The Dallas Morning News has the story Video: 10-ton meteor streaks through the sky in Russia, hits injuring 500.

A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons streaked at supersonic speed over Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured some 500 people and frightened countless more.

The Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement that the meteor over the Chelyabinsk region entered the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered about 18-32 miles above ground.

The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area. The Emergency Ministry says more than 500 people sought treatment after the blasts and that 34 of them were hospitalized.

Two more videos and a slide show are available in The Wall Street Journal article Meteorite Hits Russia, Causing Panic.

So, were the Mayans and their calendar just off by one year?  Actually maybe off by only a couple of months?

The New York Times has the story East Asian Physical Traits Linked to 35,000-Year-Old Mutation.

Gaining a deep insight into human evolution, researchers have identified a mutation in a critical human gene as the source of several distinctive traits that make East Asians different from other races.

The traits — thicker hair shafts, more sweat glands, characteristically identified teeth and smaller breasts — are the result of a gene mutation that occurred about 35,000 years ago, the researchers have concluded.

I was wondering how evolution deniers could handle this story.  The comments on The Los Angeles Times version of this story headlined Tiny mutation may have shaped modern humans, scientists say gives the answer.

 Scott Traficante at 4:10 AM February 15, 2013

Junk science –and paid for on the backs of working Anericans.  It always amusues me that people make wole careers and raise families doing nothing but “researching: junk science.  In other words, find a conclusion, then make a hypothisis fit it.

Not the scientific method we were taight in school.

rphael at 7:41 PM February 14, 2013

So we are to believe that Chinese men prefare small breasts and to accomplish this, they got more sweat glands….  Monkey science?