News Briefs 12-12-2012

Vale Pandit Ravi Shankar, 1920 - 2012.

• Music of the Spheres, a geometry in the humming of strings.
• Cacofonix! Archaeologists unearth seven carnyx, the ancient Gallic horn.
• The star Vega may be 200 million years older than previously thought.
• One of Peru's ancient Nazca Lines may be a labyrinth designed for walking.
• Wanderers of the Fourth World: the Pueblo cliff-dwellers, Hopi, & balance.
• Robert Ballard claims evidence for Noah's Flood in Black Sea.
• The two scientists the above article fails to name are Walter Pitman & William Ryan (Amazon).
• Remains of both Neanderthals & Homo sapiens found in same caves.
• British Museum unveils a new exhibit of prehistoric art, sans altered states.
• Form & meaning in altered states & prehistoric rock art.
• The Man Who Drank The Universe: personal ayahuasca journeys.
• Gas mining companies threaten Peru's indigenous people & uncontacted tribes.
• Futuristic handcuffs administers shocks & drugs.
• Hacking the human brain: the sixth domain in warfare.
• Mystery signals show up in neurological amplifiers.
• Chinese farmer builds survival pod for earthquakes & doomsdays.
• 2012 Doomsday believers flock to Serbia's pyramid-shaped Mt Rtanj.
• Unusual behaviour prompts Russian authorities to call for calm.
• Neighbourhood cat with magnetic collar responsible for missing keys.

Quote of the Day:

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley