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Far Out & the end of science (again)
A nice piece in The Independent by comic Rob Newman about a variant of the singularity that he’s termed Technology Collapse: ‘500 years from now, Galileo and Kepler study antique technology – SatNav, electrocardiograms, hair tongs – trying to …
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Inside Silbury Hill
The souls of Silbury Hill are bared in burial mound dig By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent The Indepnendent, 25 October 2007 Archaeologists are unlocking the secrets of Silbury Hill, one of Britain’s greatest historical mysteries. Researchers have long been mystified …
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Insect surveillance?
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs. By Rick Weiss Tuesday, October 9, 2007;Washington Post Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. “I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look …
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Digital forensics
An interesting interview with Hany Farid of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire USA, a specialist in uncovering digital forgeries. “Not long ago, researchers from South Korea had to retract papers published in Science because the photographs used to prove that …
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Born Under Sputnik, Thursday 4 October
This week sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, and even if Telstar got the better theme tune, we still believe it’s worth commemorating. That’s why at 8pm this Thursday, 4 October, Resonance FM will be broadcasting …
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Silent Guardian & mission creep
I’m loathe to drive traffic through to the Daily Mail, but this is a good article about Silent Guardian, the public face of microwave beam weapons, and surely just the tip of the iceberg of what’s going on at …
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Germs in spaaacccce
An interesting follow up to last week’s sickness-inducing meteorite. Salmonella more virulent in space, study suggests Food poisoning bacteria become super-virulent in space, according to a study of salmonella that spent 12 days orbiting the Earth on the space shuttle …
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The pong from outer space
Monday 17 September (AFP) Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday. Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and …
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A kilogram's not what it used to be
Kilogram prototype mysteriously loses weight Official reference shed 50 micrograms compared to its copies By Jamey Keaten, The Associated Press, Sept. 12, 2007 PARIS – A kilogram just isn’t what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the …
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Sheldrake vs the skeptics
An impassioned foreward by Rupert Sheldrake to a new book called Parapsychology and The Skeptics by Chris Carter: “From my own experience of talking to scientists and giving seminars in scientific institutions, dogmatic skeptics are a minority within the scientific …
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Deborah Blum Interview
Greg Taylor over at the excellent Daily Grail, has posted an interview with Deborah Blum, author of Ghost Hunters, a history of the early days of the Society for Psychical Research, and the scientists, like William James, who were attracted …
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Time Travellin' Man
Today, man is successfully probing deep into the mysteries of the universe. Can he penetrate the greatest mystery of all – time itself? One young boy, growing up in the 1950s in the Bronx in New York, was especially interested …
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