Cody Taylor

The least surprising news of the day is that David Bowie is not resurrecting his Ziggy Stardust character for this year’s Coachella. A representative for the star told NME.com that he has “no plans to play” the festival this year. There will also be no repeat performances from Daft Punk and Radiohead, at least not this year.

A cool iPhone t-shirts as designed by Leonardo da Vinci. They have a pretty-pretty hand screen-printed poster too.

A 300-year-old medical guide which provides an eye-watering insight into how operations were carried before anaesthetic was invented has been uncovered. The pocket-sized book, which was written by French medical author Joseph Charriere in 1712, was regarded as a vital medical guide for surgeons in the 18th century.

One hundred years ago in a lab at Harvard University, a young zoology student was busily overseeing the breeding of pair after pair of brother and sister mice. The “Mouse Man”, as he was known on campus, was trying to create the first inbred lab animal – a strain of mouse whose genes would be stable and identical.

Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. With a newly launched website, Google is now helping out by supporting applications that distinguish the good ISPs from the bad.

This is what fire looks like in outer space (or zero gravity)

The accompanying map shows party strength by state for 2008, ranging from states that can be considered solidly Democratic (a Democratic advantage in party identification of 10 percentage points or more) to those that can be considered solidly Republican (a Republican advantage in party identification of 10 percentage points or more).