There’s a World Space Week, but the Earth only got one hour?
- Strange Attractor has an excellent dissertation on libraries and the Occult.
- Children generate poltergeist activity by channelling energy into the quantum mechanical vacuum, according to this paper (PDF) in the science journal NeuroQuantology. Let’s see what happens when we take away the puppy.
- The most haunted place in the USA, and possibly the world, is in New Orleans.
- A spooky mystery of Jesuit ghosts in the St. Stanislaus Seminary Cemetery.
- My family’s paranormal life: growing up in a haunted house. Imagine show-and-tell at school.
- After enduring howls in the night and creaking staircases for three years, an Italian family is suing the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted. That’s how ghosts get cheap property deals.
- Don’t panic, a very big cat is on the loose in North Chicago.
- Rooks, members of the crow family, team up to solve problems. Awesome video.
- A specially preserved giant squid, 21.5 feet long, is on display in Paris.
- The future of energy: Professor Garvey wants to store the wind.
- Speaking of wind, does Egyptologist Zahi Hawass have a hidden agenda underneath his hat? Part 2.
- How the Council of Nicea changed the world, especially Easter. If only there was a fly on the wall that we could excavate.
- If only I could fly to Paris to see the “Frozen Tombs of the Altai Mountains” exhibition at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
- A reconstructive surgeon describes how to transform human arms into wings. Not quite what I had in mind, but if I don’t fly too close to the sun…
- Moscow is going psycho for psychics. Not literally I hope.
- Phantom limb pain has baffled medical experts, but “mirror therapy” brings hope.
- In the near future, soldiers may be using 3D maps in near-real-time. The 3D map of Baghdad will have exits in flashing neon.
- A necklace found near Lake Titicaca in Peru is the oldest known gold object found in the Americas.
- Last December, missing pre-Incan gold artifacts were found in a Spanish hideout. Thanks to a bunch of kids and a mutant named Sloth.
- Anyone remember the animated series The Mysterious Cities of Gold?
- In 2004, an expedition was launched to search for Paititi, the lost city of the Inca.
- The Temple of the Sun in Cuzco, and the Spanish Church built on top of it.
- The secret of the Andes: the lost civilisation of Mu and the Golden Sun Disc.
- From Egypt to Japan to Peru, the Sun Disc is an eternal symbol.
- Awe-inspiring photographs of the colossal statue of Queen Tiye found in Egypt.
- The mayor of Easter Island wants to cut an ear off the Finnish tourist accused of chipping an ear off an ancient Moai. The thief will never go to Khajuraho.
- Stone Age Finnish rock art that isn’t heavy metal.
- Aussie schools buying Nintendo Wii excercise packs to fight obesity. Greg must be toned like a Greek god by now.
- Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with materialism and is quitting design.
Thanks Ross.
Quote of the Day:
Why is it that every time I think I know the answers, someone goes and changes the questions?
Agent Mulder, The X-Files
