is stuck in the St. Lawrence River ice.

World

• A California women gives birth to eight children. Nature apparently shocked, violated.
• A New Zealand man allegedly finds US Troop date on a second-hand Mp3 player.
• Israel is employing 8 antelopes in their war on terror.
• Witchdoctors in Tanzania defy a government ban on the sale of Albino parts. Wait, what?
• Texas creationists get kicked to the curb.

Science & Tech

• A truck-mounted laser actually shoots something down. Dr. Evil is delighted.
• A gynandromorphic Cardinal (that means two-coloured).
• New species of carnivorous sea squirt looks kind of like a condom stuffed into a drinking straw. Nature is gross.

Pop Culture

• Neil Gaiman wins the Newberry Medal for The Graveyard Book.
• Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry will be together forever…in space.
• The Guardian lists their top 100 sci-fi and fantasy novels. Pretty comprehensive. 
• Further signs of the apocalypse: Thriller, the musical.
• Microsoft Songsmith destroys music.
• John Carpenter’s The Thing, reenacted entirely with GI Joes. The Eurobeats are an added bonus.
• 1970s sci-fi…muralized.
• Because you asked for it: get ready for 3D porn.