Will it be ‘deja vu all over again’ for NASA?
- Ancient stone map of Rome finally yielding its secrets.
- Ancient quasi-biblical texts written by Jews, Christians and pagans are to be translated for the first time.
- Was there a golden age of linguistic perfection?
- Archaeologists discover Jacobites almost won at Culloden.
- Decline and fall? Or just making off with Constantine’s head? It does look a bit worn, though you’d expect that of something 1700 years old.
- Why New Cadiz, chartered in 1528, is now a ghost town.
- Roman motorway secrets unveiled. So that’s why you Brit’s drive on the ‘wrong side’ of the road.
- Philip Gardiner’s The Secret History of King Arthur and Robin Hood.
- American tribal nations’ ancient prophecies are being fulfilled in modern world.
- NASA says Discovery launch was a mistake.
- Foam might have struck shuttle.
- NASA grounds shuttle fleet.
- NASA faces debris crisis.
- Cassini captures weird radio broadcasts from Saturn.
- Bacteria found to assess immune system’s threat before activating genes that turn them from harmless bowel dwellers into deadly invaders of the bloodstream.
- Coral genome found to be as large as human genome.
- Scientists discover genes that could unlock secret to longer life and preventing disease.
- MIT develops ‘smart bomb’ cancer treatment.
- Parenting Jurassic style: the softer side of dinosaurs revealed.
- Ignoring scientists who said it wasn’t possible, a pesticide-resistant GM crop has interbreed to produce Britain’s first ‘superweed’.
- New study on fish diversity unearths an alarming trend.
- Vital marine species under threat.
- Seismic Study Shakes Up Plate Tectonics.
- Submerged volcanos pose tsunami threat.
- Francis Crick explores the neurology of consciousness.
- Humans found to have a “robust” capacity to learn and retain new information unconsciously.
- Giant disc of water ice found near Martian north pole.
- Chandra’s Neon Discovery Solves Solar Paradox.
- An asteroid, headed our way.
- Researchers Probe the Language of Bats.
- After record rains of more than 3 feet in one day, India flood toll reaches 800.
- Millions in aid money is wasted planting trees in dry countries.
- Planting trees may create deserts.
- A Stake Through the Heart of the World.
- Elite Thought and Iraqi Prisoner Abuse (including a definition of the four warrior classes) by the author of The Hidden Face of Terrorism: The Dark Side of Social Engineering, from Antiquity to September 11. Amazon US & UK.
- UN to expand crackdown on terror.
- Keeping up-to-date on newspeak: ‘war on terror’ is no more.
- America’s Truth Deficit.
- IRA promises (again) to give up guns and violence: Will there really be peace in N. Ireland after 36 years of maiming and killing?
- As NHS patients are on 4-week waiting list for potentially life-saving CT scans, hospital scanners, and the staff who operate them, are being hired out to oil companies to make 3-D images of rock core samples.
- Warning: graphic content. A vast paedophile ring has been jailed in France.
- Campaigners hope to prove ‘Satanic killers’ were wrongly convicted.
- Thousands flock to Italian church after a number of parishioners claim to have filmed a miraculous walking statue of the Madonna with their video phones. Videos have been turned over to the local bishop.
- From Myth to Man: a review of Tom Harpur’s The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light. Amazon US & UK.
- DNA tests squelch proof of Canadian Sasquatch sighting.
- The 5th Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, which will take place in Jefferson, Oct. 14 – 16, has an impressive line-up of speakers.
- Dr. Jeff Meldrum’s evaluation of alleged Sasquatch footprints and their inferred functional morphology. (see Meldrum’s bio at the Bigfood Conference link)
- Former Navy flight engineer sights huge cigar-shaped UFO near Exeter, NH.
- Atomic Saucers: Unidentified or Identified Flying Objects?
- H.P. Lovecraft and the Occult Legend of The Necronomicon: An Interview with the authors of Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft’s Legend. Amazon US & UK.
- Late addition: Some fabulous crop circles were created in Early and Late July.
Quote of the Day:
“The DNA profile of the hair sample we received from the Yukon earlier this week clearly matches reference DNA profiles from North American bison. However, if you’re a believer, we haven’t disproved there is a Big Foot out there. I think it’s highly unlikely that the sasquatch exists, however, it’s not really scientific to disbelieve anything either. You must always maintain an objective mind.”
David Coltman, wildlife geneticist at the University of Alberta
