News Briefs 09-11-2009

Old Persian saying: Go and wake up your luck.

• On first time out with his metal detector, amateur treasure hunter finds £1million hoard of gold torcs.
• The Thera eruption of 3,000 years ago was far more violent than the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and sent massive tsunamis across the Eastern Mediterranean.
• Ceasar rises: Several millennia's-worth of artefacts raised from bed of the Rhone, including a brilliant bust of Julius himself.
• Petroglyphs in Southeast Alaska.
• Something may come through 'dimensional doors' created by Large Hadron Collider. Recent string of bad luck continues.
• How Shipibo healers and ayahuasca cured my brain tumor.
• Can cannabis improve autism?
• Crocodile and man are best mates. Includes photo that brings to mind the Revelation prediction, 'and the lion will lie down with the lamb'.
• Boston boy remembers past life, describes Buddhist monastery while in trance, and is declared the reincarnation of a high priest of Tibetan Buddhism.
• Amazingly detailed image of Jesus appears on window of TN man's truck every morning.
• The New York Times reviews 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'.
• One of Britain’s leading professional remote viewers says everyone has psychic abilities.
• Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age.
• Robert Lomas discusses Dan Brown, Freemasonry, and how Robert Langdon is part him.
• Met police back down in face of 'massed ranks' of Guy Fawkes on bonfire night. Bit of an exaggeration there, but at least it's a start.
• Octopus communicates with psychedelic color language.
• X-ray machine voted most important invention.
• Amateurs prove research is not confined to academic laboratories.
• New software and $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware turn cellphones into microscopes.
• The Super Aviator is a personal submarine designed like an airplane.
• Nanoparticles damage DNA at a distance.
• Think you can pay off a sleep debt by sleeping late on weekends? Actually, it takes a week or more for the cognitive and physiological consequences of poor sleep to wear off — even after increasing sleep.
• One million spiders make golden silk for unique cloth.
• Space junk storm will up mission costs.
• An ex-military man, trained in aircraft recognition, believes he saw a UFO -- a white hot triangular shape, moving extremely fast.
• Abduction researcher Budd Hopkins says 'The Fourth Kind' is "a movie to avoid".
• Moon director to team up with Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Source Code'.
• Unmasked: Images reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009.
• Confusion on where money lent via Kiva.org goes.
• Late addition: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.

Thank you, Greg! And a huge thanks to Markus, too, for my rare good luck yesterday!

Quote of the Day:

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Mignon McLaughlin