News Briefs 25-04-2012
Posted by Rick MG at 12:00, 25 Apr 2012Some Dead Can Dance for the Grail soundtrack...
- Watch a very cool interactive simulation of the solar system.
- All you wanted to know about asteroid mining & planetary resources.
- Mining the sky for diamonds: the pros & cons of the asteroid rush.
- Laser-powered robots could explore frozen Europa's alien seas.
- Ancient Mesopotamians drank beer through a straw.
- Marco Polo did travel to China, but how did he drink his tea?
- Vilcas Huamán: the forgotten corner of the Inca Empire.
- Belize tourism cashes in on Mayan 2012 doomsday hype.
- Plant spirit shamanism: Icaros, the sacred songs of the Amazon.
- A unique perspective on what it means to be a shaman.
- All-American Lama: how an 11th century mystic was reborn in Philadelphia.
- Parapsychologist Dr Hoyt Edge on cross-cultural views of consciousness.
- Lighting the way to death since Aldous Huxley's last psychedelic trip.
- Excerpt from Brain Wars, a case for a spiritual mind (Amazon US, UK)
- Snoozing chimps offer insight into human sleep patterns.
- Sleep paralysis as a result of sleep disturbances & respiratory events?
- Basil Valentine, last of the alchemists, first of the chemists.
- Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) has put the life of Dr John Dee to music.
- Cat Stevens' Moonshadow, a sufi stage musical of light & dark.
- Video: a fearless cat fights off a curious bear!
Thanks RPJ, Robert McLuhan.
Quote of the Day:
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
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21 June 2008
5 weeks 5 days
I do believe that the members of Felix domesticus that dwell amongst us are the alien overlords.
12 April 2007
5 hours 24 min
Reminds me of the way Argentinians drink mate.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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2 May 2004
3 hours 38 min
In case anyone caught my blooper yesterday, I meant to say "Damon Albarn of Blur, Gorillaz"... it's wishful thinking on my part that it was Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips working on the music. Although, the photo of Albarn does looks a bit like Coyne... and no, Dr Dee is not in the Planet of the Apes, and I'm pretty sure this is not the style Albarn is aiming for, even if breakdancing Elizabethans would be kinda cool. ;-)
h/t to the eagle-eyed grailseeker.
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