News Briefs 25-11-2009

Sea change, see change.

• Rabbits get HUD contact lenses. Watership Down rewritten by William Gibson.
• Heroic squirrel mother rescues her baby from a dog, without tech.
• Intel wants brain implants in our heads by 2020. A good year for cyberpunk.
• Game of cat & mouse over simulated brains. Cyber-zombie gotta eat!
• Hearing specific sounds during sleep enhances what you learned when awake.
• Robert Waggoner discusses lucid dreaming & psychic abilities (Amazon US & UK).
• From Russia, with soul: have scientists found proof of the spirit?
• Michael Shermer says religion & science can get along. I feel warm & fuzzy.
• Hunting for the prehistoric home of Indonesia's Java Man.
• Has the real Shangri-La been found in Nepal's Mustang region?
• The Heart of the World by Ian Baker is a brilliant account of his expedition to find a legendary hidden Tibetan valley (Amazon US & UK). Interview.
• Karl Shuker dives into monster legends of Tibetan & Chinese lakes.
• Yarr, looting the wreck of Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge!
• Officer's log book reveals how the Royal Navy caught up with Bounty mutineers.
• Photo-tour of the Jewish Catacombs beneath the streets of Rome.
• The Ten Dan Stele: evidence for the biblical Kings David & Solomon.
• New online map displays archaeological sites in the West Bank.
• Northwest Pakistan's rich Buddhist legacy is under threat from the Taliban & war.
• Wikileaks releasing over half a million 9/11 text pager intercepts.
• British police arresting people just to add them to the DNA database.
• Over 40 years later, the Kecksburg UFO case remains a mystery.
• Inexplicata investigates the Rebord family UFO sighting in Argentina.
• Binnall of America Audio Season Five begins, with guests Jim Marrs and Jesse Ventura.
• Be a Martian: NASA/Microsoft invites you to be a virtual Mars explorer.

Thanks Greg and Kat.

Quote of the Day:

We will change all things if we can make the imagination sacred.

W.B. Yeats