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News Briefs 14-11-2006

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”)

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