Life? Don’t talk to me about life…
- Ufologists, scientists and researchers from Brazilian universities are collecting signatures to a petition calling for the release of official papers on the UFO sightings there in the late 70’s.
- Police have arrested a man who is believed to have sparked an urban vampire myth throughout Birmingham, England.
- Sometimes what feels like a heart attack can really be a broken heart.
- A study finds that the famous Hope Diamond was stolen from the French crown during the revolution and re-cut. I await theories that the freemasons were the culprits.
- The biographer of Woodward and Bernstein says that George Bush Snr. was the Watergate scandal’s “Deep Throat”.
- An ant species that lives high in the canopies of tropical forests has learned the art of sky-diving, say scientists.
- Eccentric former “Teardrop Explodes” frontman Julian Cope is so convinced bizarre forces haunted the recording of his acclaimed occult-influenced album Jehovahkill, he taped their presence.
- Could clouds clear the way to saving the planet? By bouncing more incoming sunlight back into space we could buy time to sort out global warming.
- The Sahara wasn’t always a desert, but carvings that show what life was like are under threat from oil exploration techniques.
- The March edition of ‘Popular Mechanics’ readies a major hit piece against “conspiracy theory” sceptics of the official 9/11 story.
- Sure, the Bush Administration’s missile defense system has flopped just about every test it’s faced. But that’s not the only reason the program is being cut by more than a billion dollars a year.
- The good news is that Mescal’s signature ingredient survived an attempt by Mexico’s liquor police to ban it.
- Two years later, a Scottish woman attacked by a “sleek black beastie” is still haunted by her experience.
- An unidentified streak captured by a NASA webcam moving through the night sky above Hawaii has sky watchers puzzled.
- Fancy going into space on a Virgin Galactic flight? Volvo has a competition running to win exactly that.
- Bigfoot, panther, kangaroo or prankster? That is the question being asked about 15 strange footprints found on a Victoria, Australia beach at the weekend.
- Living in fear of the ghostly hunchback who returned to haunt Dick Whittington.
- In almost 20 years of living with an apparently restless spirit, shopkeeper John Randalls has been afraid only once and believes firmly that his poltergeist is lucky for the business.
- Gold jewelry found last year in an unplundered Mycenaean royal tomb on the outskirts of Volos will be tested for links with one of the most enduring ancient Greek myths, the Argonauts’ expedition.
- When does life begin? It depends who you ask. Some groups say life begins as soon as a sperm fuses with an egg. Others believe the boundary is more blurred.
- Quantum Sorcery – a magical system which presupposes that an individual can cause desired effects to be manifest in the physical world via the exertion of will.
- Powerful, better adapted to the cold, and perhaps just as intelligent – Neanderthal should have been invincible. So just how are we here, and why is Neanderthal extinct?
- Scientists are to establish a giant catalogue of life – to, in effect, “barcode” every species on Earth.
- When cobras spit they always aim for the eyes and usually hit. How do they do it?
- Improved sexual satisfaction for women may be just a spray on the skin away, Australian clinical trials have shown.
- Ever wanted your own cybernetic acronym? Simply enter your name to this site, click and get a cool graphic of your cybernetic persona. You simply don’t want to know how C.E.R.N.I.G. comes out, although R.I.C.O. is a “Robotic Individual Calibrated for Observation”, which fits.
Thanks Shadows.
Quote of the Day:
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K Dick
