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Listening to Electric Fish
No, not a new synth band, but the Elephant Nose fish, Gnathonemus petersii. The article at Sci-toys describes the electrical organs in the fish’s tail and how to mic one up to create uber-minimalist electronic rhythms. Just add reverb and echo to taste! …
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Listen Up: Friday 29 may, BBC Radio 4
Written by Glen Neath. Directed by Boz Temple Morris Music by Howard Jacques Friday 14.15pm BBC Radio 4 The true story of Italian radio enthusiasts who intercept transmissions from early Russian space missions and listen in as the earliest men …
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UFOs: The Climate Solution?
One of the newest energy lobbyists claims he has the answer to climate change: spaceships. The government has in its possession “extraterrestrial vehicles,” lobbyist Stephen Bassett said. As in flying saucers. Imagine the power source, he said, behind a 30-foot …
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Gone Fishing
A fish that has been reported to cause LSD-like hallucinations when eaten has been found in the English Channel, many hundreds of miles away from its normal habitat. The fish, Sarpa salpa, is commonly caught off the coast of South …
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Psi-verts and psychic piracy
SAJ3 contributor and pal parapsychologist Dr David Luke has been declared Graham Hancock’s author of the month at his web site, thanks to this article. I woke up this morning with a psychic advert left lingering in my dreaming mind. It …
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The Battle for Wardenclyffe
The New York Times reports on a fight to preserve the site of Nikola Tesla’s wondrous dream… and his great undoing. In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers meant to relay through the air …
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John Michell RIP
John Michell, the visionary author of The View Over Atlantis, The Flying Saucer Vision, City of Revelation and many more died early this morning, 24 April 2009, aged 76. John was central in introducing ancient notions of the sacred into …
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The Ullage Group: Medi-Vaudeville, NYC
The Ullage Group offers its fourth afternoon of cultural curiosities, “Medi-Vaudeville.” The title refers to the book that Charles Fort planned to write, during his final days in the hospital; for, this time around, it’s all medical. Doug Skinner and Dr. Mamie …
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Arik Roper's Mushroom Magick
SA pal and Journal illustrator Arik Roper’s first book is about to hit the shelves in the US. Mushroom Magick features beautiful paintings of over 90 species of psilocybine-containing fungi from all over the world. It’s stunningly produced and Arik’s …
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Kunstformen der Natur
Ohh, the Wellcome Library blog announces that they’ve acquired a full set of Haeckel’s beautiful Kunstformen der Natur (artforms in nature). It consists of one hundred colour plates which are intended to justify Haeckel’s adaptation of Goethe’s “typological” biology. The “typologies” …
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Mindbender General
A BBC Radio documentary about William Sargant, respected psychiatrist and author of Battle for the Mind (1957), one of the first books about mind control, the dangers of which the author was a firm believer in. In 1976 Sargant would …
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Navy cold fusion?
Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is “significant” evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community. The scientists on Monday described what they called the first clear …
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