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Remote Control Humans

Via Jack Sergant Remote Control Device ‘Controls’ Humans By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer 13 minutes ago ATSUGI, Japan – We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes …

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Ancient forest furniture assembly instructions

A nice animation higlighting Greenpeace’s current campaign, against logging in endangered rainforests. Via Dave Walsh

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The Kraken Wakes

OK, after the cephalopods walking on two “legs” come more things that just aren’t right at the bottom of the sea. The walking sea lilly… (.mov file). God help us if these things ever discover the world above. “The humble …

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US UFO Sightings Googlemapped

At last, a sensible use of Googlemaps! Using UFO data from National UFO Reporting Center From the site: Q: But UFOs aren’t real? A: Maybe so, however the sighting reports are real. Q: So aren’t you tracking sighting reports on …

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Mumbai needs vultures!

Parsi tradition dying out for lack of vultures Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi Thursday October 6, 2005 It is one the most poignant images in India. Muslin-wrapped mourners carry the dead up a leafy hill to a temple, conducting an …

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Weather Wars?

Forecaster leaves job to pursue weather theories By Jana Peterson and John O’Connell – Journal writers From the Idaho State Journal POCATELLO – To the rest of the country, Scott Stevens is the Idaho weatherman who blames the Japanese Mafia …

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Ghosts of New Orleans

Video clip from CBS 5 USA Interesting both for its phenomenological aspects – shades, spirits, coincidences – and for the Revelation of just how deeply immersed in Fundamentalist Christian superstition the soldiers interviewed here are: Soldiers spooked by New Orleans …

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Italian Medium Locates Body

(Though how, of course, is another matter…) Debate rages as medium finds body in lake John Hooper in Rome Thursday September 15, 2005 The Guardian In a country where plaster Madonnas weep blood, it is only to be expected that …

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Sonic 'Lasers' Head to Flood Zone

Sonic ‘Lasers’ Head to Flood Zone By Xeni Jardin Story from Wired (some nice

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After the storm, the tribes emerge

French Quarter Holdouts Create ‘Tribes’ Sep 4, 11:28 PM (ET) By ALLEN G. BREED NEW ORLEANS (AP) – In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming “tribes” and …

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Life After Doomsday

Couple offer lessons in life after doomsday Paul Brown, environment correspondent Tuesday August 30, 2005 from The Guardian While world leaders squabble about whether climate change is real and what action to take, one couple has retreated to rural Wales …

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More animals join the learning circle

New Scientist Betsy Mason KILLER whales and chimpanzees both pass on “traditions” to other members of their group, according to two separate studies of feeding behaviour. The findings add to evidence that cultural learning is widespread among animals. One study …

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