[Lawtan]

Sorry to just info-dump, but...

List of things Lawtan found today:
1) There is a beer made from yeast that was trapped in Amber for 45 million years (Eocene)

2) Jellyfish look to be the oldest animals, based on comparison of modern animal gene sequences. (though Sponges still have a slightly better fossil record)

3) Pando, the oldest still-living tree (colonial), is struggling - either by parasite or by climate. It is located in Utah and is somewhere between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old
(for reference, humans start migrating out of Africa ~110,000 years ago, and make it to the other continents 60,000 to 40,000 years ago...oldest structures are ~20,000, oldest cities 10,000, writing 5,000...)

4) The problem of neutrinos; in models for decay, there are always more neutrinos/antineutrinos calculated than found in experiments. It was believed that it was due to "sterile" neutrinos - ones that by definition would be almost nothing - not affecting much of anything, but explaining where the expected mass went. Dad always called it a "fudge factor" and with recent experiments turning up nothing, he may be right.