Frozen Sea On Mars

The team of researchers, led by John Murray at the Open University, UK, estimates the submerged ice sea is about 800 by 900 kilometres in size and averages 45 metres deep.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7039

Pattern Recognition

Really well written...
The first of William Gibsons usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425192938/qid=1108831280/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-1257897-5459005

Hardwired Leadership

Based on his firsthand experience working with leaders and managers around the world, and on the field research of the Center for Creative Leadership, Pearman brings us a new way of thinking about leadership. No longer the domain of a select few, it is a psychologoical process that can be used by anyone charged with getting people to work together toward a common goal. In Hardwired Leadership, Pearman argues persuasively that everyone has a capacity--the mental wiring--to lead effectively
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0891061169/qid=1108831218/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-1257897-5459005?v=glance&s=books

Study Points To Sixth Sense

Following the Asian tsunami, scientists struggled to explain reports that primitive aboriginal tribesmen had somehow sensed the impending danger in time to join wild animals in a life-saving flight to higher ground. A new theory suggests that the anterior cingulate cortex, described by some scientists as part of the brains "oops" center, may actually function as an early warning system -- one that works at a subconscious level to help us recognize and avoid high-risk situations.
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/7036

Its Official: Probably Life On Mars

"Until it is demonstrated that non-biological processes can produce this, possibly the only way to produce so much methane is life," Dr Formisano told New Scientist magazine. "My conclusion is there must be life in the soil on Mars."
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1416305,00.html