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The timeline as best I can guess at it: The summer issue of The Skeptic featured an interview with skeptical supremo James Randi. Rupert Sheldrake wrote a letter critiquing the interview (or perhaps more specifically, what Randi said), for inclusion in the next issue of The Skeptic . Chris ...
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Something to whet your appetite in preparation for that humongous Thanksgiving dinner: Video of an orca devouring a white shark — Hmmm... Carcharodon .
Researchers find new species of chameleon in the darnedest of places...
I'm feeling حظيظ: Iraq's national museum to ...
Physical Science
I've been getting a lot of contact from readers asking why TDG isn't covering the ' Climategate ' story, in which email messages from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit were hacked and released via the Internet. Firstly, I have to note that the story was covered in Kat's news ...
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Global Warming
Sea change, see change.
Rabbits get HUD contact lenses . Watership Down rewritten by William Gibson.
Heroic squirrel mother rescues her baby from a dog, without tech.
Intel wants brain implants in our heads by 2020. A good year for cyberpunk .
Game of cat & mouse over simulated ...
Physical Science
Inspired by Greg's report of the magical phone application that detects that you don't have ESP unless you fork over more money to Apple, I made a free little program that does something similar. There is no money involved in this deal.
You can look at the Perceptron on qt-apps.org . ...
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Ten thousand readers a day, and barely a comment in sight. Y'all are a quiet bunch…
150 years ago today, a remarkable book was published. Hint: it has almost nothing to do with the Godly-design of the banana .
And 35 years ago today, more monkey business .
Big news of the day : Man in ...
Physical Science
Pixar rock. Pixar rock even harder when they do spoofs on Spielberg and other standards of the UFO/paranormal genre:
Check out Pixar's YouTube channel for more fun viewing and behind the scenes stuff. And don't miss Lifted , another Pixar film having fun with the alien abduction ...
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Ready for cognitive overload?
Faint writing found on the Shroud of Turin is typical of the Middle East in the first century.
Sky detectives: the forensic astronomers who are seeking clues to historical events embedded in artworks and literature.
New research sheds light on large-animal ...
Physical Science
Continuing on with rolling upgrades/changes to the site: at the bottom of the front page (only) there are now listings of the newest members, the users currently browsing the site, and the most popular content of the day. I may just sleep sometime soon though, so don't hold your breath for ...
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A Vatican scholar claims to have deciphered the "death certificate" imprinted on the Shroud of Turin, or Holy Shroud, a linen cloth revered by Christians and held by many to bear the image of the crucified Jesus.
Dr Barbara Frale, a researcher in the Vatican secret archives, said "I think I ...
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Best movie of the year for me. Hands down. Go watch it in a local cinema, or pick it up on DVD/BluRay (details beneath the trailer). Sam Rockwell in Duncan Jones' Moon :
It's one of those (unfortunately rare) movies that combine a brilliant storyline with a quality actor and ...
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Winter, spring, summer or fall, it’s always a Swell Season.
Think humankind is immune to extinction? Think again.
Mass extinctions and the open ocean.
Separating the quantum and classical worlds, one ripple at a time.
Solar Tsunamis. SSIE.
Fossils from the once swampy Sahara ...
Physical Science
An excerpt from a new book which investigates the paranormal nature of sleep paralysis experiences.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences , by Louis Proud ...
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All we are saying... is give prawns a chance.
Could a matte-black, sunflower-shaped 'starshade' , half a football field in diameter, help us to discover other Earths?
One debate to rule them all: the 'hobbit' controversy keeps evolving.
The Japanese are at the vanguard of cryptozoological ...
Physical Science
For those who have problems with the white background version of the Grail, I've finally put together a workable version of a dark-background theme. It's still not a finished version, and some aspects may either be ugly as sin, or quite simply broken - but as I said, overall there are enough ...
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It's always seemed a little ironic to me that Dr Jacques Vallee has not taken to blogging his thoughts on a regular basis. Ironic because the legendary ufologist is also a distinguished computer scientist, and was heavily involved in the development of the ARPANET back in the 70s. On top of ...
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I'm wearing my wolf pyjamas, waiting to see Where The Wild Things Are .
Ayahuasca visionary artist Pablo Amaringo has passed away.
A gallery of Pablo Amaringo's paintings available for purchase.
In Brazil, Amazon Indians are brutally murdered for their land.
Painted Maya pyramid depicts ...
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Rebellion is called for...
Satan, the great motivator .
Anti-war soldier faces 10 years in jail.
Smart hand: merging mind and machine.
Mozart and Orientalism.
Mystery dark flow extends towards edge of the universe.
Hypnosis has real effect.
Tuna body shies from fishing ban.
Wake ...
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We like lists because we don't want to die. Here's a long one.
German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light . Scientists, eh? They break everything.
Hawass : Beyonce is "a stupid person and she doesn't understand a thing."
Meanwhile Andrew Collins' new book ...
Physical Science
Remote viewing research pioneer Russell Targ isn't getting left behind by the march of technology - he's just released a new, free iPhone (and iPod touch) app named the ESP Trainer . Originally developed at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) as part of a NASA program, the trainer is meant to ...
