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News Briefs 25-11-2004

By Cernigon

I love the fact that I can fill the TDG News with baby-grilling monks, Jack the Ripper, huge hogs, charmed snakes and the like. For political news and views, I now have my own blog called Newshog. I hope you take a look.

  • New reports of the legendary “fen tiger” of Cambridgeshire, UK.
  • Meet the black magic monk who boasts that he has grilled 1,000 stillborn babies.
  • There is a website for werewolves and other shapeshifters who want to be Christian – honest!
  • Meanwhile, a boy with the real-life ‘werewolf’ curse – the disease Porphyria – prays for a cure.
  • The smallest test-tubes known may herald a new set of breakthrough materials.
  • In a story reminiscent of the bad old days, Russia sends a space scientist to a Siberian labour camp as punishment for spying.
  • A top Russian Space Agency official says his nation may have a moonbase by 2025.
  • The US Energy Dept. says it can make solar power cost the same as fossil fuels using Stirling Engines.
  • Swarms of mini-robots offer a sniff of the future.
  • Engraving on a watch may help solve the case of Jack the Ripper.
  • Richard Wiseman and others have been looking at the phenomena of luck.
  • Archeologists discover the best and most comprehensively-dated Bronze Age burial in the UK, complete with golden eagle talons as grave goods.
  • We reported on this at the time, now National Geographic Channel is to make a Hogzilla special on the prodigious porker.
  • When I grow up I wanna spy on the neighbours! Cryptographic coloring books, drug-sniffing dog cartoons, and spy-satellite sing-alongs as kiddy-content on US Govt. websites.
  • Concentrations of flame retardent have been found in Lake Michigan.
  • Israeli scientists have succeeded in spinning the world’s first artificial spider-web.
  • Statistical deckchairs and the global Titanic – the economists’ sums do not add up over climate change.
  • A close look at the 16th Century German “witch craze”.
  • Angry Indian snake charmers have threatened to unleash their pets on State representatives.
  • Scientists find that genetic factors influence female infidelity.
  • The American Physical Society says that landing men on the Moon and Mars would hurt science.
  • How do you feel about the thought that someday soon you might need a lawyer to protect your individual “rights of mind”?
  • Can the world ever really work towards total nuclear disarmament?
  • A Japanese researcher reckons he will soon have monkeys communicating with humans, and finding out how language evolved in the process.
  • The US Air Force wants “Self-Aware Satellites”. Surely they have seen the Terminator movies – don’t they know about SkyNet?

Quote of the Day:


Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.



Blaise Pascal

Cernig

3 Comments

  1. Code points away from Holy Grail – Breaking News
    The BBC Online has just published the first breaking news on the deciphering of the Shepherd’s Monument at Shugborough, Staffordshire. It would seem that the code points away from the Grail legend and towards an Eighteenth Century esoteric group called the Priory of the Sun.

    “The code-breakers revealed on Thursday that they believe the cipher is a message from the obscure sect, which is likely to stand for “Jesus (As Deity) Defy”.

    The order had to keep its views secret because the Church of England thought they were heretical.”

    I wonder if this group was in any way related to the Edinburgh based Order ofThe Sun which was one of the antecedents for the Golden Dawn, and who wrote of the famed Glastonbury zodiac as well as another zodiac laid out in the landscape of Central and Eastern Scotland?

    Regards, C

    PS Typical really – I get up at 5.30am local time hoping to get the first breaking report on this story for the Grail News and decide two hours later that I really need to post the news anyway. Then, 10 minutes later, up it pops! C’est la vie.

  2. James Maybury
    I read the book about James Maybury, I think it was called Diary of Jack the Ripper.
    It convinced me, but then so did Patricia Cornwall’s recent book Portrait of a Killer that famous artist Walter Sickert was the killer.
    The reason the enquiries stopped after the fifth murder was that Scotland Yard by this time believed that the then Prince of Wales was the murderer and he was confined at BP after that.
    A good read is the book about Maybury’s wife who was found guilty of his murder, when it was well known that he was an opium eater and took many other drugs.
    Her death sentence was commuted and she spent over 30 years in jail before moving to America for her last years.
    I believe that there were actually over 20 murders before and after the ones at Whitechapel attributed to the Ripper,always in the areas where Sickert was living or painting.

    Scotland Yard has never released the full files of the killings due to the belief the POW was involved.

    shadows

  3. I can’t resist
    It’s like having a target painted on something, you just have to have a shot.
    Monkeys are already communicating with humans if you consider certain world leaders who are giving inane orders.

    shadows

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