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News Briefs 08-09-2014

Fresh Fortean freakishness and futile futurism:

Thanks to Cat, John and Rick for links

Quote of the Day:

Sad species. Poor Owl.

Noam Chomski

  1. Gunung Padang
    Quote: “Danny Hilman and his team now believe that the entire hill is an artificial pyramid of incredible antiquity. If correct, this would make it the oldest built structure anywhere in the world.”

    Correction: (known) structure…

  2. DNA Doesn’t Prove Jack…….
    The guy with the alleged shawl from one of the Ripper’s victims hasn’t proved the identity of the killer.

    While true that he collected DNA that matches both the victim, and an individual on a list of “suspects”, it doesn’t stand to reason that the DNA from the suspect proves that he is the killer. All it proves is that he had sex with the victim.

    Reading the article, it turns out that the suspect’s DNA comes from semen found on the shawl. being that the victim was a known prostitute, it isn’t at all hard to imagine how the DNA got onto that scarf.

    It’s an interesting idea, but it most certainly ISN’T proof of the identity of Jack the Ripper.

  3. Puppet Master? Or just more of Hofstadter’s ants
    the puppet-masters that drive mice to cats and insects up the stalk to spread spores are only the spectacular (and gruesome) special cases of a generalize principle of ‘mystical’ microbial communications; something similar is organizing itself to devour the remains of the Titanic, and, really, we see this phenomenon all over the natural world — my premise that is that this phenomenon may even explain our magical ability to see and comprehend phenomena in the first place.

    Anyone remember Douglas Hofstadter’s anthill?

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