Author: Martin J. Clemens

  • OK, here it comes.  A rant some of you may have been expecting.  Any of my regular readers are well aware of my interest in the mind-body question.  And in that regard, some big news has hit the airwaves in…

    AWARE Study Results Finally Published: Does Not Prove Life After Death
  • You may have seen headlines over the last few days from scientific media outlets espousing the conclusions of a recent study on ice loss in Antarctica.  The accompanying articles explained that the rapid decline in Antarctic ice over the last…

    Antarctic Ice Loss Has Caused Gravitational Fluctuations
  • “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t…

    Think You Know Everything About Water? Well, You Don’t
  • The average human will spend one-third of their lifetime asleep.  In most cases that equates to approximately 20 years of your life that you will spend in an altered state of consciousness, experiencing some kind of dreamscape, scarcely aware of…

    Why Do We Sleep? Science Doesn’t Know
  • A new megalithic site has been found in the near east and it seems to predate the pyramids of Egypt, and even Stonehenge. A pretty exciting statement in any sense, but let’s not get ahead of things. The site in…

    New Megalithic Site Could Steal Title for Oldest Stone Monument
  • Have you ever wondered what sound looks like? Most of us are keenly aware that you can’t see sound.  We understand that sound is nothing more than complex patterns or waves of air compression, travelling over a distance and ultimately…

    Cymatics and the Story of Singing Sand
  • Suicide and depression have been at the forefront of our minds of late.  What with the tragic loss of beloved comedian and actor Robin Williams in early August.  Fans the world over mourn not only for the loss, but also…

    The Suicide Forest and Overtoun Bridge: What Makes Them So Deadly?
  • One of the things we take for granted in this age of technology and science, is the medical knowledge that has been hard-won to the toll of billions of deaths over the centuries. The world’s respective medical establishments are advancing…

    The Quantum Effect of Anaesthesia: A New Theory of Consciousness
  • In the scientific world, nothing is certain.  It may seem like some, or even many scientists are staunchly certain about their work, but it’s important to remember that scientists are human, whereas science itself is impartial.  If the scientific community…

    New Evidence Challenges Out of Africa Theory – How Old is Humanity?
  • Have you ever been called two-faced?  It’s kind of a nasty thing to be labelled, as are most labels.  Of course, it means that a person says one thing at one time, while saying the opposite at another, or more…

    Born With Two Faces: Diprosopus and Edward Mordake