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Anyone who wonders what makes this a science story has never seen Michael
Jackson Five to reunite, Jermaine says
The Jackson Five are planning to tour again for the first time since 1984, Jermaine Jackson told BBC Radio on Monday.
Jermaine, who appeared in the British version of “Celebrity Big Brother” this year, said he and his brothers, including Michael, could hit the road as soon as next year and that concert dates have been discussed.
“We feel we have to do it one more time. We owe that to the fans and to the public,” Jermaine said in the BBC interview.
The group, which included Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, and later younger brother Randy, stopped touring in the ’80s when Michael and little sister Janet became superstars in their own right. The Jackson Five officially disbanded in 1990.
Since reaching mega-star status, Michael has encounter legal and financial problems. He was acquitted of child molestation charges two years ago. Jermaine told the BBC that Michael's legal problems had delayed reunion plans.
“There's been so much going on, getting over all the hurdles that we all were faced with during Michael's trial,” Jermaine said. “But we are stronger than ever.” He also said he and his brothers were “in the studio at the moment.”
Today’s essay question: Is Tito the Jackson’s “Fredo”? Compare and contrast.
Headline of the day
Computer Glitch Leads To Brawl At Wauwatosa Kmart
2 People Arrested
wisn.com/news
Yeah, we got your blue light special right here pal.
Other headline of the day
Police Dog Bites Football Player in the End Zone (Breitbart)
Oh, go ahead. Fill in your own punch line.
This just in from our "things used to be different" department
Petrified Velvet Worms From 425 Million Years Ago Reveal True Ecology Of Distant Past
ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2007) — University of Leicester Geologist Dr Mark Purnell, with Canadian colleagues, reported, in the journal Geology, a new, exceptionally preserved deposit of fossils in 425 million year old Silurian rocks in Ontario.
The fossils include complete fish (only the second place on Earth where whole fish of this age have been found), various shrimp and worm like creatures, including velvet-worms, which look (in Dr Purnell’s words) “rather like a dozen headless Michelin men dancing a conga.”
The velvet worms were deflated slightly by a little early rotting, but within days of dying these animals had been transformed to the mineral calcium phosphate. This preserved them as beautiful petrified fossils, showing the wonderful detail of their bodies, including coloured stripes.
Dr Purnell commented: “It provides us with our best view of what lived together in such environments 425 million years ago, and our best information for understanding how life on Earth at that time was different to today.
“If people think of a fossil, they will undoubtedly be thinking of something with a hard skeleton or shell of some sort, and it is true that the vast majority of fossil are what in today’s world we call sea shells. But imagine trying to understand the biodiversity and ecology of a submarine seaside ecosystem with only the remains of sea shells to go on.
“All the variety of worms that crawl over and into the sand would be unknown, as would all the shrimpy things that scurry over the surface. We would have only a very partial view of the real biological picture.
“This is what palaeontologists are faced with when they try to reconstruct the history and past ecology of life on Earth, because everything without a shell very quickly, within hours or days, rots away to nothing, leaving no trace that it ever existed.”
Join us tomorrow for another episode of “…and Whitey’s on the moon.” (*with apologies to GSH)
Petrified Velvet Worms..We thought that was the name of Rat
Scabies new band.
What’s passing for science this week or how can I get a lot of press for a study done with a sample the size of a thimble?
According to the BBC, scientists in Taiwan have discovered another downside to smoking: it may increase the risk of baldness for some men.
Male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia, is hereditary and partly caused by male sex hormones.
Researchers found that Asian men - who are less likely to go bald than their Western counterparts - were more likely to lose their hair if they smoked.
The study, of 740 Taiwanese men with an average age of 65, is published in Archives of Dermatology.
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