News Briefs 20-11-2012GregTuesday, November 20th3 Comments2 min read When the world ends, we can only hope the soundtrack is *Shels… Researchers crack a 250-year-old code, and find a secret society inside. SETI gets a $3.5 million funding boost from a technology pioneer. Are Mars rover scientists sitting on a big secret? Is a second sun to blame for the tilt in the Earth’s orbit? Injecting radioactive chemicals into the brains of spirit mediums. For science! Bring on the quantum internet. First teleportation from one macroscopic object to another. The rise and fall of the UCLA parapsychology laboratory. Legend of the UFO field passes away. Kung-fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists. Should we be concerned that some Skeptics do not seem to understand the meaning of scepticism? Sam Harris says that if he had a magic wand and could get rid of either rape or religion, he would choose religion. Science can be a religion too. Canadian believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade tells scientists that he is not in any pain via a new brain-scanning technique. Beware the fire tornado. Is China building a Stargate? Bizarre muppet-like beast discovered, and shot dead, in Namibia. Or is it just a person with a genetic condition? Image of the day: four monkeys hitch a ride on the back of a giant rodent. Quote of the Day: I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them. Robert Anton Wilson