A strange assortment to keep you busy over the weekend...

• Filip Coppens wonders whether the Toltecs went as far as Arizona, in his new article "Wupatki: A Toltec Outpost?"
• The latest Binnall of America audio podcast is with Andrew Barnes and Paul Taitt, discussing sleep paralysis and 'supernatural assault'.
• Phil Plait takes on criticism of space funding in his Bad Astronomy post "From Distant Planets to the Deep Blue Sea".
• Joe Rogan ranges from Buddha to UFOs in his blog post "Believe Nothing" (NSFW language).
• At Sentient Developments, guest-blogger David Brin gives his "Thoughts on the Singularity". And then some.
• Michael Tymn interviews Pamela Rae Heath on being "a bridge" between psychics and parapsychologists.
• At the SkepticBlog, Brian Dunning shares "Some Starchild Feedback". Also at SkepticBlog: "Automatic Writing", by Mark Edward.
• Anthony Peake gives "The Case for the Daemon" on Graham Hancock's website.
• The Psychedelic Salon has Terence McKenna's talk "Surfing Finnegan's Wake" available for listening (Part 1 and Part 2).
• UFO Casebook #351 is now online with the latest ufological news roundup.
• Anthony North answers the woosayers at Beyond the Blog.

A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Michael Prescott takes a closer look at a Near Death tale.
• The latest Binnall of America podcast interview is with 'crackpot historian' Adam Gorightly.
• Barbara Mervine criticizes pyramid theories at the JREF.
• Filip Coppens investigates the "White Masters in the Deserts of China".
• UFO Casebook #349 has the latest roundup of UFO-related news stories.
• Jon Downes says the "Paranormal is Just a Cop Out".
• The latest Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast (#189) features Ken Feder discussing Clovis tool discoveries.
• The MAPS March news update is now online.
• A bunch of new audio files have been added to the Psychedelic Salon, such as Terence McKenna's lecture on "Pushing the Envelope".
• Colonel John Alexander gives his thoughts on whether a crashed UFO has been reverse-engineered.
• James Randi questions the Bible in his latest JREF vodcast.
• Michael Tymn asks "Can Spirits Control Animals?.
• Histories & Mysteries goes in search of "The Lost City of Z".

Enjoy!

A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• At Sentient Developments, George Dvorsky criticises "The 'Rare Earth' Delusion".
• In the latest Skeptiko podcast, Alex Tsakiris speaks to Michael Brooks about "13 Things That Don't Make Sense".
• At AboutSETI.com, Mac Tonnies writes on "UFOs, Mythology and Plausible Deniability".
• The latest Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast (#188) discusses Google Atlantis, 'Catboy' and missing suns and moons.
• Filip Coppens explores "The Tenerife Pyramids" on his website.
• Michael Prescott discusses "The First American Prophet".
• James Randi gives his thoughts on Carl Sagan in his latest JREF vodcast.
• UFO Casebook #348 has the latest summary of ufological news.
• Loren Coleman investigates the "Earliest Publication of the Word 'Cryptozoology'", at Cryptomundo.com.
• Tim Binnall has posted the final instalment (part 3) of his mega-interview with UFO investigator Ann Druffel.
• Forgetomori goes in search of the Giant Stingray.
• The latest Paracast podcast features an interview with Stephen Bassett on the topics of UFO disclosure, and the X-Conference.
• Greg Bishop comments on the passing of Howard Menger, at UFO Mystic.
• Regan Lee discusses the "No Kill Philosophy" for Sasquatch in her Trickster's Realm column at Binnall of America.

Enjoy!

A strange assortment to pass the weekend with...

• Joe Rogan writes an open letter to Kelloggs regarding the Michael Phelps bong incident (NSFW language).
• Binnall of America's audio podcast continues with part two of Tim's interview with Ann Druffel (Part one is here).
• The latest Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast features Ben Goldacre, Healing Lasers, Angie McQuaig and Randi on Homeopathy.
• Richard Thomas interviews Nick Redfern for his Sci Fi Worlds column at Binnall of America.
• Forgetomori casts a skeptical eye over the Brazilian Werewolf.
• The latest Skeptiko podcast is with psychic medium John Holland. Pay attention during the intro and you might learn about an upcoming rare appearance by some Grail guy.
• Michael Tymn tells you "Why You Might Not Realize You Are Dead".
• The February 2009 MAPS News Update has the latest summary from the psychedelics research world.
• Filip Coppens has a new article available on his website: "The Russian Woodpecker: experiments in global mind control?"
• At Sentient Developments, guest-blogger David Eagleman asks "Why Do We Love Slow Motion Video?"
• Histories & Mysteries features an article asking "Was the 'New Age Movement' a CIA Mind-Control Creation?"
• Gloria Amendola gives her insider account of the showing of the controversial Bloodline documentary in Rennes le Chateau.
• UFO Casebook #347 is now online.
• Stephen Novella looks at the recent hype about "Google Atlantis", on SkepticBlog.
• Anthony North is possessed with investigating Possession at Beyond the Blog.

Enjoy!

A strange assortment to help get you through the week...

• Fortean Times has an article from their archives available: "The Dyatlov Pass Incident", written by Svetlana Osadchuk and Kevin O'Flynn (free registration may be required to view the article).
• David Hatcher Childress is 'Author of the Month' for March at Graham Hancock's website - in the forum, you'll find his article on "The Mystery of the Olmecs".
• John Higgs looks at everything from comic books to Tim Leary in his article on "The Impact of the Watchmen Smiley".
• This week's Binnall of America audio interview is the first part of a massive chat with ufologist Ann Druffel, discussing her book with Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts (available as mp3 download, or streaming via Flash).
• The latest episode of the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast (#187) features Darwin, Ben 'Bad Science' Goldacre, James Randi and Angie McQuaig.
• At Cabinet of Wonders, Emperor contemplates the big question: "What is Ufology?" While there, check out Q's article on being "Away with the Fairies".
• Forgetomori analyses "Eerie Footage of 'Ghost' Captured by Schoolboy?"
• Mike Tymn looks deeper into a famous 'afterlife' case in "Did Confucius Really Speak with the Professor?"
• Brainsturbator catalogues "Psychic Warfare from 1981-2008".
• Bryan Williams discusses the possibility of "A Brain Response to a Remote Stare" at Public Parapsychology.
• At Histories and Mysteries, Steve Ash and Filip Coppens ask "Was the 'New Age Movement' a CIA Mind Control Creation?" Filip also looks into the television series The 4400 on his website.
• Scientific 'heretic' Henry Bauer discusses his alleged belief in the Loch Ness Monster.
• Andrew Gough's Arcadia features a 17 Questions interview with Ben Hammott about his controversial discoveries around Rennes-le-Château.
• At SkepticBlog, Michael Shermer goes inside Noah's Ark.
• Gary Lachman writes about the "Strange Bedfellows" of politics and the occult, in his latest blog entry at Reality Sandwich.
• The latest video instalment of "Randi Speaks" is now available for viewing at the JREF website. If you think he's got anything worthwhile to say.
• UFO Casebook #346 has the latest summary of ufological news.
• Ted Dace writes about Bertrand Russell's belief in materialism at Skeptical Investigations.
• Anthony North issues a "Premonition Alert!!" at Beyond the Blog.

Enjoy!

A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Neil Arnold interviews Nick Redfern on his Monster! blog. Both of these strange gentleman appear in the upcoming Darklore Volume 3.
• Michael Tymn reports on "What the Spirits Told the Professor".
• The latest Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast features discussion of the new Singularity University, and an interview with Massimo Pigliucci.
• The UFO Mag blog has a rant from Robert Hastings regarding "More BS from CSI on Big Sur".
• Karl Shuker does a roll call of "Deities of the Canine Kind" at ShukerNature.
• The latest article on Philip Coppens' website is "Avebury-Stonehenge: A Scale Model of Atlantis?"
• This week's eSkeptic newsletter features "Fire in the Sky" by Jeff Medkeff and Martin Rundkvist, about a possible Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact.
• Binnall of America Audio returns with a podcast interview with Ken Gerhard on Thunderbird sightings.
• Daniel Pinchbeck writes about "The Age of Uncertainty" in his latest column for Conscious Choice.
• UFO Casebook #245 is now online.
• Stephen Larsen is 'Author of the Month' at Graham Hancock's website, and he's contributed an article on "Why (Some Think) the Gods Must Be Crazy".
• At Cosmic Spoon, Daz provides "33 key SRI Remote Viewing Project/Reports in One File"
• The Rhine Research Center have released their latest newsletter (PDF) on developments in psi research.
• Richard Thomas interviews cryptozoologist Richard Freeman on his Room 101 blog at BoA.
• The latest Paracast podcast features Scott Corrales on UFO sightings in Latin America.
• Cabinet of Wonders (#2) discusses conjoined twins in their latest article, "How Twins Go Bad".
• At Pharyngula, P.Z. Myers gets cranky (now there's a change...) about the "Singularly Silly Singularity".
• Crop Circle researcher Colin Andrews tells the strange tale of the "Encounter at Cheesefoot Head".

Enjoy!

Employing muscle memory and traveling clairvoyance, I bring you the latest blogs and podcasts:

• Robert McLuhan looks at skeptic Susan Blackmore's thoughts on prayer at Paranormalia.
• At Public Parapsychology, Bryan Williams reports on 'global consciousness' research in "Super Bowl XLIII Field RNG Demonstration" (followd by parts two, three, and four).
• Phantoms and Monsters features a video interview with Travis Walton regarding his famous 'alien abduction'.
• At Skeptiko, Alex Tsakiris asks Dr Alan Wallace: "Is the Dalai Lama an Atheist?"
• At SkepticBlog, Dr Steven Novella gives suggestions to fellow skeptics on "How Not to Argue".
• Michael Prescott considers the Gnostics in his latest blog entry, "Why So Mysterious?" (great title).
• At Cabinet of Wonders, Emperor revisits "Adamski's Missing Sci-Fi Novel".

Enjoy!

The blogscan's a little late this week due to time constraints...but it has had no effect on the weirdness quotient.

• Rupert Sheldrake's website features audio of Rupert's 20th January lecture at Goldsmiths College, "Morphic Resonance, Collective Memory and the Habits of Nature (mp3 download). Also: Ken Wilber waxes lyrical about "Sheldrake's Theory of Morphogenesis".
• Dean Radin has posted video of Peter Bancel explaining the Global Consciousness Project. Extra parts are linked below in the comments.
• Renaud Evrard reviews last year's Utrecht II Parapsychology Conference, at Public Parapsychology. Also, Carlos Alvarado and Nancy Zingrone have done the same at the Parapsychology Foundation blog.
• Filip Coppens writes about "The Hermetic Stone" on his website. Also, the Rennes-le-Chateau Research and Resource website features an exclusive excerpt from Filip's new book, Servants of the Grail (Amazon US and UK).
• In his monthly 'Skeptic' column for Sci-Am, Michael Shermer gives "A Skeptic's Take on the Public Misunderstanding of Darwin".
• Michael Prescott comments on "Those Darn Gnostics".
• At Fortean Times, David Hambling writes about "The Damned Science" of eugenics (free registration may be required to view the article).
• Robert McLuhan is sure to enrage some skeptics with his neww Paranormalia article "Psi and Holocaust Denial".
• Alex Tsakiris interviews Christian science writer Denyse O'Leary in the latest Skeptiko podcast.
• Guy Patton is the latest interviewee on the Radio Rennessence podcast.
• The latest Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast features news on the Holographic Universe and an interview with Alice Tuff regarding sense in science.
• UFO Casebook #343 is now online.
• On Graham Hancock's website, Richard E. Ford contributes an article titled "The Great Pyramid and the North Pole of the Ecliptic".
• Magonia reviews our very own Darklore anthology.
• Forgetomori takes a skeptical look at an 'ancient astronaut' case and finds it wanting.
• Anthony North looks for "A Paranormal Consensus" at Beyond the Blog.
• Radio Misterioso host Greg Bishop talks to Ray Stanford about "Contactees, Psychic and Scientific Ufology".

Enjoy!

A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Graham Hancock's website has a new forum article: "Pyramid Mysteries? What's that?", by Frank Dörnenburg.
• Bill Chalker has a detailed look at his investigation of "The Westall UFO 'Black Swan'" on his Oz Files blog.
• Richard Freeman goes walking in the "Shadow of the Thunderbird" in a guest article on Jon Downes' CFZ blog.
• Robert McLuhan discusses two new skeptical books about the mediumship of D.D. Home.
• AboutSETI.com hosts Mac Tonnies' latest essay, "The Semantics of Alien Visitation".
• This week's Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast features discussion of methane on Mars, and an interview with Michio Kaku.
• Michael Tymn recounts accounts of "Being in Two Places at Once".
• Gloria Amendola takes you into "The Underground" of Templar history in Europe (Part One).
• Ben Goldacre debunks recent media myths about coffee and hallucinations of dead people at Bad Science.
• At Sentient Developments, Russell Blackford guestblogs on the question, "Where's My Alien Civilisation?" (Parts one and two).
• Neil Arnold tells the weird 'tail' of the Mermaid of London.
• Rosemary Pilkington reviews Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go at Public Parapsychology.
• Emps takes you beneath the surface of water-related UFO sightings, in his new Cabinet of Wonders posting "Lake UFOs".
• Filip Coppens waxes lyrical on "The Tarot and the Grail".
• Forgetomori declares the "Alien Skeleton Case Closed" (Warning: Some Graphic Images).
• UFO Casebook #342 has a round-up of recent ufological stories.
• This week's eSkeptic feature article is "Homeopathy - Still Crazy After All These Years", by Harriet Hall M.D.
• Greg Bishop pulls out an old "Contactee Film Clip" from the archives, at UFO Mystic.
• The latest MAPS News Update is now available, with breaking news on the psychedelic research front.
• Michael Prescott thinks about "The SuperConscious" on his blog.
• At BoA, Richelle Hawks investigates the link between "Aluminium and UFOs".

Enjoy!

Moving the blogscan to Wednesday, in praise of Odin...

• At SkepticBlog, Mark Edward gets dangerously close to breaking party-lines in his post on "Animal Telepathy".
• Robert McLuhan juxtaposes "Psi and Creationism" at Paranormalia.
• At Binnall of America, Richard Thomas interviews paranormal and transhumanist pundit Mac Tonnies.
• Episode 180 of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe looks at 2008 in review. Did I make the list of the "worst promoters of woo"?
• At Andy Gough's Arcadia, Isaac Ben Jacob, Sara Fishberg and Jean de Niort investigate "The Scandal of the Cult of the Dead".
• Michael Shermer and Richard Dawkins debate how intelligent alien life would look.
• Adam Korbitz asks whether Mars is hosting some life of its own at his Estimate of the Situation blog.
• Alterati has an interview with Clifford Pickover on parallel universes, alien religions and Carl Jung.

Enjoy!