Half way through the year already…blink and you’ll miss it.
- One in three Canadians believe in Jesus bloodline theory mentioned in The Da Vinci Code.
- Turin Shroud ‘confirmed‘ as a fake.
- Archaeologists figure out mystery of Stonehenge bluestones.
- Are diamonds actually long-dead sea creatures? That’s a Discovery news item by the way, not Pravda.
- A follow-up story on the sponge dolphins.
- New Jack the Ripper theories put sleuths in a spin.
- Australian CEOs employ witches and psychics to boost the bottom line.
- Kooky Ideas 101: space ring could shade Earth and stop global warming.
- US scientists ‘re-animate‘ dogs after several hours of clinical death.
- WTC basement blast victim questions official 9/11 story.
- Supreme Court rules on Ten Commandments, but questions remain.
- Benny Hinn, miracle healer, flies into Nigerian money row.
- Science fiction becomes fact at Wired Magazine’s Nextfest event – and even has its own Philip K. Dick robot (I bet he dreams of electric sheep).
- The marijuana debate – healing herb or dangerous drug? Get over it already.
- Global warming may alter Atlantic currents, study says.
- France to win huge nuclear fusion project.
- Sweden tests world’s first biogas train.
- Scientists work hard to better humanity, by inventing electric bullets.
- Earth is up to 6.5 billion human inhabitants.
- Gene hunters study the Amish.
- The family values of Steven Spielberg show through, even when he destroys the world.
- Tom Cruise gets angry when asked if he sees any Scientology in the War of the Worlds. He’s either angry with people or he’s in love – flip of a coin.
- The Roswell UFO festival is on again this weekend. I wonder if Nick Redfern is welcome…
- Planetary construction zone spotted. Slartibartfast not seen.
- Space Station gets new HAL-like computer. I do hope the software programmers are good practical jokers…
- ESA’s new Cebreros radio telescope is online and listening.
- Cyborgs are people too you know…
- Is Texas tearing in half? Nice photo (well, maybe not for Texans).
- Paranormal investigators look for smoking gun.
- The healing power of mysterious light balls.
- New Nessie centre sure to be a monster hit.
- Can you find water with a forked stick?
- If that one doesn’t keep you awake at night, how about: can dogs sniff out cancer?
- ‘Prophet Yahweh’ applies for Randi’s million dollar prize (halfway through the newsletter).
- What’s Randi going to say about Uri Geller’s Psychic Museum?
- Doctors find dead foetus in boy.
- China’s terracotta warriors hurt by pollution.
- Did the Chinese beat Columbus? More on Gavin Menzies controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered America (but heck, it’s eminently marketable to a very big audience…).
Quote of the Day:
The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
Thomas H. Huxley
