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Tunguska's Century!
June 30, 2008: The year is 1908, and it’s just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will …
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Messengers of Deception
Exciting news from Greg Taylor of The Daily Grail – a new edition of Jacques Vallee’s 1979 classic of paranoid ufology, Messengers of Deception. This re-issue has been lightly revised by the good Dr Vallee and is part of a …
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Solstice Moon
This weekend sees Summer solstice and an almost full Moon. But why does it look so big? NASA have a good page discussing this illusion, which is still keeping scientists guessing. Is it a trick of perspective – akin …
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Cold Fusion is back!
Earlier this week, Yoshiaki Arata, a retired physics professor at Osaka University, Japan, gave a successful demonstration of cold fusion to an audience of physicists: From a Japanese eyewitness writing on the Physicsworld blog: “Arata’s demonstration…was successfully done. There came …
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Incense and peppermints
Incense is psychoactive: Scientists identify the biology behind the ceremony Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. In a new study …
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MOD UFO files released
The British Ministry of Defence has made public the first eight of about 200 previously secret UFO files. You can get them here, along with an accompanying research guide by Dr David Clarke, whose team are primarily responsible for convincing …
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Microlithomania: New York City
The Ullage Group presents its second afternoon of oddities, at Jalopy Theatre, Sunday 18 May at 3:00. This one is called “Microlithomania,” and is devoted to strange stones smaller than megaliths. We will have mini-talks on ringing rocks, stone stars, …
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CIA: telling us how to think
The CIA has made available its guide to the psychology of intelligence data analysis. The cover features a tasteful Rorschach blot of an eagle… no, wait, it’s a skull… or an elephant. Or could it be… oh my god… Intelligence …
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Up from the depths
A fantastic blog from the Te Papa museum in NZ, home to the recently defrosted colossal squid, with a beachball-sized eye (all the better for seeing you with) and a 4cm beak that will reduce you to calamari in seconds. …
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The Universe as colossal brain
Left: Neurons in a (mouse) brain. Right: The universe with illuminated galaxies, simulated by a team of astrophysicists. From Clifford Pickover’s Reality Carnival The universe is a mouse?
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Geomagnetism and depression
Many animals can sense the Earth’s magnetic field, so why not people, asks Oleg Shumilov of the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia. Shumilov looked at activity in the Earth’s geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found …
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'Expelled' eviscerated
Expelled is a new American documentary championing the cause of the Intelligent Design movement. It is already making waves in the blogosphere and could repeat the success of the What the bleep series of inspirational newage science docs. With a …
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