Jameske’s out till next week, so you’re stuck with me…
- Author looks at Abraham Lincoln’s links to spiritualism. Susan B. Martinez’s book The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln is available from Amazon US and UK. Susan also wrote a fascinating article for Darklore Volume 1, “The Authors are in Eternity”.
- Britain’s “Atlantis” to be revealed with high-tech underwater cameras.
- Ancient tomb art found in path of Irish highway.
- Does a great circle align the ancient wonders of the world?
- Remains of 12,000 Native Americans are stored in the University of California’s gym basement.
- Seacoastonline.com reviews Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited (Amazon US and UK). Anomalist Books has been tracking some of the good publicity they have received for the anthology.
- Ghost Hunters creators turn their attention to UFOs.
- James Randi calls on the media to ask Uri Geller a few straight questions (video). Randi and Geller should just settle it all in a wrestling match. My money would be on Geller (because of his extra reach, not because he might bend Randi with his mind).
- Ray Stanford tracks dinosaurs…and UFOs. Synchronistically, I was reading about Ray Stanford just last night, mentioned in an old book I’m hoping to rerelease.
- Hayden Christensen to play Case in movie adaptation of Neuromancer? I hear alarm bells..
- In New Zealand, the hunt is on for the ‘extinct’ Moa, after new evidence comes to light.
- U.S. scientists tackle evolution deniers.
- Rules of attraction take a strange twist.
- Have you ever seen a city map…charted on emotions?
- Is climate change making us depressed? Thankfully, the dry spell has been replaced by a wet January.
- Hot cyclones churn at both ends of Saturn.
- Massive cloud to strike the Milky Way, say scientists. Don’t stress on getting some batteries and tinned food prepared – you have just under 40 million years to prepare yourself…
- Get your head around these fictional radio spaces (h/t Posthuman Blues).
Quote of the Day:
There is a danger for science in encouraging self-appointed protectors who engage in polemical campaigns that distort and misrepresent serious research efforts. Such campaigns are not only counterproductive, they threaten to corrupt the spirit and function of science and raise doubts about its credibility. The distorted history, logical contradictions, and factual omissions exhibited in the arguments of the critics represent neither scholarly criticism nor skepticism, but rather counteradvocacy masquerading as skepticism. True skepticism involves the suspension of belief, not disbelief.
Charles Honorton