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News Briefs 11-03-2013

Posted by Kat at 14:08, 11 Mar 2013

Hmmm. Aren't all photons real?

Ex nihilo: Dynamical Casimir effect in metamaterial converts vacuum fluctuations into real photons.
US teen designs compact nuclear reactor.
DNA submitted to online project pushes advent of modern humans to 338,000 years ago.
Ancient people and Neandertals were extreme travelers.
Thousands of people came from all across Britain to help build Stonehenge, which may have been a burial site for Stone Age elite.
Researchers surprised to find clogged arteries, or what's left of the arteries, in 4,000-year-old mummies.
Crystal found in a shipwreck could be similar to a sunstone - a mythical navigational aid said to have been used by Viking mariners.
Crystal skulls deemed fake.
Cicada wing structure able to kill bacteria on contact.
Freezing an Android phone can help reveal its confidential contents.
Why paying attention is anything but elementary.
Over half of Austrians think the Nazis would be elected if the party was readmitted to politics.
Japanese government says, unless it allows the yakuza to make a f*cked-up mess of the Fukushima 'clean-up', it will never get done. (Or something to that effect.)
Wealth inequality in America. Bill Maher's spot-on observations.
The night sky that city-dwellers would see if they could turn off city lights.
Video: Retired lab chimps see the sky for the first time.

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Posted by jupiter.enteract on 11 Mar 2013 at about 14:21.

Love the Bill Maher clip; spot-on, indeed.

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Maher can be good, but I am

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Posted by emlong on 11 Mar 2013 at about 15:33.

Maher can be good, but I am mystified by his inability to see the reality of the 911 false flag.

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from the Reality-Apnea-Dept.

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Posted by Inannawhimsey on 12 Mar 2013 at about 20:44.

be glad for there still being some things that you'll never grok :3

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"Fake" Crystal Skulls

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Posted by emlong on 11 Mar 2013 at about 15:32.

I have a small collection of expertly carved crystal skulls made in China recently and always take slight umbrage by the term "fake." It is often brandished by people who want to mock the alleged powers of crystal in general, but a crystal skull does go into resonance with our own skulls in a startling manner, so as a tool for tweaking the human aura these skulls are valuable as well as beautiful. I don't doubt that all of the skulls we see being parading around as artefacts are of relatively recent manufacture, but some of them still might have the power to change the mind.

http://www.skullis.com/

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night sky

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Posted by LastLoup on 11 Mar 2013 at about 17:39.

the apocalypse will be beautiful.....

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...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................