Dream out loud.
- Quarry companies in Western Australia destroyed over 900 aboriginal rock engravings, some over 12000 years old, with government approval.
- More UFO sightings in the Texan skies. Bill Knell summarises.
- A book review of The Tujunga Canyon Contacts by Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, an updated edition with new chapters investigating the classic alien abduction case (Amazon US & UK).
- Marc Miller searches for the legendary Buru lizard in India’s northeastern Himalayas (Part 1 of 5), inspired by Loren Coleman’s Cryptozoology A to Z (Amazon US or from Cryptozoology.com).
- This weekend Bhutan’s Dharma King will be empowered as the Druk Gyalpo.
- Inca nobility imported servants to maintain Machu Picchu.
- Protecting Catal Huyuk, Anatolia’s 8000-year-old city, from weather.
- Rituals held at Viking gravesites were the beginnings of the Norse sagas.
- Vikings brushed their beards before raping and pillaging.
- Alien fish have been caught in Swedish waters, puzzling anglers and experts.
- What’s the mystery creature lurking in the waters of Kouris Dam in Cyprus?
- Mexico City’s ‘water monster’ — the Axolotl salamander, not RPJ — is almost extinct.
- Australia’s Tasmanian Devil will be extinct in 10 years.
- Chimps compile Nixon-style ‘enemies list’. I always carry a banana.
- Rebels have taken over a park in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is home to the majority of the world’s last mountain gorillas.
- Henry Thoreau endorsed civil disobedience… and dabbled in climatology?
- What the public — and many MIT students — don’t get about climate change.
- Home is where the hydrogen and solar power is.
- Libby Purves overcomes her allergy to Dawkins and weighs in on the fairy tales vs science debate. Why can’t we all just live happily ever after?
Thanks Kat.
Quote of the Day:
“We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.”
Carl Jung
