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The Bennington Triangle and the Man-Eating Stone of Glastonbury Mountain
There’s been a lot of focus lately, on weird happenings in faraway lands. The middle-east, Russia, Asia, even Australia, which from a Can-Am-centric perspective (I’m Canadian) might provide…
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Near-Death Experiences of the Blind; How Does That Work?
Near-Death-Experiences, depending on which researcher you listen to, are nearly universal across the globe. People in every country, from every culture, with every belief system and background report…
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Scientists Track Penguins Using Pictures of their Poop
Ecologists, and their historic counterparts, naturalists, study the world. They study everything in it, from animals and plants, to climate, to weather, to oceanography, and even tectonics and…
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Canadian Dentist Plans to Clone John Lennon, From a Tooth
People collect some weird things. I collect books, and tobacco pipes and old bottles. I know a guy who collects guitars, and my late Mother collected bells. I’d…
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The Blood Falls: A Horror Movie and an Astrobiological Wet-Dream
Scientists on an expedition in the Austrian Alps, stumble across a stunningly horrific scene in the glacial mountain tops. Dubbed Blood Glacier, a font of putrid blood-like liquid…
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Was the Legend of Utsuro-bune a Close Encounter of the Third Kind?
In 1803, a strange vessel supposedly washed ashore in Japan carrying a mysterious foreign woman, an unknown language, and a closely guarded box. More than two centuries later,…
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NASA Playing Politics, Cuts Ties with Russia – Quite Unscientific
With everything that’s going on in the world today, it’s become exceedingly difficult to really grasp the truth behind many issues. Take, for example, the ongoing and apparently…
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The Quest for Immortality: Would You Want to Live Forever?
A big part of our culture, the global culture that is, lies in the process of aging, of growing old. It’s difficult to edify, just how much of…
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Where is Everyone: Can Moore’s Law Solve the Fermi Paradox?
Can we measure the probability that life in the cosmos develops only so far before fizzling out? Is there a way to quantify the evolutionary potential of biological…
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Is the Lycurgus Cup Evidence of Roman-Era Nanotechnology?
Glass is, in the modern world, nearly ubiquitous. It’s everywhere. Glass has been one of the most useful inventions ever made, though invention isn’t really the right word,…