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Ken Hollings: From Gameboy to Armageddon
Ken Holling’s BBC Radio Three documentary on the role of video games in shaping modern warfare is now available via BBC iPlayer. Via Ken: contributions from Tim Lenoir, Ed Halter and Tom Chatfield on the relationship of games and simulations …
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Shroom's Andy Letcher interviewed
The time is right for psychedelia to undergo a critical and reflexive self-examination. Quite understandably given the legal situation, it has adopted a defensive attitude, seeing itself as a persecuted and misunderstood minority which, nonetheless, possesses privileged access to the …
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The word in the cave
Do some cave art markings represent a Paleolithic alphabet? I’m not entirely sure why we should be surprised that early humans, who could after all paint stunning and complex artworks, were also capable of communicating visually, but hey… What’s really …
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Expanded Minds: Andy Sharp & Erik Davis
Andy Sharp, aka the English Heretic talks magick and neuroscience with Erik Davis on his excellent Expanding Mind radio show.
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How to save the planet… leave it!
How-To save the economy! How-To save the planet! How-To build a UFO! Thanks Ken Hollings
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Puzzling Norwegian light spiral /update
UPDATE 3: OK, forget that last explanation, here’s the TRUTH from exopolitics.com: ‘… two researchers have independently posited that HAARP, a space-based weapon of mass destruction one of whose antenna fields is close to the site of the Norwegian spiral …
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Not an authority on anything
This year saw the passing of the iconic fortean writer and adventurer John Keel. As a tribute to his friend, Doug Skinner, writer, musician, SAJ contributor and all-round renaissance man has set up a web site to gather up the …
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Waterboarding with Jacques Vallée
As a child of World War Two who remembers its limitless horrors, my revulsion at the practices of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib was so great that it took me a while to realize the more positive implications: if our henchmen …
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Gyrus: War & The Noble Savage
SA Pal and Dreamflesh guru Gyrus has just uploaded an excellent talk he recently gave at London’s October Gallery. Based on his new bookette, War & the Noble Savage, the presentation queries currently prevalent ideas about violence amongst ‘uncivilised’ peoples, …
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Archetuthis to go
Carrying the remains of a roughly 30-foot (9-meter) giant squid in her jaws, a female sperm whale, with a calf at her side, swims near the surface off Japan’s Bonin Islands (map)in the northwestern Pacific. Taken on October 15, this …
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UFO Disclosure: The story so far
Spanish ufologist Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos has put together a sober and timely summary of UFO information officially released by the world’s governments. This is not to be confused with the American ‘Disclosure’ movement that seeks to have its beliefs about an …
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Military Myths
A short piece by myself on myth-making in the military has been published over at Guardian Online. There are of course several other stories I’d like to have told, but space was tight! The site is running a series of articles …
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