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Not with a bang…
No, it’s not the batteries running out on a Casio VL Tone: this is the sound of the hottest material ever made in a laboratory. The fireball of fireball of quarks and gluons is trillions of degrees hot and exists in conditions …
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Understanding denialism
Here’s a hypothesis: denial is largely a product of the way normal people think. Most denialists are simply ordinary people doing what they believe is right. If this seems discouraging, take heart. There are good reasons for thinking that denialism …
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A black death, from horizon to horizon
The full, awful extent of the BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is caught in this laconically-narrated fly-over. Via IO9
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Turkish UFOs were IMOs?
[NB 1 May 2010, a good explanation for these objects can be found here] One of my favourite UFO videos of recent years – the sinister looking objects filmed off the coast of Kumburgaz, just west of Istanbul in 2008 …
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Crop circles, lasers and mystery mathematicians
Crop Circle season is almost upon us. Plans are being drawn, fences are being strengthened, black boxes are being turned on to check that the blinky lights still work. Over at Boing Boing Jacques Vallée, the brilliant French computer scientist …
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Electricity of the Mind
ELECTRICITY OF THE MIND The Anomalist 14 Guest Edited by Ian Simmons Articles include: Mike Jay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s fragmentary writings on the paranormal. Bryan Williams, Annalisa Ventola and Mike Wilson provide a basic primer for exploring temperature and …
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Nikola Teshla (with pineapple chunks)
Drunk History: Nikola Tesla Duncan Trussell drinks six cans of beer and half a bottle of abshinthe then narratesh the amazing history of Nikola Teshla… complete with hazy re-enactments shtarring amongst othersh Crishpin Glover… Yesh, thatsh really Crishpin Glover! Thanksh Mike …
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Area 51's flying gorilla
An interesting article about Area 51 veterans finally emerging in public includes this wonderful image: Barnes believes the Air Force and the “Agency” didn’t mind the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested. …
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The Big Itch at The Little Shoppe of Horrors
Following the January Salon, Strange Attractor will be hosting regular events at Viktor Wynd Fine Art aka The Little Shoppe of Horrors. We’re very happy therefore to present the first in this new series: THE BIG ITCH Thursday 25 March …
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The only good alien
…is a prop alien. Sigh, another one bites the dust. The image left is a behind-the-scenes shot from the 1992 TV movie Intruders (based, I believe, on the genre-forming non-fiction alien abduction book by Budd Hopkins). The image was found …
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Were 1997's Phoenix lights a Psyops job?
The 13 March 1997 Phoenix incident doesn’t get a mention in Mirage Men, but this article by a journalist who spent months investigating the case for Readers’ Digest raises some valid questions. The lights certainly belonged to something/s, though I …
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Yoofows in the news
As my book Mirage Men (the dummy cover – not the image left! – and subtitle will be changing soon) finally makes its first steps towards publication in July 2010, the MOD announce that not only are they closing their …
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