News Briefs 30-04-2012

Stop worrying, there probably is an afterlife...

• Could the field of psi research have found its breakthrough?
• Man gets kicked in the head during mugging, becomes maths genius.
• Who is in control? You, or your brain?
• Here come the brain-controlled drones.
• My son went to heaven and all I got was a #1 best-seller.
• We interrupt this Singularity to bring you a reality check.
• Putting a human face to alien abductees.
• Exploring the lost secrets of Maya technology (Amazon US and UK).
• The lost civilisations that pioneered skull surgery. For when you need surgery like you need a hole in your head.
• Neurons in pigeon brains respond to magnetic fields. If all pigeons were like Magneto, I'm sure they'd instigate a coup….coup.
• But our cephalopod overlords wouldn't stand for such avian insurrection: octopus grabs, eats seagull.
• Seattle attorney says the U.S. sent him on time travels.
• The inconvenient astrologer of MI5.
• Psycho-analyzing pseudo-superheroes.
• SETI's Seth Shostak suffers from strange email syndrome.
• Sex with circuitry satiates the socially awkward.
• I apologise for the last three news stories if you have a lisp.
• Is Ridley Scott's Prometheus a Lovecraftian 2001?
• Investigating the infamous 'alien with secret service' photo.
• Strange objects punching holes through Saturn's outer ring.
• Is God an alien mathematician?
• Why I am no longer a skeptic.
• The delights of word play, from ancient times to the present.
• Taking a stand against the killing of Bigfoot.
• Sign the petition in support of 'UFO Hacker' Gary McKinnon.
• Flying polyhedron moves by flipping itself inside out.

Quote of the Day:

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain