Hello again.
- Loren Coleman reports on an alarming number of deaths and near-misses among Mothman researchers and museum staff in West Virginia.
- How Carlos Castaneda fooled the world. Wish I knew that last month when I bought Castaneda’s The Teachings of don Juan (Amazon US or UK or for free in the Nagual).
- Jason Bellows leads an interesting discussion about lucid dreaming. I bet Greg dreams about TDG every night.
- Michael Prescott ponders reality in his latest blog that may have been written while in the lavatory or shower, locations very conducive to big ideas.
- Thinking too much about hallucinations and reality is a sure way to dream of electric sheep like a Philip K Dick novel, but Anthony North gives it a go.
- Paul Kimball calls for balanced, open-minds — the excluded middle majority — to reassert themselves in UFOlogy. Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
- Take a trip down Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway with Joerg Arnu, but this is a drive where you don’t keep your eyes on the road.
- A radiant UFO was observed for more than half an hour in western Iran last Wednesday night.
- The UFO Iconoclast(s) believe the Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory in New Jersey is a front for the study of UFOs and other esoteric phenomena for military applications.
- NASA plans to probe mysterious ice clouds that hover around the edge of space in the Earth’s polar regions.
- Forget the Aurora Borealis/Australis, Jupiter has auroras bigger than our entire planet. Mindblowing pic.
- Excellent analysis of video and photographs capturing twin black triangle UFOs over Pascoe Vale, Melbourne Australia, which isn’t very far from where I live, but that’s a coincidence …
- Forget Roswell, the UFO incident on Maury Island 60 years ago is still a mystery that’s no closer to being solved.
- One man says three red ships can be seen every night patrolling a portal near the Big Dipper constellation.
- A Malaysian museum has been forced to cancel a popular exhibition on supernatural beings after a fatwa was issued.
- Like the plot of Takashi Miike’s One Missed Call, (Amazon US), residents of Karachi fear receiving a phonecall that damages the central nervous system and splatters your brain. I highly recommend Koji Suzuki’s Ringu (Amazon US or UK) for a similar plot.
- Scientists claim mobile phones are to blame for the alarming disappearance of bees.
- Birds too are disappearing, with fewer songbirds visiting British gardens.
- No more birds and the bees? If a new technique to create human sperm cells from bone marrow gets the green light, will I get my wish of death by snu snu?
- Britain’s fight against drugs — namely cocaine and cannabis — is a total failure according to a scathing report.
- Some researchers, with (no surprise) the US government’s blessing, want to scrap the internet and start again. That’s what I say about human evolution.
- In a new book, Feast: Why Humans Share Food (Amazon US or UK), Prof Martin Jones says families who eat in front of the televison are a natural consequence of evolution. What about TDG news editors who eat in front of their computer?
- Exposure to friendly soil bacteria could improve mood by boosting the immune system just as effectively as antidepressant drugs. I wonder if Greg’s mood improves when the Taylor kids track dirt into the house?
- Another article discusses the increasing number of children diagnosed with food allergies.
- Thank the Gods I’m not allergic to chocolate, but kids continue to slave on cocoa farms in West Africa (where more than half the world’s chocolate is produced) despite a pledge by companies to stop the practice.
- A white cat, nicknamed after TS Elliot’s poem Macavity The Mystery Cat, catches the No 331 bus several mornings a week from the same stop, and jumps off near a fish and chip shop. There’s a cat in my neighbourhood I’ve nicknamed David Bowie, because he has one blue eye and one green eye.
Thanks to Loren Coleman, Baldrick (no relation) and Greg.
Quote of the Day:
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
