News Briefs 14-05-2012

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• Blood found on ancient Mexican glass knives evidence they were used for human sacrifice.
• All the water on Earth would make a decent-sized moon.
• A UFO opportunity missed.
• Antarctica ice sheet could collapse into a basin the size of Wales that lies beneath it. Sci-fi writers, draw your pens at will…
• World War II bomber found preserved in the Sahara. Sure, they say 'preserved'….I prefer to believe 'time-shifted'.
• The latest Binnall of America podcast features Roland Watson discussing the Loch Ness Monster.
• Cosmic Log interviews channeller J.Z. Knight as to what lies beyond the Bleep.
• Going parasitic on the parasites: researchers generate electricity from viruses.
• How neuroscience is shrinking consciousness.
• Using robots to retrieve information from neurons in living brains. Now that's just asking for a robot apocalypse.
• Will we one day have to remove our glasses when we want to do something in private? Google's Glasses may one day record our lives.
• But record for whom? Court upholds NSA's decision to withhold documents regarding its relationship with Google.
• Collective dreaming in Amazonian culture. For more detailed discussion, check out Charles Laughlin's Communing with the Gods.
• 'Dead' Australian leaves hospital.
• 100,000 LED spheres flow down a Japanese river.
• India designs a car that runs on air.
• Ghosts pole dance? Look for Spiritualism to make a big come-back very soon.
• Image of the Day: Prince perfects the art of air guitar.

Thanks RPJ and Rick.

Quote of the Day:

The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow