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Germany win, suckers!
Strange Attractor doesn’t usually cover sporting news, but this caught our attention… Paul, an octopus in Germany, has made international headlines with his perfect record predicting the outcome of Germany’s World Cup matches. On Tuesday, the cephalopod chose the national …
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The Squid Doctor
‘Why does Dr. [Oliver] Sacks love cephalopods so much? They’re very smart. He says, “Cuttlefish have enormous eyes, they are curious and, I think, even affectionate. One cannot help feeling that they have individuality and consciousness, and the basis of an inner …
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Ghost Box
A 70-year-old radio at a Scottish heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts featuring Winston Churchill and the music of Glen Miller. The Pye valve wireless at Montrose Air Station, a heritage centre that tells the story of the …
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Love Craft art show @ Observatory Room NYC
A LOVE CRAFT: Art Inspired by Monsters, Madness and Mythos June 11th – July 23rd, 2010 543 Union Street (at Nevins), Brooklyn, NY 11215 Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 3-6; Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 The “cosmic horror” of Howard Phillips …
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Medieval relics talk
Strange Attractor presents: MEDIEVAL RELICS WITH DR WILLIAM MACLEHOSE 20th May 2010 At The Little Shoppe of Horrors, 11 Mare St, London, UK (map) Doors at 6 pm, Talk commences at 7 pm Christian belief in the power of relics, …
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Electricity of the Mind
ELECTRICITY OF THE MIND The Anomalist 14 Guest Edited by Ian Simmons Articles include: Mike Jay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s fragmentary writings on the paranormal. Bryan Williams, Annalisa Ventola and Mike Wilson provide a basic primer for exploring temperature and …
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Area 51's flying gorilla
An interesting article about Area 51 veterans finally emerging in public includes this wonderful image: Barnes believes the Air Force and the “Agency” didn’t mind the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested. …
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Glasgow's metal-toothed vampire panic
When Pc Alex Deeprose was called to Glasgow’s sprawling Southern Necropolis on the evening of 23 September 1954, he expected to be dealing with a simple case of vandalism. Titles like Tales from the Crypt were accused of corrupting young …
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River Fleet overspill tour: 27 March
Following the success of last weekend’s walks, Tom Bolton (above) has announced an overflow London’s Lost Rivers, The Fleet tour for Saturday 27th March, 2.30pm-5pm ‘This walk unpeels the London layers to trace the course of the lost river, rediscovering …
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The Big Itch at The Little Shoppe of Horrors
Following the January Salon, Strange Attractor will be hosting regular events at Viktor Wynd Fine Art aka The Little Shoppe of Horrors. We’re very happy therefore to present the first in this new series: THE BIG ITCH Thursday 25 March …
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He's not the messiah…
“It is absurd to be put in this position, when I’m just some bloke,” Mr. Patel said. A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed …
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