Tornado Tears Through Alabama Family

On Monday, January 24th, a tornado went through Alabama, leaving behind death and destruction. Five schools in Jefferson County remained closed on Tuesday and one of them may even have to be torn down. The tornado had 150 mile-per-hour winds and affected at least 429 homes, with 211 destroyed and 218 damaged. Two people were killed in the storm, one was 16-year-old Christina Heichelbech and the other was 83-year-old Bobby Sims. Heichelbech's family found her after the storm, on her mattress, about 40 feet from the house. Her father said, "She looked like she was sleeping like a baby. But she wasn't sleeping, she was gone." The Heichelbech family's house was destroyed as well. "I know we have to go on," said Mr. Heichelbech, "but I don't know what we're going to do."

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/01/clay_father_recounts_nightmare.html
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/24/us/alabama-storms/index.html?hpt=us_c2
http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2012/01/alabama_storm_damage_1.html

Researcher Discovers Fossil Collection

On January 17, 2012, Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway University of London, discovered a collection of 314 slides collected by famous evolutionist, Charles Darwin. The slides contained fossils of creatures Darwin had encountered while travelling on the HMS Beagle. The fossils had been lost for 165 years when Falcon-Lang found them in an old cabinet at the British Geological Survey. He described the feeling as a "heart-in-your-mouth sensation," at first disbelieving that what he had discovered actually belonged to Charles Darwin. This recent discovery will provide new information about that time period and how Darwin formulated his theories of descent with modification and natural selection. http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16150933