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.

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.”

• El Sol’s alignment set in stone.
• Vernal equinox, from above.
• Recalibrating the age of the universe.
• Martian rock’s interior, exposed.
• Reclusive star spins out of control.
• In case of earthbound asteroid… find religion.
• Beware the ice blades of Europa.
• Forget ‘bots-- The metamaterial revolution has begun.
• Living in Keck’s shadow.
• Ancient extinction linked to megavolcanoes.
• Voyager I has not left the building.
• Racing to stop the next virus in time…
• Computer, heal thyself.
• Ocean, boil thyself?
• This week’s evidence of the looming ‘bot uprising… Robot, teach thyself?

Quote of the Day:

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

Suddenly I’m hit

Is this darkness of the dawn

• Curiosity finds another mysterious white rock... before suffering another glitch.
• The Apollo moon rockets: part of Jeff Bezo's wish list.
• World's largest solar plant goes online --in the Middle East.
• 2500-year-old city found in India.
• The Midas tremor: Earthquakes turn water into gold.
• Georgia photo of Bigfoot has me impressed --about the big guy's super toned buttocks! eat your heart out, Gilad!!
• A quantum internet at the speed of light? Meh. Remote viewing is non-local, dudes!
• TEDxSummerisle: Ideas worth spreading sacrificing.
• On the latest episode of Skeptiko, author Michael Tymn explores the forgotten history of psychic mediums. Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife [Amazon US & UK].
• A duck has fathered a chicken! The end is near!!
• The fact that Satan totally looks like Obama in History Channel's 'Bible' series is a total coincidence. Too bad drones don't know the meaning of irony... yet.
• Shape-shifting aliens are part of Obama's secret service now --they are less prone to scandals with prostitutes, I'm told.
• So Voyager 1 has left the solar system... again (or did it?). Am I the only one wishing for this to happen?
• NASA & Disney will explore the Goldilocks zone in a future IMAX feature.
• The Man Who Fell to Earth left his clothes behind.
• Red Pill of the Day: Magneto marries Professor X --with adamantium rings, my inner geek hopes!

Thanks to Ziggy Stardust & Lord Summerisle

Quote of the Day:

"A friend and I were traveling in the English countryside when we both noticed a strange object hovering above a field. From then on I have come to take this phenomena seriously. I believe that what I saw was not an object, but a projection of my own mind trying to make sense of this quantum topological doorway into dimensions beyond our own. It's as if our dimension is but one among an infinite number of others."

~David Bowie

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• Return to Antikythera: what divers discovered in the deep.
• One of the world's oldest sundials has been dug up in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
• Was Egypt a hell on Earth under the reign of the strange Pharaoh Akhenaten?
• TED retracts "factual" complaints about talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock saying they were "clumsy" (read: fictional); will reframe arguments.
• Another view: TED chased by army of passionate supporters, escapes into TARDIS.
• The CIA's secret experiments to turn cats into spies. This explains a lot of things, actually…
• Rapper attempted to sacrifice his friend to the Illuminati in order to achieve fame.
• Dan Brown makes The Da Vinci Code a free eBook download for the week to celebrate 10th anniversary of the book's publication (where has that time gone?!), and releases the first two chapters of his upcoming book as well.
• The Heretic: atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel comes under fire for daring to question materialist dogma.
• Julian Jaynes and the muting of the gods.
• Haunted by trauma, tsunami survivors in Japan turn to exorcists.
• Private company plans one-way mission to Mars by 2023.
• Ground control, to alien: David Bowie and the flying saucers.
• Drones may be used to target illegal hunting. Which would be kinda ironic...
• Deepest part of the ocean "teems with microbes".
• The uncertain science of memory.
• Scientists resurrect extinct frog that gives birth through its mouth. Perhaps there's a reason it went extinct in the first place…
• And the bigger question: should we even revive extinct species?
• The great debate that conclusively proved that science is messy.

Thanks imagicalgreek.

Quote of the Day:

Certain things are so remarkable that they have to be explained as non-accidental if we are to pretend to a real understanding of the world.

Thomas Nagel

Are we stuck in a Star Trek-style time-loop?

• Quantum action is 10,000 times faster than light.
• That's deep: life found 11km below sea level in deepest known point on the surface of the Earth.
• The drug habits of highly effective people: A revealing survey shows many users are educated and well-off.
• UN Development chief publicly slams 'war on drugs'.
• Housewives, tranquilliser use and the nuclear family in Cold War America.
• Dumbing down addiction to apply to any bad behavior gives jerks a free pass.
• From "Mind Hacks": A brief history of narcoanalysis. MKUltra gets a brief mention.
• Two aspirin a week signficantly reduces risk of melanoma - for women.
• Albania has 750,000 bunkers - one for every four citizens, 24 to every square kilometer.
• Sara Volz wins Intel Science Talent Search - and a $100,000 scholarship - with algae-for-biofuel study.
• 17-year-old builds protein decoder tool that could lead to new cancer drugs.
• Earthquakes turn water into gold.
• How beer gave us civilization. Not a TED talk, obviously.

Quote of the Day:

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

“Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad... “

• Water vapor detected 130 light years from home.
• Europe & Russia join search for life on Mars.
• Is this the boson you had in mind?
• Habitable worlds are closer than we thought (last month).
• There’s life under the sea.
• Make that solar system super-sized, please.
• …In a time when birds had four wings.
• The unbreakable codes of quantum communication.
• A comet, Mercury and Earth walk into a solar system…
• Alaskan aliens.
• A Manly lecture on UFOs.
• A woman’s take on science.
• The revelation of shape-shifting Jesus , revealed.
• De-evolution at work.
• Bottom-feeder, redefined.
• When televisions go bad.
• Giving work the fake finger.
• A glitch in the furniture matrix.
• This week’s evidence of the pending robot uprising… window-wash ‘bots!

With thanks to the incomparable RPJ!

Quote of the Day:

“The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.”

Manly P. Hall

Music Divine.

• Before becoming Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio cooked his own meals, lived in a simple apartment & rode on the bus.
• Who needs anti-aircraft guns when you have saints?
• The ALMA telescope array is launched in the Chilean Atacama desert. Nice synchro IMO.
• More UFO presentations coming to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Nevada. Could it be the result of the new all-you-can-eat caviar buffet at the Bellagio?
• UFOlogy's shadow research community.
• Lake Vostok 'alien life' discovery called into question. But don't put down the flamethrower just yet...
• The Paracast interviews ESP researcher Dr. Russell Targ: "There's 10 times greater evidence for psychic abilities than NIH's evidence that aspirin prevents heart attacks." The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities [Amazon US & UK]
• Japan's tsunami survivors are haunted by ghosts visions.
• Babies prefer individuals who harm those that aren't like them. As if we didn't know already that toddlers are immature pricks!
• Neanderthals became extinct because 'they had large eyes', devoted to seeing in the dark. Either that or...
• When zombies are up the humans are down, Science sez.
• Wikiweapon firm launches '3D-printed Pirate Bay.' That was fast!
• The key to Korean alphabet was under the king's hat.
• Pic of the day: Comet PANSTARRS & the new moon.
• Red Pill of the Day: With this furniture, you'll think that there's a glitch in the Matrix.

Thanks to Holly

Quote of the Day:

"The god of football is Argentinian, and so is the Pope too"

~Maradona