While Greg’s away, we mice can play!
- An intriguing interview with Oddvar Olsen about the Knights Templar.
- The world’s biggest medieval manuscript, the Devil’s Bible, is now on display.
- Runes: the origin and purpose behind the ancient symbols and alphabet.
- Learn your F-U-TH’s: a very educational article about Scandinavian runes.
- An exhibit of 300 objects from various cultures on 16th Century Portugese trade routes recently went on display.
- Singapore’s magic monkey trees bring good luck to some and cynicism to others. Nothing to do with this Monkey.
- In Turkey, Cankaya Palace opens its doors to the public, including a statue of Piri Reis. You might remember his map.
- Paranormal sleuths attempt to summon the dead at a bridge in Oxford.
- Romanian MPS are seeing red over who owns Bran Castle, a 14th Century building where Vlad the Impaler is said to have stayed a night.
- Adrian Shine has been at Loch Ness since 1973, unravelling the highland glen’s mysteries and exposing the hoaxes.
- Mick Jagger says Roman statues and Mayan pyramids prove stones can sing.
- Parallel universes exist, according to Oxford scientists. Sheesh, they proved that in Universe X years ago.
- Mysterious balls of light have been filmed in Marley Woods. Bob lives.
- CBS interviews Dan Mills, a Disclosure Project witness fighting the Government’s UFO coverup.
- Do these photographs show evidence of ruined cities on Mars? I hope the author doesn’t end up with a red face.
- Is this triangular UFO filmed in Egypt what Zahi Hawass found in the Great Pyramid’s secret chamber? Or were the occupants abducting him?
- Northeast Ohio is witnessing a dramatic UFO flap.
- Video footage of a UFO flying across the moon recorded by Russian astronomers.
- A Muslim astronaut’s dilemma: how to face Mecca in space?
- An interview with Lene Hau, a physicist who can slow down the speed of light. She’s hiring for parties.
- Fringe Antarctic ice-melt is growing inland at alarming rates.
- Frozen in Antartica for millions of years, bacteria released from thawing ice is still alive. John Carpenter’s The Thing will never be the same.
- Forget prehistoric plagues; germs can be made deadlier by space travel.
- Deadly fumigant approved by EPA. Don’t plants ingest what’s in the soil?
- Britain is suffering an allergy epidemic. My name must be ‘Britain’.
- Anthony North wonders if we’ve always had the mind we have today, or is the mind a constantly changing concept?
- An enlightening article about altered states in shamanism and ceremonial magic.
- Spirituality runs deep in the remote Russian Republic of Tyva, a land where shamans and Tibetan Buddhists live in harmony.
- The Hmong religion of Laos is virtually unknown in the west, but it’s a shamanistic tradition that has its roots in Siberia.
- Fellow Gippslander Tim Cope has finished his three-year 6000-mile horseback adventure retracing the trail of Genghis Khan.
- As events in Burma get uglier, modern technology and evading internet censorship is helping the Burmese tell the world of their plight.
Quote of the Day:
“Better than the surrealists, though, is good old Nicholas Roerich, whose joint at Riverside Drive and 103rd Street is one of my shrines in the pest zone. There is something in his handling of perspective and atmosphere which to me suggests other dimensions and alien orders of being—or at least, the gateways leading to such. Those fantastic carven stones in lonely upland deserts—those ominous, almost sentient, lines of jagged pinnacles—and above all, those curious cubical edifices clinging to precipitous slopes and edging upward to forbidden needle-like peaks!”
H.P. Lovecraft, March 1937.