Links to strange news today, Friday April 29, 2011

• Russia and Ukraine in bun fight over fairy tales
• US military looks to squid for camouflage tips
• Phoney doctors hand out sedatives then commit burglary
• Museum of swallowed objects
• Robbery suspect escapes while handcuffed to a chair
• Do animals really feel insulted by the use of the word “pet”?
• Fashion colours blamed on early human food gathering
• Atheists want to be army chaplains
• Whirlwind filmed in Glasgow carpark
• Leoprosy cases in southern USA linked to armadillos
• African rock art linked to giant extinct buffaloes
• Curse of the Pharaoh’s DNA.
• Can dogs smell cancer on your breath?
• How meditation might ward off the effects of ageing.
• Reclaiming the lost third of your life via lucid dreaming.
• Eternal sunshine of the snail’s mind: could this new research allow us to erase bad memories?
• Monkeys show advanced memory powers.
• Jeff Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, says it’s possible there are 500 to 750 living sasquatch.
• UFOs: the secret to a long life.
• It’s showtime for antimatter hunters.
• Squids in spaaaaaaaace.
• Mind-controlled prosthetics could be available to paralysed people within a year.
• Bad news for the Dogon: no sign of Sirius C in exoplanet search of the Sirian system.
• Also of interest at Arxiv: gravity-field spacecraft propulsion and the maximum sufficient range of interstellar vessels.
• California may use vibrational energy of driving to generate power. And people thought SUVs were bad economics…
• Do animals have emotions?
• Image of the day: a stormy finale for space shuttle Endeavour.