Animal eyes, particularly the compound eyes of insects, are giving camera designers more inspiration for developing state-of-the-art surveillance.  Compound eyes provide many insects with a sort of 360-degree view.  By mimicking this concept, surveillance systems can be rigged to see in any direction.  Whales are also great models for better cameras.  A fluid system in the whale's eye allows it to move its lens, adjusting focus from near to far, or vice versa.  By creating a camera with one flexible, polymer lens, hydraulics or mechanics could be used to change the focus--or perhaps the magnification.  Unfortunately, far from giving the glory to God, National Geographic attributes the marvels of animal vision to "billions of years" of random evolution.  Real credit goes the one and only Designer.

A 45-year breeding experiment in Russia has resulted in tame foxes.  These cute little guys don't run when you pet them; instead they bark and wag their tails, like dogs.  Russian scientists produced these offspring by selecting foxes that showed signs of non-aggression towards humans and interbreeding them.  They also claim these foxes, like dogs, are much smarter, or exhibit more "social intelligence," than normal foxes.  This is interesting because it seems to indicate that tameness and perhaps temperament are genetic traits.  (Such traits could of course be further influenced by environment or training.)  If so, then, from a creationist standpoint, Genesis 9:2 is referring to a genetic alteration or degradation.  It reads:  "The fear and dread of you [Noah and descendants] will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands."  Wouldn't be bad having a fox for a pet . . .

Drought blamed for the deaths of millions of piñon pine trees in New Mexico.  Global warming blamed for drought.

 The latest beautiful image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a giant mosaic of the Crab Nebula.  If you like putting wallpaper on your computer desktop (why don't they call it deskpaper?) follow my example and download yours here.

Someone's toying with the idea of car-finish paint that can change colors as the temperature changes.  How cool is that?