All the best for the New Year! I took two weeks worth of news, and via secret alchemical techniques, distilled it into this one news update. Whether it’s lead or gold is left to your opinion…
- France to publish their UFO archive online.
- Ghosts in the machine: is the supernatural all in our head? An interesting piece by Deborah Blum, the author of Ghost Hunters (Amazon US).
- William James: a famously open mind.
- Researchers say Scrooge saw ghosts because he suffered from an obscure brain disease. Considering Scrooge was a fictional character, I’d say the ghosts of Xmas lameness visited the researchers…
- Possible alien theme park for Roswell. I can envision the ‘Rectal Probe’ ride already…
- Kobe Bryant believes in UFOs.
- Forget the moai for a second, and consider the other mystery of Easter Island.
- Missing Mississippi slab could unlock mysteries of the past.
- 12th century BC carving may hold the secret of Karnak Temple.
- 2007 marks 60 years of Dead Sea Scroll controversies.
- Treasure kept in the dark: archaelogy (or the lack of it) in Israel.
- Mural of Genghis Khan’s funeral found.
- Tuscan church reveals answer to the mystery of the Medici deaths.
- Survey of ancient Greek sources reveals the surprising properties of certain wines.
- And a 17th century book has provided modern researchers with new leads in herbal medicine.
- Psychedelic medicine: mind bending, but also health giving.
- NASA’s vision is lost on the Web generation. Forget exploring space and scientific discovery…the sooner NASA learns to upload YouTube video of Vomit Comet flights, the better.
- IBM’s best suggestions for the tech of 2012. Isn’t that when the world ends?
- The mathematics of cloaking. Unfortunately, you can’t see it.
- Cryptozoology books to look out for in 2007.
- Starting the year in style for our good friend Shadows: Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists. They make it sound like a new discovery, but N’Kisi has been around a while now. Even Rupert Sheldrake has worked with the parrot on telepathy experiments.
- Genetic material from jellyfish makes pigs glow green. 10 points goes to the first person who picks the TOOL-related song which predicted this story (by 15 years or so).
- And speaking of predictions: here’s a video of Mars in 2020.
Quote of the Day:
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Pink Floyd, ‘Time’
