News Briefs 29-07-2010

Your daily fix...

• Bang goes the big bang theory?
• Neolithic paintwork found inside Ness of Brodgar buildings.
• Briton given permission to look for legendary treasure of Lima.
• Unearthing the truth about Watchmen genius Alan Moore.
• Navigating the wild west of non-peer-reviewed science.
• Arguing with non-skeptics (parts 1 and 2).
• The science, psychology and metaphysics of prayer.
• Bears, bearmen and bearmonkeys.
• The neuroscience of Inception (warning: spoilers).
• Archaeologists uncover Thracian holy mountain residence.
• Are UFO's alive?
• Philip K. Dick letter to the FBI warns of neo-Nazis, syphilis and World War III (Greg should post the emails he gets!)
• Is recently deceased Fortean researcher John Keel speaking from the other side?!
• Underworld ablaze.
• A brief history of possibly obsolete time travel paradoxes.
• Nomad tribe emerges from forest to prove its existence. If only the crop circle-makers were so obliging ;-)
• Antarctic octopuses wield icy venom.
• Sniffing device allows 'locked-in' woman to communicate with her children for the first time in seven years.
• Dead sea: 40% decline in phytoplankton.
• Squirrel meat, anyone?
• Manta rays take off.

Thanks to Greg, RPJ and Kat

Quote of the Day:

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature,. Both would seem equally interesting. I realise that these things can never be accepted scientifically but I'm just happy with them as what they are – experiences I can turn into art, or perhaps philosophical musings

Alan Moore