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Levitation news
Physicists have ‘solved’ mystery of levitation By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, The Daily Telegraph In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible. Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of …
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Natural emphasis
From the BBC: Orangutan communication resembles a game of charades, a study suggests. Researchers from St Andrews University have shown that the animals intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across… researchers set up a situation where …
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Deep brain stimulation
Pioneer brain implants allow minimally conscious patient to eat, drink and talk Ian Sample, Guardian, Thursday August 2 2007 A man who spent more than six years in a near-vegetative state after a horrific assault has made a dramatic recovery …
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Reality Hacking at Reality Sandwich
Many great claims are made for magick, almost exclusively by magicians and those who fear them. Andy says, “After you’ve done it long enough, and you start to manipulate things, you get the feeling you are part of a bigger …
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Oscar the death cat
Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients’ Deaths, Jul 26 AP PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their …
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Phone mast allergy 'in the mind'
From the BBC Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says. Dozens of people who believed the masts trigger symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could …
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No brainer
Scans reveal a fluid-filled cavity in the brain of a normal man. Nature 20 July 2007, by Louis Buckley Three years ago, a 44-year-old man was admitted to hospital in Marseille, France, complaining of weakness in his left leg. He …
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Erik Davis & M John Harrison vs Grok & Raagnagrok
[Raagnagrok photo: Al Robertson] Two special events coming up featuring Strange Attractor favourites Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and The Visionary State, and M John Harrison, author of The Course of the Heart, Light, Nova Swing and more. On Saturday …
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Water, water, everywhere
Astronomers detect water in distant planet’s atmosphere Ian Sample, Thursday July 12, 2007 The Guardian UK astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of an enormous, fiery planet that circles a distant star far beyond our own solar system. The …
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Net Futures?
In the Blink of a Byte, Future Becomes Past July 9, 2007, New York Times. By NOAM COHEN The Internet can seem an all-knowing, mysterious oracle. Type in a question, hit a button and an answer magically appears. Yet oracles …
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Weird Life
Scientists Urge a Search for Life Not as We Know It July 7, 2007, By CARL ZIMMER New York Times A panel of scientists convened by the country’s leading scientific advisory group says the hunt for extraterrestrial life should be …
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The New Age of Ignorance
A fine article by Tim Adams in The Observer asks why it is that science is simultaneously perceived as boring and childish by so many people; he speaks to Natalie Angier and John Brockman, two of the people who are …
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