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News Briefs 02-10-2006

I survive Kung Fu training unharmed every lesson, yet I break my hand washing dishes. Today’s news is short and late because I’m typing one-handed …

  • Huzzah, the future is finally here! The Chinese are making clothing from recycled chicken feathers, and Japanese researchers have developed a wearable power suit that amplifies human strength.
  • A new dessert sold from a roadside stand in Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics district is unique — it tastes exactly like freshly fallen snow. Wouldn’t it be funny if it actually is snow?
  • A new study confirms that when two people are talking to us at the same time, our perceptual frequencies get jammed. Mmm, strawberry.
  • Here’s a link to an audio interview with UFO researcher Timothy Good and Australian illustrator Graeme Base.
  • Phenomena Magazine has an editorial on whether UFOlogist Nick Pope, who used to run the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, is involved in government cover-ups. Trust no one.
  • Two naked Eurotrash television presenters host a show described as an idiot’s guide to human beings — and it will be beamed into space for the entertainment of alien civilisations only. There’s an episode of Futurama the producers need to watch …
  • Richard Branson unveils his Virgin rocket. That’s enough, Dr Freud!
  • UFOlogist Lisa Shiel discusses over 60 UFO sightings across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula reported since 1968.
  • Meetings With Remarkable Aliens by Linda Moulton Howe allows two alien abdutees to discuss their experiences.
  • Ellen Lloyd says there is evidence of the biblical race of giants and ancient civilisations destroyed by cataclysms. “Voices From Legendary Times” is available from Amazon US and UK.
  • The Meru Foundation, led by Stan Tenen, researches mathematical structures and geometric metaphors in the Hebrew alphabet. You can watch video of Tenen introducing his research.
  • Perhaps you’d like to watch video of Noam Chomsky discussing human destiny. What’s a broken hand compared to a broken planet?
  • One of President Bush’s closest advisors, Dan Bartlett, denies that Bush is in a “state of denial”, and that investigative journalist Bob Woodward didn’t “connect his own dots”. Geez, even George can finish the connect-a-dot sections of his My Pet Goat activity books.
  • A US government program designed to build a national stockpile of biodefense drugs has a bad reputation.
  • A New Scientist journalist, with all the patriotism of Mao’s Red Guard, accepted her assignment to sample legal ‘high’ drugs and write about her experiences. Good read, but it would have been a more interesting if she wrote whilst high.
  • US scientists say stem cells aren’t necessary for cloning and other cells may even be better candidates.
  • Scientists are attempting a world-first by extracting DNA from fossilised bones thought to be of a 35000-year-old Neanderthal man. Neanderthal Park?
  • Dr Richard Grossman has written about ayahuasca and its healing properties for John Sondericker’s excellent blog Non-Prophet.
  • Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan by Paul Kekai Manansala examines how the seafaring traders known as the Nusantao from Insular Southeast Asia influenced world history. Available only from Lulu Print On Demand at the moment, but I recommend ordering a copy if you enjoyed Graham Hancock’s “Underworld” or Stephen Oppenheimer’s “Eden In The East”.
  • If you aren’t brave enough to try Jameske’s whisky and vodka cocktails, then try this article about ancient Chinese brewing techniques.
  • A University of Illinois professor and his team have discovered incredible rock art in the Egyptian desert, but keep their source a secret.

Thanks Greg, Lance G, David, Xavier, Matt Sparkes, Rod, John Sondericker, Paul Kekai Manansala, and the cute nurse who x-rayed my hand.

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