News Briefs 06-06-2012

Today's most popular (and rejected) pickup line: "I saw you walk across the room & thought you were the Transit of Venus."

• Search for Baltic Sea flying saucer blocked by US & Russian military.
• Kenneth Arnold & flying saucer media (mis)conceptions.
• A crashed UFO & a contactee at Kingman, Arizona?
• The US Government's Collins Elite & demonic UFOs (Amazon US, Kindle, UK).
• Exoplanet hunters get technology boost in search for Earth-like planets.
• Beautiful interactive visualisation of exoplanets by Minority Report UI designer.
• Basic building blocks of life are present on Mars.
• Dinosaurs were a lot lighter than previously thought.
• Maybe it was the giant insect diet.
• 2000-year-old Roman-era treasure hoard discovered in Israel.
• 700-year-old 'vampire' burial unearthed in Bulgaria.
• Benjamin Radford's skeptical of zombies, surprise surprise (Amazon US, UK).
• Are video games good practice for lucid dreaming?
• Silent Lucidity: dream states, sleep paralysis, & the otherworldly.
• Dr Melvin Morse talks about Near Death Experiences (Amazon US, UK).
• Conjoined twins from Canada could share consciousness. We all do.
• A tale of two brains: learning to unite the left & the right.
• Neuro-ikebana: do plants think?
• Scientists announce universal allergy vaccine possible in five years.

Gracias RPJ.

Quote of the Day:

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

CG Jung