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UFOs over London!
From the Daily Telegraph: Derek Burdon was left stunned when he took a scenic pictures [sic] of the UK capital then noticed four flying saucers on the far right of the picture. Mr Burdon took the photographs 16 floors up …
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Strategic warfare in chimps
[some of the rocks stockpiled by Santino] When Santino the chimpanzee started pelting zoo visitors with stones, his keepers were mystified. Not that they were surprised by his displays of aggression — the 31-year-old chimp is, after all, a dominant …
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Howard Menger's Final Journey
Howard Menger, one of the most charming and colourful of the golden era UFO contactees, died on 25 February at his Florida home. He was 87. Reports Greg Bishop: …in 1956, [Menger] appeared on the Long John Nebel radio show, …
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The Turk and other curiosities
Fantastic photographs from continental anatomical collections by James Mundie. Over at New Scientist. Thanks Gnat Ward!
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DIY Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia seems to underpin some savants’ enhanced memory and numerical skills. The hope is that a better understanding of its origins could help to explain savant abilities – and perhaps even shine some light on whether we are all capable of …
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Gestationary imprinting?
Or even a step towards a concept analogous to Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic fields? WHAT was your mother up to before you were even a twinkle in her eye? You might not think it matters, but it seems that in mice at least, …
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The Pantheon as a sundial
Not as elaborate or elegant as Walter Murch’s notion of the Pantheon as a repository for ancient heliocentric astronomical knowledge, but still plenty interesting: During the six months of winter, the light of the noon sun traces a path across …
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Scared to Death?
A Charlotte, N.C., man was charged with first-degree murder of a 79-year-old woman whom police said he scared to death. In an attempt to elude cops after a botched bank robbery, the Associated Press reportsthat 20-year-old Larry Whitfield broke into and …
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Twins not Mengele's children
While this is probably good news for the people of Linha São Pedro, we must confess to a tiny sense of disappointment that the Boys from Brazil was just fiction after all. Brazilian scientists have rejected claims that the Nazi doctor …
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Haunting the quantum field
This is starting to sound like the premise for an updated version of Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape (1972). “Spooky action at a distance” is how Albert Einstein famously derided the concept of quantum entanglement—where objects can become linked and instantaneously influence …
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The Holographic Universe v2
Those of us who have thrilled to Michael Talbot’s classic of meta-fortean speculation, The Holographic Universe or the denser work of David Bohm will be happy to hear that the idea is rippling its way back into focus. This from New …
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Swamp Gas on Mars! v2…
After all the hooplah yesterday about this new Mars announcement, including my own over-excited meanderings – preserved for posterity below – here’s a sober account of the methane plumes of Mars from New Scientist Methane gas in the Martian atmosphere is …
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