HUMBUG!
- Ghost stories? Pish-tosh, Chris Woodyard’s all about Christmas vampires.
- As if having Christmas for your birthday didn’t suck enough, a Christmas baby will be cursed to become a monstrous ghost on Christmas Eve.
- Cats have nine lives, Jesus had seven births.
- Are godlike AI possible, or are humans fearing judgement from their creations?
- How did humans become human? It’s all in the hands.
- And did those hands, in ancient times, build upon Orkney’s islands green? A new discovery is poised to turn history on its ear.
- One of the reasons why the hard question is so hard: If consciousness isn’t an epiphenomenon, making a host of headaches for implausible materialism.
- Aztecs displayed captured animals in zoos.
- Identical twins can exhibit weird talents, but can the same be said for non-identical siblings?
- Hitler really did have only one ball.
- Everything you wanted to know about terminal agitation but were afraid to ask.
- Gloucester residents will be dreaming of a red Christmas.
- Milk taken from cows at night will make you sleepy.
- A new study reviews worldwide perceptions of the soul and immortality.
- First there was folklore, then fakelore, and now hacklore.
- A documentary on The Last Days of Peter Bergmann, a man who never existed who worked very hard to disappear forever.
Gratitude to Chris Woodyard and her Haunted Ohio Books, and to the person behind the SPR’s Twitter account. Both are notorious for sharing top-notch linkables.
Quote of the Day:
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.”
– Dr. Seuss
