News Briefs 18-04-2012

Happy birthday, David.

• If you're dismissive of conspiracy theories, you must read that link.
• Skeptiko features alternative investigative journalist James Corbett.
• Difficulties in spirit communication explained from the other side.
• Israeli cave an ancient entrance to the Greco-Roman underworld.
• Native American Sun Temple in Colorado may have Orion alignment.
• In search of lost cities, from Mexico to Mongolia.
• What lies beneath the statues of Easter Island?
• Murder in Tibet: 18th century intrigue in the holy Potala Palace.
• Namazu-e: earthquake woodblock prints from 19th century Japan.
• Mike Clelland talks to Christopher Knowles about owls & UFOs.
• The power of coincidence: why we should take notice of synchronicity.
• Surf's up, Dreamer! Innovative technique to achieve lucid dreaming.
• Awake or knocked out? Puzzle of consciousness gets blurrier.
• More evidence that some plants can communicate with each other.
• TEDMED: Mycologist Paul Stamets espouses the power of fungi.
• Bill Plotkin & David Abram discuss a great shift with nature.
• Comfy tree nests built by orangutans are surprisingly sophisticated.
• Singing Neanderthals: the evolutionary enigma of music.

Thanks RPJ, grailseeker, Gavin Rothery, Ryan Hurd.

Quote of the Day:

Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins, ashes of expired stars rekindle in our genetic chemistry.

~ Theodore Roszak