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News Briefs 03-02-2012

The lunatic is on the grass

Quote of the Day:

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Robert Anton Wilson

News Briefs 02-02-2012

So it goes.

Thanks to Rick, who is quite fluent in Tralfamadorian.

Quote of the Day:

-- "Welcome aboard, Mr. Pilgrim," said the loudspeaker. "Any questions?"
-- Billy licked his lip, thought a while, inquired at last: "Why me?"
-- "That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?"
-- "Yes." Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three lady-bugs embedded in it.
-- "Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

~ Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-house Five

News Briefs 01-02-2012

Dead Can Dance, playing all the hits of the summer of 1461.

  • Up Helly Aa! A Scottish-Viking party with a deeper meaning.
  • Searching for Shambhala: seeking Himalayan myths on a mountain bike.
  • The shamanic culture of the Q'ero people of the Andes.
  • Stunning timelapse video shows the true beauty of Yosemite.
  • Snowy owls are migrating south from the Arctic in unprecedented numbers. Hogwarts really needs to upgrade their 56kbs dialup.
  • Perhaps this explains the owl migration. Strange atmospheric noises reported around the world linked to recent solar storm & Northern Lights.
  • At Shasta, there's a humming around the mountain.
  • The facts & history of how solar flares can cause earthquakes.
  • How space weather affects planes & power grids.
  • Witness sees hovering lights shoot into the sky near Peru, Indiana.
  • Inexplicata has more on the recent Mexicali UFO chase.
  • Why is it taking so long for aliens to find us? Why is it taking so long for us to acknowledge aliens may already have done so!
  • New study analyses the dreaming brain...
  • ... but we're still no closer to understanding the dreaming mind.
  • A Yale doctor discusses how meditation can change the brain.
  • How to build your own mind palace. RPJ's working on a 'mind jacuzzi'.
  • A younger Rupert Sheldrake muses on the nature of our consciousness.
  • Scientists make a breakthrough in mind-reading technology.
  • Psychotronic generators, psi-rays, Egyptology, & orgone accumulators.
  • Egyptologists are still digging up the past, despite the loss of the Big Z.
  • Modern archaeologists love to hate Giovanni Belzoni, the 18th century circus strongman turned ancient Egyptian treasure hunter (Amazon US & UK).

Gracias, RPJ.

Quote of the Day:

We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And that changes everything.

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

News Briefs 31-01-2012

For those that could never tell the colour of shite, things have become even more complicated.

  • Paper denying HIV AIDS link sparks resignation.
  • Morgellons: all in the head?
  • For a moon colony technology is the easy part.
  • Artificial braneworlds made to collide in lab.
  • Explosive volcano may lurk beneath Death Valley.
  • Volcanic origin for the Litte Ice Age. And for the big one?
  • The north star may be wasting away.
  • Amazon rainforest mapped to unprecedented detail.
  • Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells leaving healthy cells unharmed.
  • Shipwreck hunters stumble across mysterious find.
  • Bournemouth resident mystified by blue sphere shower.
  • Stonehenge precursor found? Island complex predates famous site.
  • Skin samples used to create brain cells.
  • Frenetic pace of Ethiopia's khat boomtown.
  • Bulletproof skin stops a speeding gunshot.
  • Blue whales keep getting bigger.
  • Testicular zap may stop sperm from becoming royally rife, after a fashion.

Quote of the Day:

Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus

News Briefs 30-01-2012

Wow.

Quote of the Day:

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Robert Anton Wilson

News Briefs 27-01-2012

“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always."

Danke to RPJ!

Quote of the Day:

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind.”

A. Schweitzer

News Briefs 26-01-2012

There is no spoon.
There are only knives.
So I wouldn't sit next to Rick, if I were you...

Thanks to God, that Rick has such a lousy ai--YAARGH!! *covers eye*

Quote of the Day:

"Do not try to give either/or answers in a multiple-choice universe"

~ Robert Anton Wilson

News Briefs 25-01-2012

Bon appetit.

Thanks to Blue Pill Sober & hiddenplace.

Quote of the Day:

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

News Briefs 23-01-2012

And when I'm home, I'm not at home...

Quote of the Day:

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

News Briefs 20-01-2012

“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

Quote of the Day:

“Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the word?”

T. Mann