A group of scientists believes they have discovered light from the earliest days of the universe. To find it, they measured all the light coming from a region of space and substracted all the light sources that they know about. The remainder must therefore be light sources which once existed, but don't anymore. At least that's their theory. I'm skeptical. At no point does their formula seem to account for light sources which may exist but that they just don't know about - or even more importantly; light sources which may have varied over the course of visible time.

Seems to me a more accurate number could be obtained by subtracting out any light source which propagates through less than thirteen dimensions. The remainder therefore must come from a light source which preceeded the unification of physics into a space/time continuum.

Had you going there for a minute, didn't I? Relax - everybody knows there are only 11 dimensions...

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Seems that the US is holding secret prisoners in secret prison facilities around the globe. This is a very poorly kept secret. You can find it posted here in these pages if you want to look for it.

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Human Rights Watch has published the names of towns in Europe where prisoners have been held and the identification numbers of aircraft used to transport them -- a tactic that angers many intelligence professionals.

"The exposure of such, either firms or aircraft, just undoes years of cover building and makes America weaker," said Michael Scheuer, a former CIA officer who once led the agency's hunt for al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.
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'Scuse me? We're torturing people in detention facilities scattered across the planet. The leaks have been increasing for years now. Perhaps somebody didn't do a very good job of cover building... (?) America is being made weaker by the mere fact that we're doing all this crap, not because somebody is talking about it.