The word “whisky” comes from the gaelic uisge beatha, the water of life. Those old druid geezers knew a thing or two.
- Mysterious lights have been appearing in the skies of North Wales since March.
- The latest edition of New Scientist is now available online. Check it out here.
- And the latest edition of the Near Death Newsletter is also available online. You can read accounts of near death experience and scientific support for NDEs here.
- It’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome awareness day. One New Zealand group says it is too tired to do anything to mark the moment. That would be funny if my wife wasn’t a recovering sufferer – instead I understand what they mean.
- An Indian girl was dragged to a witch doctor and ostracised for carrying the “devil’s child”. But it turned out to be a 15kg tumour not a foetus.
- David Shealy’s life mission is to keep the Florida Skunk Ape legend alive.
- Some say it looks like the Hound of the Baskervilles, others mention the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, but there have been over 20 sightings in the last month of the beast that has brought terror to an upmarket English town.
- Maybe the Lytham Beast is related to the Demon of Dover that was seen several times in New England in the late 70’s.
- I’ve reported stories on this theme before. Where are the Flying Cars? And while we’re at it, where are the jet packs and moon hotels?
- Recent sightings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a breed long thought lost, remind us that extinction is not always a certainty. And there are still millions of species that have yet to be discovered and documented.
- A new US robot that makes copies of itself shows the ability to reproduce is not unique to living organisms.
- Want better health? Then don’t worry, be happy. Research shows optimists are blessed with better health.
- Maybe — just maybe — the U.S. is going to get laser weapons in Iraq, after all
- Isn’t he wonderful? A starry-eyed look at the ‘king of Egyptology’, Dr Zahi Hawass.
- A new study of old rocks on Earth could force a revision of theories about Mars. The results suggest ancient Mars might have been more magnetic than thought, challenging basic assumptions about the evolution of the red planet.
- An international competition aims to develop software for better robots with the long-term goal of fielding a robot soccer team good enough to play a human team by 2050.
- A lazy worker, not a satanic cult, was responsible for severed goat heads that caused a scare at a Vancouver-area school.
- A mob beat six people accused of practicing witchcraft in a mountainous corner of Mexico’s southernmost state, but police intervened before anyone was killed.
- Drinking malt whisky may help prevent cancer. I’m off now to have a glass or two of cancer preventative.
Thanks to Pam for the NDE Newsletter link.
Quote of the Day:
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
Old Irish Proverb
