News Briefs 23-01-2012

And when I'm home, I'm not at home...

• New mathematical study suggests that our Galaxy should have been colonized by now.
• Black holes may turbo-boost alien super-civilisations.
• Did the U.S. accidentally zap Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft?
• Russian scientist claims to have spotted life on Venus.
• The 300-year-old mystery of the Venusian black-drop effect.
• NASA censors 8-minute sci-fi horror film shot on board the International Space Station by 'space tourist' Richard Garriott.
• A sensational flying saucer saga.
• Poltergeists and murder (Part one and Part two).
• The Devil Inside: Psychotherapy, exorcism and demonic possession.
• Strange sounds in the sky: apocalypse, HAARP, or viral marketing?
• The mind can control allergic responses.
• More certainty over quantum uncertainty.
• Serial killer's behaviour conformed to same mathematical pattern as earthquakes, avalanches and stock market crashes.
• Scientists suspend research into deadly Bird Flu.
• Giant telescope to be built two miles beneath the Mediterranean sea.
• Brazilian police to test facial recognition glasses at 2014 World Cup.
• Dream telepathy with photos.
• Remembering things that never happened.
• What consciousness is not.
• The mental as fundamental: new perspectives on Pan-psychism.
• Robot farmers and automated tractors will transform land ruined by the Japanese tsunami into a futuristic super farm.
• Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now.
• Man shoots 3-inch nail into his brain without noticing.
• I wish I had my own Hieronymous Machine tattoo. And if I did have one, I would.
• Image(s) of the Day: the colorised past.

Quote of the Day:

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein