News Briefs 20-02-2012
Posted by Greg at 04:44, 20 Feb 2012Happy birthday to my little girl Maya who turned 6 on Saturday, and happy anniversary to my beautiful wife for Sunday.
- Did otherworldly music inspire Stonehenge?
- Rupert Sheldrake's alternative science.
- Alien life clues in Antarctic ice?
- Something like the fantastic creatures we expected to greet us on Mars?
- It's time to give SETI a chance.
- Freaky physics proves parallel universes exist.
- Can science test the validity of the supernatural?
- The occult obsessions of Britain's greatest scientist, Sir Isaac Newton.
- Crystals may have a structure in time as well as in space.
- Did Hitler have an illegitimate French son?
- Presidential staff member backs hunt for Indonesian pyramid.
- Thieves raid Greece's Ancient Olympia Museum.
- Forget drone aircraft…the bipedal drone soldiers are coming.
- Meet the youngest person on Earth to build a working fusion reactor (aged 14).
- A closer look at the science of life extension.
- USB stick can sequence DNA in seconds.
- Dr Melba Ketchum says Bigfoot DNA results will be "beautiful".
- Newspaper smears Richard Dawkins with silly ancestor slavery story. Dawkins comments on his website.
- Feel sorry for Dawkins, as I'm sure he'd never resort to slippery attack journalism…
- And here's Dawkins "successfully rattling cages". Oh wait, that's the radio interview in which he was pwned.
- Researchers are "scared to death" of big business-funded anti-science lobby.
- How much would it cost to build the Death Star?
- Image of the Day: Holy Joker on a skateboard Batman!
Quote of the Day:
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
GK Chesterton
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27 May 2010
1 year 6 weeks
An Irish musician has specialized in the area of Bronze age music for some decades now. He has actually played some horns, trumpets and other instruments from the Bronze Age held in the National Irish Museum. He has also recreated some of these instruments and have given many public performances on them.
This is his site and may be of interest to the general reader. http://homepage.eircom.net/~bronzeagehor...
There is a very famous ' otherworld' or 'fairy music' that a fiddler heard while at sea in the vicinity of the Blasket Islands in South Kerry. One explanation advances is that what he heard is the singing of whales. Whatever: he absorbed the sound and musically recreate it afterwards. This is a piper version of the air.
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