News Briefs 28-11-2011

Have you ever been experienced?

• Secret history of Stonehenge revealed with discovery of pits with solar alignments.
• New discoveries at the passage tomb of Knowth.
• Were the Dead Sea Scrolls written by the Essenes?
• Second Mayan tablet linked to 2012 end-time.
• Is the end of the world nigh?
• Life on Earth began with a planetary mega-organism that split into the three domains of life.
• Most-liveable alien worlds ranked. Invest early!
• Search for alien life should include exotic possibilities. Like they're already here?
• What might they want? A review of Thomas 'Eddie' Bullard's The Myth and Mystery of UFOs (Amazon US and Amazon UK).
• UFO researcher (and Daily Grail blogger) Chris Rutkowski has joined the Roswell 'Dream Team'.
• Man takes German government to court seeking release of secret UFO documents.
• Why our future in space ain't just a walk in the (lunar) park.
• CO2 may not warm the planet as much as originally thought. With plenty of caveats jammed furiously into the article…
• The noose around relativity is tightening.
• Researching anomalies is crucial for bettering our understanding of the universe.
• Did mystery hijacker 'D.B. Cooper' model himself on a comic book hero?
• Were the stigmata of Saint Padre Pio a hoax created using carbolic acid?
• Family furious about body of murder victim being used as a competition on psychic 'game show'.
• Medium Allison DuBois is tested - and fails - in the real world.
• The Skeptiko podcast talks to neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander about his near-death experience.
• Yoga is the work of the devil, says Vatican's chief exorcist.
• Alan Moore: the man behind the protest mask.

Thanks Andreas.

Quote of the Day:

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

D.H. Lawrence