SBS Dateline in Australia covered this a few weeks ago here: http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/related/aid/117/id/600662/n/Waiting-for-Philip.

Worth checking out for the extended interview, plus there's a link to the episode about the John Frum cult.

Meiolania are awesome, but can you please change the image credit to the "Australian Museum" instead of "Australian National Museum"? The skull of one is currently on display there (http://australianmuseum.net.au/Palaeontology-Collection-The-Hole-in-the-head-skull/).

on the other hand, I wouldn't expect a geologist to necessarily know much about molecular biology either, and a gastrointestinal doctor might not know much about the brain. I would hope that a medical doctor would be trained in the medical science of their particular field, and least to be able to understand basic scientific method.

Stuff like this is amazing and a triumph of the scientific process. Next stop would be human clinical trials, but before that we stand on the shoulders of bunnies. So many of them died to better our lives. Respect the bunny. Plus they taste good.

i'd like to see this conducted in other cities & countries

The first synaesthesia I remember is 3 and 4 being green and blue. According to one at work I am salt and pepper on licorice; I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

In case you're asking abdulhamid, you should check out http://www.downrightkenya.org/, a bike ride from Europe to Kenya via Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. A highschool friend of mine (Sarah Wilson) was involved and afaik had no problems from the people or animals on the way.

the reason why scientific studies like this are performed is to clarify the reasons behind such phenomena. Otherwise we could equally attribute it to a longer leg, the position of the sun, or the invisible sky man.

"Drinking Wine Adds 5 Years to Your Life, Wine 2.5 Years"

How many years? I drink lots of wine, so maybe it's 7.5 years for me.

get her running now and she'll be able to kick the crap out of any Olympic sprinter in 10 years.

I'd rather have hands than legs though.

Kosher telephones? I never knew tricking God was so easy. Why don't they just wrap their pork chops in banana skins?

The Australian Museum in Sydney's got one by the same people, a 2-year old Muttaburrasaurus called Winnie. The suit's surprisingly lightweight & durable, and has animatronic blinking eyes and a moving mouth hooked up to a speaker. Goes down a treat during school holidays. Still freaks me out sometimes if I bump into it coming around a corner.

The Australian Museum in Sydney has sleepovers every few months where you watch Night at the Museum and sleep in the dinosaur gallery.

For those in the Sydney area, Wildlife Photographer of the Year will be showing at the Australian Museum from December. Also showing are photos from this year's Up Close and Spineless competition (http://www.amonline.net.au/up_close/).

I think I'll put one on my arse of my wife's name misspelled just to see the reaction.