Calling Mr Cold, Mr Indrid Cold…
- Forty years ago this week, Mothman entered popular mythology (and perhaps reality) – but he’s still a hot topic.
- John Symonds, biographer and literary executor of the Great Beast Aleister Crowley, has passed away.
- Apparently we’ve got a deep-seated fear of aliens. Perhaps due to the fact they like sticking things up your rectum (not that there’s anything wrong with that)…
- Conspiracy theories propel Coast to Coast AM to big ratings.
- Got a few thousand dollars to spare? Why not bid on Alex Grey’s birthday portrait of LSD pioneer Albert Hofmann on eBay?
- Anatomy of a Virgin model. Err, business model, of Virgin Galactic that is. But all the guys out there probably clicked already anyhow…
- $200,000 rare stamp used on postal vote in US mid-terms. Hope that vote counted.
- Backside firework prank backfires. Literally. Ow.
- Scientific American releases this year’s SciAm 50 list.
- Travelling museum exhibition gives the scoop on poop.
- An interview with Doom-and-Quake-creator-turned-rocketeer John Carmack. I’ve worked with Carmack’s rockets for quite some time, as the Carneous-gibs all over The Bad Place will attest to.
- For anyone heading into surgery tomorrow, here’s a list of the ten scariest medical mishaps you might encounter.
- One hundred years of Alzheimer’s.
- Sea urchin genome turns out to be strikingly similar to humans.
- Archaeologists unveil calendar of pre-Colombian cultures.
- And a warning for Grandma Grail not to go skinny-dipping in the local billabong: Australian crocs head upstream.
Quote of the Day:
We mean you no harm. I come from a country much less powerful than yours. My name is Cold. I sleep, breathe and even bleed as you do.
Indrid Cold (from John Keel’s “The Mothman Prophecies”)