Monday again.
- Here are those robots I was asking for last week, but I prefer nurses of the human kind (especially cute ones).
- Two US human rights groups claim to be working with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Vodaphone to protect civil liberties. Hrmm, which satellite did China shoot down?
- The Mind-Energy.net site discusses Randi’s obsession with Uri Geller.
- Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, a new book by Wall Street Journal science writer Sharon Begley, discusses a conference of buddhist monks and neuroscientists (Amazon US or UK).
- The Sentience and Consciousness website has an interesting article about the development of conscious perception.
- Nick Redfern writes about Puerto Rico’s (no relation) Moca Vampire. Not to be confused with the cappuccino vampire.
- Whitley Strieber’s talking about nothing really, just something about global superstorms, UFOs and nuclear armageddon.
- Joe Kovacs (any relation to Ed?) reports that Colonel Brian Fields has photographed UFOs eerily similar to the Phoenix Lights (Wiki? We need a Red Pill entry).
- UFO Digest says that the O’Hare UFO and the latest in Arkansas could be sign of more sightings to come.
- Carl Mason says we shouldn’t ignore skeptics completely. Except Randi.
- An excellent article about the Chachapoya “Cloud People” ruins found in the Peruvian Andes last August. National Geographic also has an excellent feature with pics, as does Living In Peru dot com.
- Ancient weapons 5500-years-old speak of ancient battles in Syria, near the Iraq border. Close, Dubya, but not close enough.
- A brilliant four-page feature about the 13th century medieval text found to contain the oldest known writings of Archimedes.
- A statue of Hanuman in an Indian temple apparently shed tears. Attention-seeking deities will do anything to pull a crowd.
- Researchers in Canada have resurrected the virus behind the 1918 flu pandemic and infected monkeys with it. So that’s why Hanuman is crying.
- Analysis of a 40’000-year-old human skull found in Romania suggests Neanderthals and early Europeans may have interbred. We still are.
Quote of the Day:
You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot.
Homer Simpson
