Replication in more ways than one.

• Replication studies: bad copy.
• Evidence found that Lake Cheko is impact crater for Tunguska Event.
• How one flawed study spawned a decade of lies.
• The Unabomber’s pen pal.
• Microbes at the edge of space.
• Space X successfully launches dragon into orbit.
• Anatomical evidence for the elusive G-Spot.
• Nikola Tesla wasn’t god and Thomas Edison wasn’t the devil.
• Cursing stone found on Isle of Canna.
• Hidden epidemic: tapeworms living inside people’s brains.
• More parasites means healthier frogs.
• Why great ideas come when you aren’t trying.
• California considers DNA privacy law.
• Reaction uses carbon dioxide to make carbon-based semiconductor.
• Science vs PR.
• Headaches led to discovery of tumour - in the other twin.
• Secret ingredient to make solar energy work: salt.

Quote of the Day:

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

Rather ironically, the crowd-funding for my book project is dying - only 11 days left and a long way to go. Why not grab yourself a pre-order package and help make it just a near-death experience!

• The quest for the ultimate theory of time.
• No rush though.
• What are the benefits of mind uploading? Before you get too carried away, make sure you check out the likely sad reality.
• Contradictions and unanswered questions regarding John Alexander and his involvement in the field of ufology.
• Edgar Mitchell: Apollo astronaut, cosmic activist.
• Graham Hancock, Dennis McKenna and Mitch Schultz to visit Australia in October, discussing psychedelics, spirituality and ancient civilizations.
• Easter Island archaeology project digs up the island's secrets.
• Vietnamese girl sets things on fire around her with inner energy.
• The hidden epidemic: tapeworms living inside people's brains.
• The only evidence left of a mystery tribe is bodies in jars.
• Monitoring tides could predict major earthquakes.
• Fun with conspiracy theories.
• Chinese fishermen catch monster fish.
• Australasia has hottest 60 years in a millennium, scientists say, and "in a 1000-year context" cannot be explained naturally. But what about in a 420,000 year context?
• Image of the Day: Forget the xenomorph from Alien. Behold the horror of a child's skull with adult teeth and baby teeth.
• Bonus Image of the Day: Check out the Sistine Chapel, without hurting your neck.

Quote of the Day:

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

If you go down to the woods...

• Minions of Cthulhu. Ancient life, potentially millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor.
• Sci-Am: Do psychedelics open Huxley's "reducing valve of the brain"?
• Large video archive of 1st person NDE accounts.
• Gonzo Futurist Manifesto by Justin Pickard (pdf)
• Life. Do you wish to continue?
• Remote viewer solves murder.
• Is Japan planning for mass evacuation?
• Woman burned after picking up rocks at beach.
• Probing the interface of science and magic.
• Stunning timelapse of planet Earth from Elektro-L.
• Woman runs ghost tours around her house to pay off mortgage. She should just collect the overdue rent from the spirits.
• The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman (Amazon US/UK).
• This week's cyborgasm features beaming via your robot avatar, and thinking about drinking.

Thanks Greg

Quote of the Day:

You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you’re waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

XKCD (Munroe, ‘Choices: Part 4’) via @justinpickard

Your wish... is granted.

• Obama: I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extraterrestrials --Psst! you’re supposed to laugh...
• The 6 most likeliest places to find alien life. Alas, New York was not included.
• The Idiocy, Fabrication and Lies of Ancient Aliens. Smithsonian, why you no love Giorgio?
• John Alexander is seeking amnesty for Military witnesses of UFOs. Ever heard of Code Red, Johnny?
• MJ-12 turns 25, but Nick Redfern ain’t in the mood to celebrate --C’mon Nick, we’ll take Majie to Hooters!
• Recreating Isaac Newton's alchemical experiments.
• The DaVinci Sonata: Scots work out musical cipher in Rosslyn Chapel. Apparently.
• Has the Kennedy curse struck again?
• Icelandic politician moves 30-ton boulder onto his property so he can hang out with elves. He would have my vote.
• The clearest sign that the field of psychology was in trouble came, ironically, from a study about premonition.
• Should Bigfoot witnesses get hypnotized?
• Meet Cathy Hutchinson: the 58-year-old three-armed female cyborg.
• The secret of the super-material that died with its inventor.
• Ever heard the phrase as old as the dinosaurs? Turns out is more accurate than we realized.
• Luckily for the Earth, the meek shall truly inherit it --If the WWF gets away with it.
• Red pill of the day: George Lucas plans to build a development of low-income housing as revenge on his neighbors. If he names it Mos Eisley I’m so moving there.

Thanks to Rick, Greg & Ixca Cienfuegos.

Quote of the Day:

There is no Freedom, but the search for Freedom. And the search is what makes us free.

~ Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012), intellectual chingón.

Let the beard begin!

• Scientists think sulfur may answer Gaia theory, Is Earth alive?
• Nepal's enigmatic Kusunda language is on the brink of extinction.
• Crows recognise familiar human voices.
• Chimpanzee plans attacks & innovative ways to fool zoo visitors.
• Research shows sleepwalking is more common than thought.
• Learning experience: let's take consciousness in from the cold.
• Your body's internal clock is at war with modern life (Amazon US, UK).
• Ancient Egyptian dream diaries sought the meaning of dreams.
• Egypt's political turmoil creating opportunities for archaeological theft.
• The universal fascination with ancient Egyptian mummies.
• Skulls found in Florida backyard are from Peru, up to 800 years old.
• The tomb of the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa could be in Ecuador.
• Excavating the surprisingly detailed bodies of Easter Island's heads.
• Stories of UFO crash retrievals from Chile.
• 2000mph UFO in 1952 remains a US Navy classified secret.
• Belize's Chaa Creek prepares for Maya summer solstice.
• Mmm, chocolate 2012 doomsday: 18000lb chocolate Mayan pyramid.
• Rotterdam's amazing Bubble Building.
• Vienna's first cat cafe opens, courtesy of Japan.
• Sugar can make you dumb, so cat hair in your tea must be good.

Quote of the Day:

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

~ Terry Pratchett

Dogs are so useful people put up with the smell.

• Brain oscillations reveal that our senses do not experience the world continuously.
• Shark attacks: a magnetic solution?
• Animal hair and feathers may offer clues to restore human fingers and toes.
• Are development experts becoming racists?
• Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?
• How dogs may have helped Humans beat Neanderthals.
• The truth of false knowledge.
• New planet in our solar system?
• Graphene shows its colours.
• Scientists discover first ever record of insect pollination from 100 million years ago.
• Newly discovered bacterium forms intracellular minerals.
• Ice sheet collapse recorded in octopus DNA?
• Is aging a disease?
• Row over resveratrol rumbles on.
• Easter Island heads have buried bodies.
• Methylating your muscle DNA.
• The world’s oldest t’art?

Quote of the Day:

'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

Malaclypse the Younger

Grab yourself a cheap book and help support The Daily Grail! Someone at least take the damn total a dollar higher than $2999!

• Blood found on ancient Mexican glass knives evidence they were used for human sacrifice.
• All the water on Earth would make a decent-sized moon.
• A UFO opportunity missed.
• Antarctica ice sheet could collapse into a basin the size of Wales that lies beneath it. Sci-fi writers, draw your pens at will…
• World War II bomber found preserved in the Sahara. Sure, they say 'preserved'….I prefer to believe 'time-shifted'.
• The latest Binnall of America podcast features Roland Watson discussing the Loch Ness Monster.
• Cosmic Log interviews channeller J.Z. Knight as to what lies beyond the Bleep.
• Going parasitic on the parasites: researchers generate electricity from viruses.
• How neuroscience is shrinking consciousness.
• Using robots to retrieve information from neurons in living brains. Now that's just asking for a robot apocalypse.
• Will we one day have to remove our glasses when we want to do something in private? Google's Glasses may one day record our lives.
• But record for whom? Court upholds NSA's decision to withhold documents regarding its relationship with Google.
• Collective dreaming in Amazonian culture. For more detailed discussion, check out Charles Laughlin's Communing with the Gods.
• 'Dead' Australian leaves hospital.
• 100,000 LED spheres flow down a Japanese river.
• India designs a car that runs on air.
• Ghosts pole dance? Look for Spiritualism to make a big come-back very soon.
• Image of the Day: Prince perfects the art of air guitar.

Thanks RPJ and Rick.

Quote of the Day:

The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

”The wise man looks into space and knows there is no limited dimensions.”

• Newly unearthed Mayan Calendar recalibrates end date.
• More on the Mayan ‘calendar notes’ in Guatemala.
• Star-light, star-bright, first super-earth I see tonight.
• And when worlds collide…
• Cosmic rays and mass extinctions?
• Supermoon pics, via Nat Geo.
• To make omelets on Mars, crack a few eggs.
• Or just watch Mars' moving sand dunes.
• The dark matter smoking gun?
• Vesta is ready for its close-up.
• Algol, binary star of the ages.
• The ISS is finally finished… Now what?
• Raining satellites challenge meteorologists.
• Happy birthday and a hearty 'Tut-tut' to Howard Carter.
• Scientists cheat death… sort of.
• Got any plutonium? Bury it (unless you've got a DeLorean).
• Making origami with light.
• Eating nanoparticles.
• Beware the six-fingered man.
• Lost language, found.
• This week’s evidence of the looming robot uprising… real world Gundam ‘bots.

Quote of the Day:

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

Lao Tzu

"My momma used to say life is like a box of chocolates.
And then I found... this"

ಠ_ಠ

• Abheben! Did the Nazis launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?
• Secret Air Force X-37B space plane mission was a 'spectacular success' of a need-to-know basis.
• Tweeting to ET: Communicating with alien intelligences in 140 characters or less.
• It's official: Riddley Scott's Prometheus is gonna make Stanton Friedman very, VERY happy.
• Is the Atlantean Hall of Records in America? Jason Offutt investigates the Missouri Mystery Mound.
• 6,000-year-old settlement in Ireland poses a tsunami mystery.
• Alien abductions actually lucid dreams? That's what Freddy wants you to think.
• Peter Robbins & the Rendlesham controversy, on Radio Misterioso.
• BarZOOM! Martian landscape more active and dynamic than previously thought.
• Dude looks like a --murderous-- lady: Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
• IQ is overrated when compared with your EQ, MQ, & BQ --WTF?
• 2012: End of the World or Consciousness Revolution? by Stanislav Grof.
• The North Pacific plastic waste keeps on growing... and growing... and growing...
• Mini-mammoths lived on Crete. So they were the Reno of megafauna?
• Rarest gorilla revealed in camera-trap video. Looks 'shopped.
• Red pill of the day: Entrepreneur changes his name to Tyrannosaurus Rex in order to boost his business. How can you seal deals with those tiny arms, dude?

A mother-load of gratitude to Rick & Susan.

Quote of the Day:

“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”

~John F. Kennedy

Vale Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012).

• "Losing yourself" in a fictional character can literally change the real you. Explains why I'm fond of elevenses & elves...
• Invoking Ireland: living the myths of the Tuatha Dé Dannan.
• Howard Carter, the man who unleashed Tutankhamun's curse, turns 138 today.
• Anatomy of an Excavation: the definitive resource for Carter & Carnarvon's archaeological legacy.
• How ancient Egyptians used pictograms instead of numbers to count.
• Lights from the Other World: floater structures in the visual arts of modern shamans.
• Masters of Chaos: innovative shamanic art exhibition in Paris.
• New analysis shows prehistoric Chauvet cave art is the oldest of its kind.
• Shooting Bigfoot is ok in Texas, as long as he's a Texan. And real.
• Are red-haired people more sensitive to the paranormal? Only when I grow a beard.
• Michael Prescott examines the near death experience of Pam Reynolds.
• Chip Coffey talks about growing up psychic, & why you're never too old to start learning (Amazon US, Kindle, UK)
• Light from an alien world seen for the first time.
• A monster sunspot threatens to unleash powerful solar flares.
• Why did NASA turn off SOHO when a large unidentified object was seen near the sun?
• US Military drones (accidentally on purpose) spying on you.

Gracias, Red Pill Junkie.

Quote of the Day:

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"

~ from Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, 1963