News Briefs 11-07-2012

G'night.

• Reclaiming shamanic dreaming from the roots of Western culture.
• Dr Beachcombing lists his top ten fairy books. No Jacques Vallee, Beach?
• I heartily recommend Janet Bord's books on fairies (Amazon US, UK).
• Odd sounds of northern lights heard since ancient times, explained.
• Texan witnesses a silver UFO emerging from a cloud formation.
• Help Alejandro Rojas produce dvds of the Cosmic Exploration conference.
• SpaceEngine: travel through intergalactic space, in 3 dimensions, for free.
• Higgs boson discovery could make light-speed travel possible.
• The Jigs boson? God Particle sounds like a 19th century Cuban dance tune.
• Bees solve complex problems faster than supercomputers.
• What does telepathy between twins have to do with life after death?
• Investing in karma: will the universe repay you for all those good deeds?
• Revenge of the nerds: how wise men with skinny arms inherited the Earth.
• Crack Agrippa & win every William Gibson book ever published.
• Broken computers & cameras, recycled into robotic animals.
• Film festival dedicated solely to internet videos of cats.

Quote of the Day

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

~ Ptolemy