[CSICOP]
Columbia University study on efficacy of prayer revealed to be fraudulent.

[Nature]
Connecting a battery across the front of the head can boost verbal skills, says a team from the US National Institutes of Health.

Someone should tell all the Nanowrimo'ers.

[New York Times]
Evocative article on the re-emergence of inundated canyons from underneath Lake Powell as a result of drought (which some say may be the worst in 500 years).

[The Scientist]
A team of scientists from Australia and the United Kingdom has finally elucidated the strange sex chromosome system of the duck-billed platypus. The first study, the findings of which are published this week in PNAS, demonstrates that the platypus has 10 sex chromosomes, rather than the single pair usually found in mammals.

[Economist.com]
The conquest of complexity in computer technology.