Five years on, it’s time for a War on Terror-ble Excuses to go to War…
- How Isaac Newton used his knowledge of alchemy to found a new economic system.
- Pre-Columbian mounds suggest previously undiscovered mysterious Mayan civilisation.
- Peru bans flights over Machu Picchu.
- Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999 (B.C.). Archaeological dig unearths Neolithic partying around Stonehenge.
- Russia and China to explore the Moon together.
- Are Dark Energy and Dark Matter the result of flawed physics?
- Mothman Festival announces this year’s speakers. Not to mention the Mothman Band (though the only sound they make is a curious buzzing noise) and the Mothman Power Lifting competition. I’m not sure if I see the connection between Mothman and power-lifting, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
- Whitley Strieber discusses his new book, The Grays (Amazon US and UK).
- Man goes without a heart for 48 days. Unfortunately for him, the world record is held by Donald Rumsfeld…
- CERN collider readied to create mini-Big Bangs: probability of destroying the planet of 10 to the minus 40, but a happier prognosis for finding a whole new Universe “millimeters away from our heads”.
- The paranormal must prove itself to science (and other reader letters in the wake of the Sheldrake controversy).
- Beer cans a clue in Ohio crop circle investigation. Forget the trickster archetype, now we’re talking the drunkster archetype.
- What’s with the name-calling between the skeptoids and the bleevers?
- Human activities are boosting ocean temperatures in areas where hurricanes form, according to a new study.
- Man acquitted of raping a woman, because she had at least 14 personalities
- Save the Giant Palouse Earthworm!
- Engineers simulate jet colliding with the World Trade Center.
- The Protocols of Zion endure, despite debunking.
- Are there silicon-based lifeforms dwelling beneath the surface of the Earth?
- Obesity epidemic ‘engulfing the world‘.
Quote of the Day:
They say we’re in the middle of an obesity epidemic. An epidemic, like it’s polio. Like we’ll be telling our grand kids about it one day. The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004. “How’d you get through it Grandpa?”…”Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere.”
From “Underwear Goes Inside the Pants”, by Lazy Boy
