It's Earth Day, in case you can't tell by our swanky green Earth logo in the header, and that means people will be thinking about Nature (the bitch, not the magazine) and our impact on her.   I didn't say people would be thinking clearly, but they will be thinking.

So instead of shocking and awing you with my dark humor and divine genius, I will instead ask a question; what kind of science could you do if you got sent back to 10,000 BC?

CHICAGO, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Visit Townsend Analytics at TradeTech Europe, April 21-24, 2009, Stand # 66/67

- Societe Generale Corporate Investment Banking, Stand # 48

Townsend Analytics (www.townsendanalytics.com), the leading provider of global multi-broker, cross-asset electronic trading solutions, has added Societe Generale to its international multi-broker network. This strategic arrangement allows clients to access Societe Generale Corporate Investment Banking services (SG CIB) through Townsend Analytics' flagship EMS, RealTick.

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Free-to-view video interview with GAME Group CEO Lisa Morgan on another record year with total sales up by 32% and PBT pre non-recurring costs up 67%.

She also looks ahead to the coming year and a new release schedule which includes the Sims 3, a new Harry Potter, the Beatles Rockband, FIFA 2010 and Call of Duty 6.

The interview and transcript are available now on http://w3.cantos.com/game_group.

It's free to view. All you need to do is register at http://www.cantos.com. Cantos.com, the online financial broadcaster, features in-depth interviews, documentaries and webcasts with senior company executives. If you would like to contact us, please email enquiries@cantos.com or phone +44-207-936-1333.

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- 2008 Annual Report

DOCDATA N.V. today publishes the 2008 Annual Report. The 2008 Financial Statements included in the 2008 Annual Report reconcile with the figures for the 2008 financial year, which DOCDATA N.V. already announced on 19 February 2009.

General Meeting of Shareholders

MELBOURNE, Australia, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Researchers in The Netherlands have achieved outstanding success in blocking the lifecycle of the mosquitoes which transmit malaria.

The trials were conducted by Tullu Bukhari and Bart Knols, mosquito researchers at Wageningen University, on a silicone-based liquid which spreads instantly across standing water. The liquid forms a very thin surface film, impacting on mosquitoes at every stage of their lifecycle.

The research, which will soon be published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, has shown excellent efficacy of the product against the most important Asian and African malaria vectors.

LAS VEGAS, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

FC2 Blog has recently released the Russian version (http://blog.fc2.com/ru/ ) of their blog because of its popularity amongst Russian users. FC2, Inc. ( http://blog.fc2.com/ ) is a large scale web services company who primarily provides services in Japan. FC2 Blog was firstly launched in Japan in October 2004, and as of March 2008 there are over 400,000 active users with over 4.3 billion page views.

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Researchers writing in Nature magazine say the fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini, is a "missing link" in the evolution of the group that today includes seals, sea lions, and the walrus. 

Modern seals, sea lions, and walruses all have flippers—limb adaptations for swimming in water. These adaptations evolved over time, as some terrestrial animals moved to a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Until now, the morphological evidence for this transition from land to water was weak. 


Skeletal illustration of Puijila darwini.  Credit: Mark A. Klingler/Carnegie
Museum of Natural History

Using information from a suite of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old. Objects such as this one are dubbed extended Lyman-Alpha blobs; they are huge bodies of gas that may be precursors to galaxies. This blob was named Himiko for a legendary, mysterious Japanese queen. It stretches for 55 thousand light years, a record for that early point in time. That length is comparable to the radius of the Milky Way's disk. 

An international team of astronomers has used the world's biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see. The study solidifies the link between an active galaxy's gamma-ray emissions and its powerful radio-emitting jets. 

"Now we know for sure that the fastest, most compact, and brightest jets we see with radio telescopes are the ones that are able to kick light up to the highest energies," said Yuri Kovalev, a team member at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

Take that, Taliban.   Western decadence, in the form of caring about beauty and nature, has infested your fundamentalist madness and it's here to stay.

We are talking about Band-i-Amir national park in Afghanistan, which opens today.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided key funding that led to the park's creation, including support of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to conduct preliminary wildlife surveys, identify and delineate the park's boundaries, and work with local communities and the provincial government. WCS also developed the park's management plan, helped the government hire and train local rangers, and provided assistance to the Afghan Government to design the laws enabling the park to be created.