“The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast…”

• The heartbeat of el Sol.
• The coming solar storms.
• 1600 years of ice... Gone in 25 years. More.
• Science versus Conspiracy.
• Something from nothing.
• Red dwarf validates Einstein.
• Quantum cryptography, courtesy of Heisenberg.
• The next bird flu.
• 'Y: The Last Man' takes on new relevance.
• To save the bees…
• Breathing life into computers.
• Giant tarantula added to nightmare cache.
• Dreamscape, realized.
• The Big Bang, in hi-fi.
• Touching the Milky Way.
• The mystery of Tiwanaku.
• Building living tissue, one 3-D printer at a time.
• New UFO documentary makes bold claim.
• Past voices still haunt present day.
• Breaths as unique as fingerprints.
• Watch Star Wars I-VI, unspool simultaneously. Untrained Jedi minds be forewarned.
• This week’s evidence of the looming robo-pocalypse… Killer ‘bots.

Quote of the Day:

“…Even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.”

Lao Tzu

So a gateway to Hell was reportedly discovered, and not long after that Disney shuts down LucasArts. Coincidence?? I THINK NOT!!!!!

• Terence McKenna, the Internet's favorite psychonaut, died 13 years ago. To commemorate him here's his last talk, recorded in 2000 at Palenque.
• Graham Hancock discusses the recent TEDx brouhaha on the Disinfo podcast.
• Dark matter is about to get a whole lot lighter.
• (VIDEO) Curiosity's parachute caught flapping by the Martian winds.
• Steven Greer is about to reveal his alien Mini-Me on a UFO documentary. Fiji mermaid 2.0?
• The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure: because high-ranking witnesses speaking before former members of Congress is REALLY gonna make a difference...
• The Paracast interviews Dr. Roger Leir on the controversial subject of alien implants.
• Ghost strips family naked every night. My kind of afterlife!
• An eerie phone call from beyond the grave? I hope it wasn't collect...
• How to connect telepathically with your dog. Maybe it works both ways, 'cause right now I feel this urge to lick my balls...
• This humongous new tarantula discovered in Sri Lanka is the reason God gave us napalm.
• 20-inch-tall pygmies spotted in Sumatra. Asian leprechauns or Orang Pendeks?
• Dr. Melba Ketchum finds April fools' unamusing. She on the other hand wants to extract the DNA from an ancient baby giant & the shroud of Turin. Jesus was a dwarf Bigfoot???
• Australian billionaire wants life-size dinosaur robots for theme park. Westworld meets Jurassic Park!
• It's a crime for 12-year-olds to read the New York Times online. Don't worry kids: reading TDG will only earn you an open file with the NSA.
• Red Pill of the Day: Sex, lies & MRI scans.

Thanks to Perceval, and to Terence & the dribbling Machine Elves.

Quote of the Day:

“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”

~Terence McKenna

Today's dose of self-medication. (Happy Hawkeaster!)

• DNA transistors are one example of how future computers will take many different forms.
• The aliens beat us to it: does the terrestrial genetic code contain a "Wow! signal" (pdf)?
• Richard Smoley and Mitch Horowitz discuss the state of the occult: 2013.
• 12 million Americans believe lizard people run the country.
• Why rain smells so good.
• Can music be more effective than drugs?
• How to produce a 3D printed skeleton from a CT scan of a living animal.
• Robot dragonfly takes to the air.
• Astrophysicist uses statistics to seek Shakespeare's identity.
• How parallel universes actually work.
• The cursed ring that may have inspired Tolkien.
• C. S. Lewis and H. P. Lovecraft on loathing and longing for alien worlds.
• English farmer makes vodka from cow's milk.
• Ham press turns out to be $5M meteorite.
• A couple of days late for this but: Conspiratorial cosmology - the case against the Universe, from the Journal of Comparative Irrelevance (pdf).

Quote of the Day:

"Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death."

Iain Banks, Look to Windward

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• What's Easter without a Turin Shroud story in the news: Shroud "is not a medieval forgery", says new book.
• The reality of the near-death experience.
• Strange sleep disorder makes people see demons.
• 'Flying saucer' hides in Saturnian rings.
• Can the number of UFO reports be measured via the Will Smith Effect?
• Why bother searching for E.T.?
• Earth is an alien planet.
• Is the purpose of our universe simply to make babies?
• Not content to pull down talks, TED has now taken down an entire TEDx conference before it starts because of the 'pseudoscientific' speakers.
• Graham Hancock discusses the TEDx fiasco on the Disinfo podcast.
• Air Force wants new energy weapons to cause non-lethal ‘bioeffects’.
• How Hitler's Germany planned to fry the world with space-based mirrors.
• Trove of Neanderthal fossils found in Greek cave.
• Vaccine-autism link debunked again.
• 10 bizarre true stories that look like April Fools pranks but aren't.
• Add this one to the list: cross-dressing Catholic priest purchases dildo shop as a cover for his meth-dealing activities.
• Hagfish slime: the clothing of the future?
• Another time-traveling cellphone user identified (no doubt upset at the lack of cell-phone towers in 1938).
• Houdini octopus.

Quote of the Day:

We were constructed to serve the interests of our genes, not the reverse… The reason we exist is because it once served their ends to create us.

Keith E. Stanovich ('The Robot's Rebellion')

It's damned-near impossible to sort wheat from chaff this April 1st (and every other day), so as usual, caveat lector!

• Swedish archaeologists find Thor's Hammer.
• Billionaire Clive Palmer orders 117 more mechanical dinosaurs for his Palmer Coolum Resort -- on the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane.
• Ever wanted to see atoms in 3D? Now you can.
• Pesticide makes bees forget the scent for food, new study finds. Neocotinoids block the part of the brain bees use for learning, leaving them unable to make link between floral scents and nectar.
• The chemical pesticide lobby is waging a multi-million dollar battle to prevent regulation of chemicals linked to the dramatic escalation in the deaths of pollinating bees over the past year.
• Sea DMT: God molecule or barnacle repellent?
• Sheriff's deputies fruitlessly searched the home of two former CIA employees for marijuana because the couple had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
• Alfred Anaya put secret compartments in cars. So the DEA put him in prison.
• Mexican drug cartels reportedly dispatching agents deep inside US.
• The campaign to end America's war on drugs: The US war on drugs has cost one trillion dollars and resulted in 45 million arrests, and yet nothing has changed. I think Mexico and Honduras would debate that last point.
• This giant mesh wall acts like an air filter for Mexico City.
• Alexander Mandon has been buried alive as a 'cure' after being struck by lightning 4 times since September. Reminds me of Castaneda. In The Eagle's Gift, wasn't it?
• Unintentionally letting down our guard with web privacy.
• How anonymous cellphone location data leave 'fingerprints' that can easily personally identify you.
• Government fights for use of spy tool that spoofs cell towers.
• Has cancer-stricken millionaire REALLY left $2 million in buried treasure in the New Mexico mountains? Eccentric 'Indiana Jones of Santa Fe' reveals eleventh clue in the hunt for his loot.
• How much gold is there in the world?
• Amazon rainforest is up for auction -- to oil companies.
• Our inconsistent ethical instincts.
• April fools' jokes 2013 - the best on the web.

Quote of the Day:

Danny Porter, chief prosecutor in Gwinnett County, Ga., said he has tried to entice dozens of suspected cartel members to cooperate with American authorities. Nearly all declined. Some laughed in his face.

"They say, `We are more scared of them (the cartels) than we are of you. We talk and they'll boil our family in acid,"' Porter said. "Their families are essentially hostages."

From 'Mexican drug cartels reportedly dispatching agents deep inside US.'

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• FBI comes clean on top X-File: "We never investigated".
• White House can't afford its shapeshifting alien reptile guards.
• Termites are the creators of mysterious fairy circles, German scientist claims.
• Have anthropologists found the first human-Neanderthal hybrid?
• Somebody call the wahmbulance - the TEDx rent-a-cops are getting all frothy at the mouth again.
• A shot across materialism's bow.
• Vial of deadly virus goes missing from Texas lab. Nothing to be concerned about there...
• Study finds fungi, not plant matter, responsible for most carbon sequestration in northern forests
• Time fears the pyramids.
• Volcanic lightning…how does that f**king work?
• The 33 most beautiful abandoned places in the world. I think they've got a few wrong, but still an amazing gallery.
• The boy who lived in the Amityville horror house breaks his 40 year silence.
• Are writers mediums? A spooky synchronicity...
• On the latest Binnall of America podcast, David Weatherly discusses the Black Eyed Children phenomenon.
• The aliens from Independence Day are returning.
• Pentagon's mad scientists want a tattoo that tracks troops' vital signs. If those lads have a big night out on the turps, lord knows what ink they're going to end up with…
• The earth is mysteriously opening up in Arizona.
• 2011 Oklahoma earthquake linked to oil drilling
• Hypercleanliness may be making us sick.
• Eostre: the making of a myth.
• Image of the Day: David and Goliath - Saturn and one of its moons, Mimas. That's a photo folks.

Thanks Cat.

Quote of the Day:

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Sir Terry Pratchett

Hello Baphomet!

• Was Jesus a woman?
• Memories of near death experiences: more real than reality?
• Human/Neanderthal hybrid skeleton found? ('lovechild' may be the wrong term here).
• Jimmy Page, Aleister Crowley and the curse of Eddie And The Hot Rods.
• Pesticide makes bees forget the scent for food.
• Sea hare blocks predators sense of smell (and it's a Stegosaurus/slug hybrid by the looks of it).
• Smelling out the spurious Eostre Hare.
• Back in 1973, thought-detector vans not only successfully reduced the number of telepathic crimes in Scarfolk, but also exposed hundreds of "wrong thinkers."
• The largest cyberattack in history that never happened.
• Sounds like consciousness? Electroencephalophonic music to my ears!
• Fukushima town revealed in Google Street View two years after tsunami.
• Suspected bones of Alfred the Great exhumed.
• Shooting star over Stonehenge.
• Zen and the illusion of free will.
• The Rainbow City built By Martians in Antarctica.
• Dr. Who, blonde twins, harp music, what's not to love?

Thanks, as ever, to everyone on the Twitter

Quote of the Day:

"a 'wrong thought' is a thought, which, when thought, contains themes thought to be not right, therefore wrong, and therefore prosecutable. An unthought thought may be potentially wrong, but the thought will not be prosecutable until such a time that the thought has been thought and its themes have been thoroughly thought through and deemed wrong by the authorities. Thinking about which specific thoughts may or may not be prosecutable may also be prosecutable."

"The universe we seeing playing out in space and time may be just the surface level, where we float like little boats while leviathans stir in the deep."

• As well as detect the electric fields of flowers, honeybees can move each other with electric fields.
• 100 year starship video offers a virtual trip through the galaxy.
• A living ocean on a Jovian moon?
• Explosive volcanic eruptions triggered by cosmic rays.
• Planck telescope maps the distribution of all the matter in the cosmos.
• We're steadily losing our religion - but not our belief.
• The depiction of witches over the past 500 years.
• 19 year old develops plan to clean up ocean trash vortexes.
• Reality show seeks kids with past lives.
• Is it too late to stop the cyborgs?
• Damp squib: Chinese fishmonger finds a bomb inside a squid.
• Gravity-free black hole model proving useful.
• Ancient Egypt - a hypochondriac's nightmare.
• Is dark matter a glimpse of a deeper level of reality?
• The mysterious disappearance, and reappearance, of Ada Constance Kent.
• The most surreal places on Earth.

Quote of the Day:

Give me one free miracle and I will explain everything else.

Terrence McKenna

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• Scientists suggest speed of light may not be fixed. Rupert Sheldrake 1, TED 0.
• When TED lost control of its crowd. Amazingly, with no discussion of the recent controversy.
• Are we Martians? How recent discoveries raise that possibility.
• Was there life on Mars? Bowie must be exceedingly happy that scientists are finally answering him.
• Uranus has a trojan object shadowing it. Given that today is the anniversary of Heaven's Gate, I suggest you don't take the advice of any kooky cult leader and believe that it's an alien starship come to rapture your ass up.
• The BBC on EVP: the people who think they tune in to dead voices.
• Human organ factories a step closer after scientists print embryonic stem cell using a 3D printer.
• Breaking: Has militant atheism become a religion? Also in this bulletin: water now believed to be wet.
• Tesla and the myth of the lone inventor.
• Positive side of climate change? Paleo fashion trend, as glaciers melt to reveal ancient garments.
• Russians illegally climb pyramids at Giza, share photos for your legal enjoyment.
• The changing face of Bigfoot.
• Monkey may have been spotted in the wilds of Dorchester. I think we can all agree that from now on we'll refer to this creature as Littlefoot.
• Have we grossly underestimated the scope and scale of animal intelligence?
• Ten dinosaur myths that need to become extinct.
• Binaural beat ambient music EP designed to send listeners into an altered state of consciousness.
• Those crazy kids in Germany don't get high by passing a joint around…they pass a toad around instead. Apparently.
• Prostitute dies during love-making, scares the bejesus out of everyone by waking up in her coffin.
• Image of the Day: this guy looks to be having a whale of a time.

Quote of the Day:

Donnie: Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Donnie Darko

What was I thinkin'? I knew there'd be hell to pay, but that crossed my mind a little too late.

• The first trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
• In late 2013, UrtheCast will begin streaming video from the ISS of the Earth spinning below, with definition high enough to find your house and to see people!
• US lab produces first plutonium in 25 years.
• 'Lost' tectonic plate found under California.
• Billboard turns air into drinking water.
• Get ready to drone-proof your house.
• Skype's IP-leaking security bug creates denial-of-service cottage industry.
• Secondhand smoke detector outs puffers.
• Plants can hear, feel, smell, remember, and they can talk to each other. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz is available at Amazon US/Kindle & UK/Kindle.
• China’s environmental woes so severe, top government officials forced to acknowledge them -- but not to fix them. China, China, China...
• TED: Some ideas TOO fascinating -- Hancock, Sheldrake's censored talks.
• When your actions contradict your beliefs.
• When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win.
• An 18th Century automaton that could beat human opponents at chess seemingly marked the arrival of artificial intelligence.
• Silk Road: the online drug marketplace that officials seem powerless to stop -- partly because it uses Bitcoins.
• Bitcoin: the fastest growing currency in the world. (video: 5:45)

Quote of the Day:

Can you imagine if we had restrictions of speech, or the surveillance state, 400 years ago? We wouldn't have had the Reformation, or the Enlightenment, or the scientific revolution. Those would have been stopped – and we're having other kinds of revolutions now.

Amir Taaki, Bitcoin developer and activist.