Demons in Texas, Satanists in the Vatican, curses in England and interference patterns in Time. Here is the TDG world news.
- Have you ever dreamed of exploring the pyramids of Egypt? Why not try NOVA’s Quicktime adventure?
- Japan plans to start building a manned base on the moon and a space shuttle within the next 20 years.
- Two Japanese observatories have started a probe to find signs of extraterrestrial life using radio and optical telescopes, in Japan’s first government-backed search for aliens.
- Here’s an interesting set of photos of a whole bunch of UFOs, all taken over Las Vegas. Maybe the King got homesick for the bright lights.
- Drop the mummy, and nobody gets hurt! Recent controversy over moving King Tut puts Egyptologists in the spotlight.
- Could massive bursts of cosmic rays from space be causing unusual weather, earthquakes and even the disasterous tsunami in the Indian Ocean?
- Hey Fred, come look at this! Researchers are investigating whether having an imaginary friend might help children to develop language skills, boost creativity and retain knowledge.
- After hearing of new classes on exorcism for Catholic priests, it may be time to reflect on the warnings of the late Fr. Malachi Martin who spoke of Satanism in the corridors of the Vatican.
- After one hundred sightings a year for fifty years were dismissed as imagination, a scientist proves that cougars still stalk Quebec.
- A high-tech laser instrument described as an atomic paring knife will be used, among other things, to probe the mysteries of ancient civilizations.
- A French archeologist has solved the mystery of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Mari – it was purpose-built in the desert for the metallurgical industry.
- An important archaeological discovery has led experts to believe a small English village was home to a high-ranking Iron Age family more than 2,000 years ago.
- Steve Fossett decided yesterday to press ahead with his attempt to fly around the world solo without refueling, despite a serious problem with the plane’s fuel system.
- From the Pagan Prattle blog, a complete list of conspiracy theory reasons for the Indian Ocean tsunami.
- 2005 is the year of the powerful vertical take-off and landing airship. So says the website anyway – check out the amazing pictures.
- Remember the classic double-slit experiment? Now physicists have observed an interference pattern with electrons that pass through a double slit in time, not space.
- Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same – its image has been split into two, they maintain, by a “cosmic string”.
- Archaeologists uncovered three coffins and a remarkably well-preserved mummy in a 2,500-year old tomb discovered by accident – after opening a secret door hidden behind a statue in a separate burial chamber.
- Has the English town of Carlisle been cursed after installing the sculpted granite “Cursing Stone” inscribed with a 16th century curse in one of the town’s museums?
- New website The Book of Thoth looks at whether the current wave of UFO activity that began in 1947 with Kenneth Arnolds sighting over the Cascade Mountains was deliberately caused by a series of magickal workings carried out by occultists.
- It’s not just the hormones…scientists are discovering the real reasons for the hell of adolescence. I have a teenage daughter and a teenage son, so this one was a “must read”.
- Russia’s first auction of woolly mammoth tusks has been held in Siberia, where remains of the extinct beast frequently emerge from the permafrost.
- A Houston-area couple uses their Christian beliefs to fight what they call demons living among us.
- Music can be a mouth-watering experience for one Swiss musician who “tastes” combinations of notes as distinct flavours.
- For 40 years Noam Chomsky’s ideas on language have held. Now there’s a new theory to get our tongues round that says languages are like sand dunes.
- Scientists have reacted angrily to the revelation that the US military is funding development of a plasma weapon intended to deliver an “excrutiating bout of pain” from over a mile away.
Thanks to Shadows and Storm Bear for links.
Quote of the Day:
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Thomas Wolfe
