Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 February 2009

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has refused to allow Wingspread Christian Ministries to send prison inmates Bibles, other religious materials and small cash gifts around the holidays. The ministry has sued in federal court.

Federal investigators have joined the search for an Arkansas boy who vanished nearly a week ago, and are asking for the public to come forward with any information related to the case.

A former Top Gun said Sunday he was ordered to shoot down a massive UFO over Norwich, England, 50 years ago.

Aliens may be living among us, but we wouldn't know it because they'd be microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry of Earth-dwelling organisms.

"Mrs. Eidson made it look so easy and fun. Who wouldn't want this job?"

SANTA FE, N.M. — Former astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the moon and once served New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, doesn't believe that humans are causing global warming.

British experts said the breakthrough raises disturbing ethical questions about what makes us human. They also warned it could have damaging psychological consequences, preventing those who take it from learning from their mistakes.

Forensic experts will soon be able to reconstruct facial features and skin just by reading DNA, U.S. scientists said.