Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting.

Production version of Skype 3.8 for Windows is now available.

Start downloading it now

The newly released build 3.8.0.115 brings you the following changes:

• change: Updated Extras manager to version 2.0.0.55
• change: Firefox plugin updated to version 2.2.0.80
• change: Internet Explorer plugin updated to version 2.2.0.176
• bugfix: Account creation without a valid email address was not communicated correctly
• bugfix: Skype occasionally crashed on startup when some specific sound cards were set as windows default
• bugfix: Skype did not always go to “Away” and “Not Available” status automatically
• bugfix: After locking the screen, video froze or went blank
• bugfix: When user was not able to connect he was forwarded to wrong webpage
• bugfix: Windows Vista screensaver was not disabled during video call
• bugfix: Any link containing “+” was not clickable in a chat
• bugfix: Skype crashed when set web cookies got damaged
• bugfix: Video resolution did not scale up correctly in some instances
• bugfix API: App2App transfers were disabled when File Transfer was disabled
• All localizations updated

Middle-aged people who are overweight or obese have lower levels of certain brain chemicals that signal good brain health and function, according to a new study using high-tech brain scans.

The findings suggest that excess body fat may speed the brain aging process, which could put people at greater risk of developing age-related diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists discovered a legless lizard, knobby horned toad and mini-woodpecker that have come out of hiding in Brazil, where scientists recently spotted the basket of probable new species, an environmental group said Tuesday.

Here’s the Dwarf Woodpecker:

Below is the legless lizard. Hmm, doesn’t it resemble a SNAKE!?

Stumbled across this Anime Easter Bunny on darciastevenson’s Flickr page. Cool.

Update: Thanks to Roys for tracking down the original artist - khalitzburg at deviantart.com.