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.

Ranging from fun and quirky to classy and romantic, here are a few date options available in the area

The Animal Humane Society says all of the 120 cats removed from a St. Anthony mobile home had to be euthanized. Spokeswoman Deb Balzer says the cats had diseases ranging from feline AIDS and herpes to upper respiratory infections and ringworm. She says the cats, which had been living in a 500-square-foot mobile home, were "very damaged animals."

In order to see things in 3D each eye must see a slightly different picture. This is done in the real world by your eyes being spaced apart so each eye has its own slightly different view. The brain then puts the two pictures together to form one 3D image that has depth to it.