Links That Make You Go Hmmmm...

• # Milky Way’s monster black hole awoke 300 years ago
  → A black hole slumbering at the centre of our galaxy went into a “feeding frenzy” three centuries ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.

• # Earth’s hum sounds more mysterious than ever
  → Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery.

• # German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper
  → A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.

• # Rowling suing fan over new Potter book
  → Author J.K. Rowling will tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a “Harry Potter” encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights.

• # How biology trumps image as cause of anorexia
  → Scientists now believe genes account for up to 70 per cent of risk of developing the disease.

• # Rare images of caped Elvis revealed
  → Never-before-seen photos have surfaced of Elvis Presley rocking Madison Square Garden in all his jumpsuited glory.

• # Dozens of children removed from polygamist ranch
  → Authorities say they removed 52 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, from a West Texas ranch occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

• # Lovestruck guard helped inmates escape
  → WICHITA, Kansas (AP) — A former prison guard romantically involved with one of the two inmates she helped escape pleaded guilty Friday to a federal firearms charge, telling relatives she now realizes she was used.

• # Clinton, Obama related to Brangelina?
  → For all their insistence on how unlike they are from one another, the three U.S. presidential candidates share some noteworthy family connections, the New England Historic Genealogical Society has found.

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