News Briefs 13-03-2013

By now you may be aware that I have a book for sale: Inside Dan Brown's Inferno for just $2.99. Consider yourself double-aware now...

• Five strange theories about Stonehenge.
• X-Messiah! Shape-shifting Jesus described in 1200-year-old Egyptian text.
• New study confirms Egyptian pyramids are aligned to the cardinal points with remarkable accuracy.
• Mysterious labyrinth of tunnels beneath Liverpool unearthed by volunteers. Only mysterious if you didn't read John Reppion's Darklore Volume IV article "The Mole of Edge Hill"...
• Puzzling discovery about ancient techniques of measuring star brightness.
• Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are more common than previously thought.
• Mysterious SETI signal set the rules of alien engagement.
• Curiosity rover was sent to the right place: discovers evidence for a past environment that would have been suitable for Earth-like life.
• Is the Martian moon Phobos a mined asteroid?
• There's a new comet in the sky. What does it portend?
• 'Heavily-armed sex-crazed dolphins on rampage in Black Sea' would have been close to the headline of the year. If it was real. :(
• Come to Australia instead, where we've got Yowies and Jerrawerra and Junjudees (oh my!). Learn more via Tim Binnall's interview with the man behind Weird Australia, Andrew Nicholson.
• This is what happens when you run water through a 24hz sine wave. Burn the water witch!
• The mirroring mind.

Quote of the Day:

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be

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