Sunday Newscape Magazine

Chicago, Illinois - Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate that the animal fed on nuts and/or seeds. These characteristics present the first solid evidence of nut-eating in any dinosaur.

Ann Arbor, Michigan - For the first time, direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say University of Michigan researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red Planet.

University Park, Pennsylvania - Ah, summer! Season of baseball, bike rides, barbecues - and head injuries. There’s nothing like warm weather to get people outside and active, and nothing like activity to fill up an emergency room.

Baltimore, Maryland - Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence* of an important similarity between the behavior of polycrystalline materials - such as metals and ceramics - and glasses.

I just returned from a four day intensive. This workshop, conducted deep in the rich wet woods of British Columbia was touted as life changing. The skeptic in me claimed citizenship to Missouri - "show me!" And I found that the most effective tool to meet that challenge was the mirror the program offered. I was shown in spades!