News Briefs 04-12-2012
Posted by Greg at 11:44, 04 Dec 2012More than 30 years ago, CSICOP set out to influence mainstream media coverage of the strange and paranormal. Check through today's news briefs and tell me how you think they've done…
- The science of near-death: even if heaven is real, NDErs aren't seeing it.
- Apocalypse rumours have a dark side, NASA warns. And by NASA, they mean CSICOP fellow David Morrison.
- No bug-eyed monsters found on Mars - but they have found some organic compounds.
- Will a secret, private, manned mission to the Moon be announced this week?
- Mysterious radiation event of 774 might be (a little) less mysterious.
- Physicists find evidence that the Universe is a giant brain.
- Tech team zeroes in on Genghis Khan's tomb.
- Spanish shipwreck treasure unveiled for the first time.
- Will Bigfoot DNA results be accompanied by video footage of the creatures?
- The natural history of the European werewolf.
- Sirius business: Was Aleister Crowley an extraterrestrial medium?
- Why do people still see angels in the 21st century?
- To cleanse the doors of conception: psychic dreams, scientific monsters, and transcendent realities.
- That's no alien spaceship Jim…that's a Chinese lantern.
- Neuroscience fiction.
- Researchers confirm the Pinocchio Efftect: when you lie, your nose temperature rises. Someone check the nose temperature of that press release…
- Undoing the dogmas of science: a talk with Rupert Sheldrake.
- Snowflakes, up close and personal.
- Image of the Day: Orion and the pyramid. But not the pyramid you're used to seeing associated with Orion on this site…
Thanks Kat.
Quote of the Day:
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
Mitch Hedberg
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21 January 2005
36 min 40 sec
The Scientific American article is pretty much your typical glib dismissal of the NDE phenomenon; however some of the comments posted below it are even more interesting than the article itself, IMO--worth checking out.
21 January 2005
36 min 40 sec
Interestingly, it appears that Eben Alexander himself is one of those posting responses to the SciAm article.
18 September 2007
21 hours 35 min
The materialist scientific establishment looks increasingly overmatched by the enormous amount of experiential evidence flooding the media these days. Their arguments in the abstract look so tepid compared to experience. They have basically started to disavow the value of anything at all subjective. I realize that the scientific process is supposed to detach itself from the subjective, but science progress has always employed the subjective to advance new ideas and science. Without valuing the subjective a lot of what we call scientific evolution would never have happened in the first place. The scientific establishment doesn't any longer believe in taking chances.
6 April 2010
12 hours 32 min
mind.....blown. i demand a documentary detailing how one does take such photos so I may also take such photos.
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
14 April 2009
3 weeks 4 days
check out TED's femtocamera lecture? :3
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
12 April 2007
12 hours 10 min
What I find interesting about this, is that it reminds me of how in the Old Testament, Moses objects of becoming Jehovah's envoy because he stutters.
God likes to keep it on Legendary level, I guess :P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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6 April 2010
12 hours 32 min
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................