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Proof of Aliens Could Come Within 25 Years, Scientist Says
2010 08 20 Proof of extraterrestrial intelligence could come within 25 years, an astronomer who works on the search said Sunday. |
Long Lost Oil Found in form of 22 mile long underwater plume
2010 08 20 A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill. The most worrisome part is the slow pace at which the oil is breaking down in the cold, 40-degree ...
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Mind-Controlling Parasites Date Back Millions of Years
2010 08 18 Mind control by parasite sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but not only have scientists revealed that it is real across a range of animals — including perhaps humans — they now even have fossil evidence suggesting it has taken place for millions of years. An unnerving variety of parasites have evolved the ability to control the brains of victims ...
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Mysteries Abound In WTC Ship Remains
2010 08 18 On July 12 the remains of an 18th-century ship were found buried 20 feet below street level at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The question is -- how did they get there? Nobody knows for sure -- yet. And even though there are timbers from the front half of the ship, nobody can ...
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What aliens would really be like
2010 08 16 If we ever make contact with aliens, they might be more interested in learning about Van Gogh and Bach than Einstein or Newton, scientists said Saturday. Art may attract aliens more than academics because any extraterrestrial civilization that we are able to get in touch with is likely to be much older than us and more technically advanced, researchers said here ...
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Brain's Wiring: More Like the Internet Than a Pyramid?
2010 08 15 New research suggests that the distributed network of the Internet may be a better model for the human brain than a top-down hierarchy. The brain has been mapped to the smallest fold for at least a century, but still no one knows how all the parts talk to each other. A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences answers ...
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Remains of John the Baptist found in Bulgaria?
2010 08 15 John the Baptist, right, as depicted in this 14th century painting at the National Gallery, London Archaeologists in Bulgaria claim they have found remains of John the Baptist while excavating the site of a 5th century monastery on the Black Sea island of Sveti Ivan. A reliquary – a container for holy relics – discovered last week under the monastery's basilica was ...
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Earth & Space |
Full Moon in Pisces with the Sun in Virgo - August 24
Allow yourself deep relaxation in a tranquil pool of nothing-in-particular. This Piscean Full Moon is a meditative state—relax into it and let the dream envelop you. Let chaos take over your brain. Dissolve into nothingness. Then, in that nothingness, a somethingness will emerge, and with it emerges the natural desire to distinguish specific things from the chaos. Allow yourself a Virgoan organizing frenzy to help clarify what has arisen from the chaos.
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Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe versus the Volcano is a fable which opens with somewhat surrealistic scenes of the dehumanization of Joe Bank's job and work environment (at a company whose product rather literally screws people) with imagery that seems to have been inspired by the classic film Metropolis. Joe is diagnosed with an incurable disease, quits his dehumanizing job, and accepts an offer to briefly "live like a king, die like a man" - but to fulfill his agreement he must willingly jump into a live volcano on the island of Waponi Woo in order to appease the volcano god.
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