A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Binnall of America has Part 2 of Tim’s interview with UFO writer Richard Dolan (Part 1 is here (available as mp3/podcast/Flash streaming audio).
• Skeptic Randi's latest newsletter takes the knives to shysters, hucksters and anybody else that stands in his way.
• Filip Coppens latest essay is on Iona, the Sacred Island.
• UFO Casebook #204 is now available.
• MAPS Bulletin 15:4 (Spring 2006) is now available (as either HTML or PDF).
• The Psychedelic Salon has the tenth and final part of their Terence McKenna podcast series "In the Valley of Novelty".
• Over at KurzweilAI.net, Robert A. Freitas asks "What Price Freedom?" in a tech-enabled terrorist future.

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A few things to keep you busy over the weekend...

• Disinfo.com has Chapter 1 from Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012 to give you a feel for the new book.
• Ufology researcher Stanton Friedman reviews Susan Clancy's controversial book Abducted.
• The Wisconsin Medical Society has an excellent feature, with video, on autistic savant Stephen Wiltshire (courtesy of Mind Hacks).
• Filer's Files #18 for 2006 has the latest UFO news from around the globe.
• The latest eSkeptic takes a closer look at the Gospel of Judas.
• Over at the Book of Thoth, Philip Gardner investigates "The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code".
• SurvivalAfterDeath.org has an essay on psychic science by Eugene Osty, titled "Errors Originating with the Experimenter".
• Erowid.org has reproduced an interview with John Lilly by Omni, from 1983.
• Ray Kurzweil responds to criticism about his ideas of exponential technological growth and the coming 'singularity'.

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A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Binnall of America keeps pumping out absolute must-hear audio interviews - this week you’ll find part one of Tim’s interview with Richard Dolan, on his book UFOs and the National Security State, Chronology of a Cover-Up 1947-1973 (available as mp3/podcast/Flash streaming audio).
• The Book of Thoth has a new essay available: "Lilith Unveiled" (Part 1).
• MITWorld has a roundtable titled "Expand Your Mind: Getting a Grasp on Consciousness", featuring Sasha Shulgin and Christof Koch.
• Randi takes to Gary Schwartz and Princeton’s PEAR laboratory in his latest newsletter.
• UFO Casebook #203 is now online.

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A few things to keep you busy over the weekend...

• A fascinating article from the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research: "Environmental Sensitivity: Inquiry Into a Possible Link with Apparitional Experience", by Michael Jawer. Full text is available as a PDF file from the site.
• Cryptomundo goes hard at Penn and Teller's cryptozoology feature.
• Over at The New Atlantis you'll find "The Age of Neuroelectronics", by Adam Keiper.
• FutureHi has Dennis McKenna's "Ayahuasca and Human Destiny."
• The Société Périllos have "Did Jesus have descendents?" (sic).
• The Psychedelic Salon have Part 9 of their Terence McKenna series "In the Valley of Novelty" available as mp3/podcast.
• Filer's Files #17 for 2006 has the latest UFO news from around the globe.
• SurvivalAfterDeath.org has an essay by Charles Richet titled "Mediums and Metapsychics".

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A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Binnall of America has a new audio interview available, the latest is with Andre Eggelletion (available as mp3/podcast/Flash streaming audio).
• The Book of Thoth has two articles to check out: Gary Osborn takes a deeper look at the mysterious angle of 23.5 degrees, while the other is a personal account of "My ghostly experience in the Fontana De Oro".
• Cabinet of Wonders has a critique of the Bosnian 'pyramid' excavation.
• The Gazette and Portal of Rennes-le-Chateau has posted part 2 of an interview with Jean-Luc Chaumeil on Pierre Plantard, the Priory of Sion and other related things. Part 1 is here.
• The Société Périllos has put Le Serpent Rouge online.
• Michael Shermer's latest Skeptic column in Scientific American gives his take on the SHAM scam.
• Skeptic Randi's latest newsletter investigates John Edward, Australian Federal Police using psychics, and his own inability to get facts right.
• Filip Coppens latest essay is on the Art of Memory.
• UFO Casebook #202 is now available.

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A few things to keep you busy over the weekend...

• The IANDS website (mentioned yesterday on TDG in conjunction with their annual conference) has two excellent articles up from heavyweights in the Near Death Experience research scene: "About the Continuity of our Consciousness" by Pim van Lommel, and "Science and Spirituality: A Challenge for the 21st Century" by Peter Fenwick.
• SurvivalAfterDeath.org has a historical essay, "How I Broke Houdini's Code", by Arthur Ford.
• Phenomena have reprinted an old article, but an excellent one all the same, by Randall Fitzgerald - "Seducers from Inner Space".
• This week's eSkeptic actually (*gasp*) defends supernatural TV programming.
• Filer's Files #16 for 2006 has the latest UFO news from around the globe.
• Michael Prescott takes a look at the recent NDE-REM study correlations.
• More and more Red Pill articles each day, here's some of the latest: Project Serpo, IANDS, John Edward, Lord Byron and Newstead Abbey, and Allison DuBois. Feel free to add your own information to these, create an entirely new article, or help out expanding our stub articles.

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A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Binnall of America has Part 2 of their audio interview with highly-respected UFO researcher Nick Redfern, discussing controversial subjects such as Project Serpo and Nick's book Bodysnatchers in the Desert. Part 1 is here (available as mp3/podcast/Flash streaming audio).
• The April edition of the Near Death Newsletter is now available (also available as a PDF).
• Mac Tonnies explains the difference between his cryptoterrestrials, and extraterrestrials or ultraterrestrials. Phew, can't we come up with shorter names?
• Here's a podcast of 'popular science' and science fiction author Dr Rudy Rucker.
• James Randi returns from ill health in his latest JREF newsletter, and immediately starts posting about his two 'favourites' - Dr Gary Schwartz and Uri Geller.
• UFO Casebook #201 is now available.
• Some new Red Pill entries to peruse - feel free to edit, update, or add your own: John Titor, Aleister Crowley, Ancient astronaut theory, Kolbrin Bible, Allison DuBois, Sean Manchester and the Ghost of Anne Boleyn.

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A few things to keep you busy over the weekend...

• SurvivalAfterDeath.org has an essay by Jan Ehrenwald on (what else!) "Survival of Death".
• Skeptical Investigations has Nobel laureate Brian Josephson talking about disbelief.
• Robert Schoch’s website has a reprint of a 1999 article by Dr Schoch on the Yonaguni underwater structures.
• Paul Kimball discusses his best evidence for UFOs poll.
• PLoS Medicine have a number of articles on a hot topic from this week's news: disease mongering.
• Blink and Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell talks about the phenomenon of prodigies and late bloomers in art (3-part audio series, Flash required).
• Last week's eSkeptic goes over the latest scientific findings on prayer and healing, while this week's edition looks at the debate between Michael Shermer and ID proponent William Dembski.
• Société Périllos have Part 2 of their feature on Les Dossiers Secrets.
• Filer's Files #15 for 2006 has the latest UFO news from around the globe.

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A strange assortment to get you through the week...

• Binnall of America is back, with yet more great audio interviews lined up - first off the rank is Part 1 of Tim's chat with highly-respected UFO researcher Nick Redfern (available as mp3/podcast/Flash streaming audio).
• Parapsychology researcher Dean Radin says "They can dish it out, but they can't take it".
• I missed Magonia Supplement #60 when it came out in February - better late than never!
• UFO Casebook #200 is also available.
• Mac Tonnies debates the merits of the UFO debate.
• An excerpt from The Jesus Dynasty, by James Tabor (Amazon US and UK).

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A few things to keep you busy over the weekend...

• The latest TOOL newsletter (Marchruary?) is out, in which Blair o' the Ijynx takes you to the 'alien' hotspots of Giant Rock and the Integratron.
• Filip Coppens looks at the Report from Iron Mountain.
• BBC's latest "All in the Mind" (Real Audio) looks at new research underway using psychedelics, and asks whether modern psychiatry is really the place for drugs like LSD, magic mushrooms and Ecstasy. See also this related story.
• The Psychedelic Salon has Part 7 of their Terence McKenna series "In the Valley of Novelty".
• Paul Kimball (and Mac Tonnies) on ultraterrestrials.
• MAPS have their most recent news update available online.
• Filer's Files #14 for 2006 has the latest UFO news from around the globe.
• Whitley Strieber's newest journal entry takes a closer look at destructive weather and global warming.
• Randi's latest newsletter will set you free from a world of mumbo-jumbo.

Enjoy!