I agree with the Dalai Lama, sleep is the best meditation. If it wasn’t for the alarm, I could achieve enlightenment.
- New NASA images show Saturn’s polar hexagon ablaze with blue light.
- 2800-year-old monument to the soul discovered in Turkey. The country, that is.
- More info, with pics, on the 11000-year-old ruins of Gobekli Tepe.
- Excellent multimedia travel feature on the proud Maya of Chiapas.
- Palaeontologists piece together 460’000-year-old woolly rhinoceros skull.
- Skeletal remains of entire family found in 4600-year-old grave.
- Repairing a rare 2500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus shattered in a student protest almost four decades ago.
- German artist to rebuild Colossus of Rhodes as giant light sculpture. It will be destroyed by a giant mechanical elephant.
- Kangaroos are genetically similar to humans. Barbecued ‘roo is so delicious.
- GM crops to be grown in secret to prevent sabotage — from rival corporations no doubt, not just from environmental activists.
- UK Big Brother database now holds DNA of more than one million children.
- New research finds Dutch Calvinists notice embedded visual patterns quicker than their atheist compatriots.
- Unhappy people watch more tv. But news anchors are always smiling.
- Video: the extraordinary ability of lost pets to find their way home.
- More video: episode 1 of the New Zealand UFO files.
- It’s the 30th anniversary of NZ’s famous Kaikoura UFO sighting, and the crew of the plane at the centre of the encounter plan to recreate their flight on Dec 30th.
- New Phoenix Lights witness reluctantly comes forward.
Cheers Kat.
Quote of the Day:
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
