The lunatic is on the grass…

• Time in space may alter astronaut's genes. Well duh…any Fantastic Four reader could tell you that.
• No solar disaster…this time. Make sure you check out Robert Schoch's fascinating article about the chances of a solar apocalypse in Darklore Volume 6.
• NASA's GRAIL mission returns first video of the far side of the Moon.
• Need a whole lotta GRAILs to do the same on Jupiter…two newly discovered moons bring its total to 66.
• Fourth exo-planet that could support life found.
• Lennon, Shatner, Ali, and twelve other strange celebrity UFO sightings.
• It Came From Above (or Did It?): Solving the 'Sky Noise' Mystery.
• Junk or treasure? An introduction to space archaeology.
• Why did Psychic Sally lose her powers in September 2011?
• The hounding of 'Psychic Sally' is becoming a modern-day witch-hunt.
• Who you gonna telegraph? Charles Darwin, Ghostbuster.
• A young J.K. Rowling is zoo excited that her book Harry Potter has sold 30,000 copies. Just goes to show we never know what could be just around the corner for us all…
• Scientists create computer that can decode your thoughts and put them into words.
• Ethical concerns about boosting animals from sentience to self-aware consciousness.
• Animal camouflage: true masters of disguise.
• Did you know there are more than a million ants for every human on Earth? Ten frightening facts about ants. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords.
• Study counters arsenic life claims.
• Are we alone in a universe of bacteria? Is complex life just a freak accident?
• Researchers design self-guided bullet. Yay, science!
• Books of human flesh: the history behind annthropodermic bibliopegy.

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

So it goes.

• The Gadabout TM 1050: for all your time-traveling needs.
• The Maya of Eternal Time: Geoff Stray reviews Drunvalo Melchizedek's Serpent of Light --Ouch!
• Members of the IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences) West Suburban group like to ponder on the BIG questions.
• Video: Cosmic Consciousness & the Holographic Universe, with Ervin Laszlo.
• Making money by selling Pi.
• The DaVinci Code Copy: newly found copy of Mona Lisa could shed light on its secrets.
• Downside: wild pythons in the Everglades eating everything in their path. Upside: python boots becoming the new fashion trend.
• What if there were another advanced species sharing the planet with us?
• Alien particles invading our solar system --Does the MJ-12 manual cover 'nano-invasions'?
• When it comes to aliens, size DOES matter --at least according to Nick Redfern.
• Unidentified flying Craft in Utah and Missing Time. Ground-breaking evidence, or just another hoax?
• The Gralien Report interviews Philip Coppens on the subject of the age-old Alien question: whose galaxy is Giorgio Tsoukalo's barber from?
• Huffington Post reviews Jim Fadiman's The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys [Amazon US & UK].
• Carlos Fuentes: legalize drugs to save Mexico.
• Red pill of the day: New psychiatric hospital in Spain shows what happens when lunatics take over the asylum --and design it, too...

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

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"

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

Wow.

• Police in Mexico called to investigate large glowing UFO.
• Judges try to speed up extradition case of 'UFO Hacker' Gary McKinnon.
• Fran 'The Nanny' Drescher claims that aliens abducted both her and her husband.
• The Strieber Enigma.
• Seth Shostak ponders post-biological aliens.
• On the latest Binnall of America podcast, cryptozoologist Adam Davies discusses his 2011 expedition to Sumatra in search of the fabled Orang Pendek.
• NASA's Kepler telescope finds another 26 alien planets.
• New Navy drone has no pilot anywhere - so who's accountable for its actions?
• First quantum jiggles detected in a solid object.
• Blue spheres rain from the sky. About a dozen sci-fi plots just jumped into my head, none of which end well…
• Your complete visual guide to the Northern Lights.
• Did the Salem witches dance to the psychedelic tune of the Devil's trumpet?
• Rick Strassman discusses his research into DMT.
• Richard Branson urges an end to the 'War on Drugs'.
• There's no need to panic about Global Warming.
• "There might be a God", says David Attenborough. Though to be fair, also basically "There might not be a God".
• "Comprehensive study" by CDC finds that Morgellon's Disease does not exist.
• And "arsenic-life" is dead.
• Is Lou Gehrig's Disease/ALS caused by a toxic molecule found in pond scum?
• Why do we want autistic kids to have superpowers?
• Are you interested in receiving a mediumship reading about a loved pet? For science!
• The Guardian reviews Rupert Sheldrake's new book, The Science Delusion (Amazon UK). Guardian-commenter-rage follows.
• Nicolas Cage immersed himself in occult to prepare for his role as the Ghost Rider.
• The architect of the U.S. Capitol wanted to re-animate George Washington's dead body.
• Native Americans originally from Siberia, DNA reveals.
• Stonehenge precursor found in Scotland?
• Image of the Day: NASA's new 'Blue Marble' - the Earth in super high-res. (warning: large file).

Quote of the Day:

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

Robert Anton Wilson

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

• Origins of life, explained?
• Model of solar system built inside single atom.
• The genius of ancient astronomers.
• Eleven newly discovered solar systems with twenty-six planets, courtesy of Kepler.
• Near-Earth asteroid fly-by on 01.27.12.
• Pyramid lights in Bosnia?
• Time for a new scientific paradigm?
• Does Earth’s cold plasma solve the mystery of Mars’ atmosphere?
• SLAC creates world’s most powerful laser, generates temperatures hotter than the sun.
• Dissatisfied with their own achievements, SLAC also builds first atomic laser.
• Mystery of galactic magnetism, solved with lasers.
• Moon’s magnetism still under scrutiny. What—no lasers?
• Mars is ready for its close-up, Mr. DeMille.
• Venus will be ready for its close-up in June.
• El Sol, the great, glowing space-junk vaccum in the sky.
• Facebook Bureau of Investigations.
• Viruses (vs. the sharks) are getting smarter.
• Revisiting the Cretaceous mass extinction for revision.
• Siberian Native Americans.
• Prehistoric fossils found underwater in Mexico.
• Archaeopteryx fossil feather, in color.
• Unknown threat of nanotechnology needs more study… like graphene?
• Invisibility, achieved... for microwaves.
• A.I. from scratch gets one step closer to reality.
• Suriname reveals trove of new species.
• Legos in space!
• This week’s proof of the looming 'bot revolution… robot plane X-47B.

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

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

• Controversial 2012 Mayan/ET documentary backed by the Mexican government, major Hollywood players and... the Vatican??
• Monumental architecture 11000 years ago? Why not.
• Best 2012 UFO video yet, from Crest Woods Crestwood (near Wales).
• Roswell: The Schiff(t) from Saucer crash to Mogul crash.
• Researcher seeks strange tales of UFOs & paranormal happenings at Mt Shasta. Do Deros use Craigslist?
• Hundreds of meteorites uncovered in Antarctica. Just keep the dogs out, k?
• The Mothman movie: 10 years later.
• The Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour launches its maiden broadcast with Jeff Kripal as guest. It's clobberin' time!
• What religion did faeries follow?
• 5 creepy forms of Mind control you're exposed on a daily (grail roolz) basis.
• This lady goes 'Gaga' for "Satanic rituals." Lucifer's 2nd name is Alejandro?
• Narcissism is bad for men's health. Specially if they have the misfortune of not being me.
• Just when you thought it was safe to breath again: 573 cases of H1N1 detected in Mexico -- 9 confirmed deaths so far.
• Are we over-diagnosing Autism in children?
• Magic mushroom trips mapped in brain for the first time.
• Red pill of the day: Vote for presidential candidate Vermin Supreme, for a free-pony economy & an end to oral decay.

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

Bon appetit.

• Put a cushion on the floor for your jaw & behold auroras over Norway.
• Wake up & dream: Steve Volk chats about his recurring nightmare.
• Whitley Strieber talks about the alien abduction phenomenon.
• If you think aliens are all shades of Grey, meet the Archons.
• Literary great Henry Miller had a little-known interest in UFOs.
• Pilot's 1967 encounter with a dancing UFO corroborates Shag Harbour incident.
• Retired Chilean Air Force General will speak at UFO conference next month.
• Psychics couldn't possibly have spotted alien artifacts on the moon, because remote viewing is pseudoscience right?
• Russian scientist claims proof of life on Venus in probe photos.
• Independent researchers find no evidence for arsenic life.
• To prove not all blackbirds are black, you only have to find one white blackbird.
• Consulting Spirit: a doctor's paranormal experiences (Amazon US, Kindle, & UK).
• Old Diary Leaves & the true story of the Theosophical Society.
• Egyptians gave mummified ibis birds a packed lunch for the afterlife.
• Construction workers in Belize unearth Maya artifacts.
• A brilliant new web portal has been launched for Hopi petroglyphs.
• Technology allows a peek beneath Ohio's ancient earthworks.
• Oldest known dinosaur nests found in a South African park.
• Stem cell breakthrough could save endangered snow leopards.
• Despite the rumor mill running wild, Monsanto did not buy Blackwater (Xe)... they only hired their services. Yeah, that'll make me sleep so much better at night.
• Magic mushrooms should could be used to treat depression.
• Empirical evidence shows getting back to nature can heal the mind.

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

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

• New mathematical study suggests that our Galaxy should have been colonized by now.
• Black holes may turbo-boost alien super-civilisations.
• Did the U.S. accidentally zap Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft?
• Russian scientist claims to have spotted life on Venus.
• The 300-year-old mystery of the Venusian black-drop effect.
• NASA censors 8-minute sci-fi horror film shot on board the International Space Station by 'space tourist' Richard Garriott.
• A sensational flying saucer saga.
• Poltergeists and murder (Part one and Part two).
• The Devil Inside: Psychotherapy, exorcism and demonic possession.
• Strange sounds in the sky: apocalypse, HAARP, or viral marketing?
• The mind can control allergic responses.
• More certainty over quantum uncertainty.
• Serial killer's behaviour conformed to same mathematical pattern as earthquakes, avalanches and stock market crashes.
• Scientists suspend research into deadly Bird Flu.
• Giant telescope to be built two miles beneath the Mediterranean sea.
• Brazilian police to test facial recognition glasses at 2014 World Cup.
• Dream telepathy with photos.
• Remembering things that never happened.
• What consciousness is not.
• The mental as fundamental: new perspectives on Pan-psychism.
• Robot farmers and automated tractors will transform land ruined by the Japanese tsunami into a futuristic super farm.
• Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now.
• Man shoots 3-inch nail into his brain without noticing.
• I wish I had my own Hieronymous Machine tattoo. And if I did have one, I would.
• Image(s) of the Day: the colorised past.

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

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

• When worlds turn to vapor.
• Determining the Sun’s birthplace.
• Taos hum explained?
• Octopi and RNA editing.
• DOJ shuts down Megaupload. Anonymous shuts down DOJ (to start). More here.
• That said, is the internet unstoppable?
• And when two white dwarves collide, said George Pal to his bride…
• More on exploding stars.
• The spin of the Milky Way.
• Thunderbolts’ take on the Helix Nebula.
• Does the ‘Devil’s Staircase’ predict a serial killer’s pattern?
• Redfern on the missing Roswell files.
• Comet decides it’s better to burn out than fade away.
• More on the claim that the US shot down Russia’s lunar probe.
• The Mayans of Georgia.
• Decision on leap second delayed years.
• The first ‘secure’, blind quantum computer.
• 2011 temperatures warmer but far from record-setting.
• Get out of my mind, Jobe!
• Troubled by asteroids late at night? NEOshield to the rescue!
• The year of the dragon is upon us.
• Code of deadly blood parasite, cracked.
• Extinct monkey re-emerges in Borneo.
• Engineered microbe turns seaweed into biofuel.
• The benefits of teardrops.
• Alcohol proven to extend lifespan … of worms.
• Radioactive material stolen from Egyptian power plant.
• Movies so terrible, even the filmmakers agree.
• Can injections keep Venice afloat?
• Thomas Jefferson’s secret bible.
• This week’s evidence of the robo-pocalypse on the horizon… Life-like ‘bot crafted in mad scientist’s Ottowa lab.

Quote of the Day:

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

T. Mann