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News Briefs 30-04-2010

Loving the new Daily Grail theme, Greg!

  • Under a cloak of darkness: reports of night-time antiquities removal, and an explosion, at Giza. UPDATE: Video.
  • Did a Siberian hunter save a Yeti from drowning?
  • NASA announces evidence of life on Mars, or is that life on space probes?
  • The fallout from the disinvitation of three participants of a physics conference due to ‘interest in the paranormal’ (as covered here on TDG recently) continues.
  • Demons, Succubi, and the archetypal mind.
  • Ark discovery hoax claim by ex-expedition member.
  • Skeptiko: common ground on global consciousness research.
  • How I Learned to Cope With High Strangeness, Government Harassment, and My Mother – published online by Chuck Weiss.
  • Why Statues Weep: a collection of articles from 21 years of Skeptic Magazine (Amazon US/UK).
  • If "the ‘true’ scientist tries to disprove what he believes, whereas the ‘true’ believer tends to look for evidence that confirms it", does that make chaos magicians ‘false’ believers?
  • How to win a scientific argument when the data is inconclusive: make untestable, false claims (or, just be Richard Dawkins).
  • Is the Earth growing?? Finite resources, my ass!
  • Was Asimov right about contacting extraterrestrial civilizations?
  • Could Stephen Hawking’s fear-mongering statements about alien contact be part of UK military intelligence psyops? There are alternatives to the weaponisation of space, you know!
  • Speaking of alternative weapons, New Age terrorists develop homeopathic bomb that only effects the gullible.
  • A hermit in India’s Ahmedabad City claims to have survived without food and water for the last 70 years.
  • Study finds calculus was invented in India.
  • Debt: the first five thousand years.
  • An underwater river of hydrogen sulphite in Mexico.
  • I’m pretty sure I’ve invented a time machine

Quote of the Day:

It takes maturity to grasp that there are no gods & yet still behave as if there were.

Deng Ming-Dao

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