March 2011
2 posts
Hate man →
February 2011
4 posts
The lost tomb of Caligula has been found,... →
Followers of Ramtha cult murder police officer →
According to website reports, the Ramtha cult was started by an American called Judy Knight who claims that Ramtha, a 35 000-year old disembodied entity from an ancient civilisation, “channels” through her, Helen Bamford reports in the Weekend Argus.
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Facebook is for popular people
MySpace is for music people
Twitter is for famous people
Bebo is for pedophiles
Tumblr is for special people
January 2011
9 posts
Technoccult: What's The Difference Between Game... →
technoccult:
A follow-up to my last article on the gamification of work:
And to some extent, “pointsification” is just quantification - something enterprises should be doing anyway. In fact, most the principals of a good game should apply in the workplace.:
Quantification: Tracking sales, average…
Greenbrier Ghost →
The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, who was murdered in 1897. The events surrounding the haunting have led to it becoming a very late instance in American legal history in which the so-called “testimony of a ghost” was accepted at a murder trial.
Astronomers find first evidence of other universes →
As humans evolve, our brains are actually getting... →
“A smaller brain is the signature of selection against aggression,” anthropologist Brian Hare says. “Another way to say that is an increase in tolerance.”
Artificial rain in the desert →
As part of a secret program to control the weather in the Middle East, scientists working for the United Arab Emirates government artificially created rain where rain is generally nowhere to be found. The $11 million project, which began in July, put steel lampshade-looking ionizers in the desert to produce charged particles. The negatively charged ions rose with the hot air, attracting dust....
December 2010
2 posts
WatchEl mar arroja a la orilla una estatua de 1.700 años tras una tormenta.
November 2010
10 posts
HaptoRender: A 3D printed map to guide the... →
Improvised exotic weapons →
A US researcher has said he plans to... →
The eventual aim of Dr Cerf’s project is to develop a system that would enable psychologists to corroborate people’s recollections of their dream with an electronic visualisation of their brain activity.
Evidence that we can see the future to be... →
Parapsychologists have made outlandish claims about precognition – knowledge of unpredictable future events – for years. But the fringe phenomenon is about to get a mainstream airing: a paper providing evidence for its existence has been accepted for publication by the leading social psychology journal.
Modern art was CIA 'weapon' →
In the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
The School of Night →
The School of Night is a modern name for a group of men centred on Sir Walter Raleigh that was once referred to in 1592 as the “School of Atheism.” The group supposedly included poets and scientists such as Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman and Thomas Harriot. There is no firm evidence that all of these men were all known to each other, but speculation about their connections...
Charity offers UK drug addicts £200 to be... →
October 2010
7 posts
Punchy robot tests Isaac Asimov's First Law on six... →
Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD ones →
Dr. Henrich and co-authors Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan argue that life-long members of societies that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic see the world in ways that are alien from the rest of the human family.
Urban Operating System →
Audio zoom picks out lone voice in the crowd →
Tattoos left on a 1,000-year-old Andean woman may... →
Angels of Mons →
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I.
September 2010
5 posts
Connectome →
The connectome is the complete description of the structural connectivity (the physical wiring) of an organism’s nervous system.
Canadian authorities to try 3D image of child to... →
From the far distance the image will look like just a mark on the road, but the image of the girl and ball will appear to rise up from the road when the car is 30 meters away. At shorter distances, the image recedes again. If drivers are traveling at the posted speed of 30 km/h, they will be able to stop in time when they realize they are seeing an image of a child on the road.
Scientists decode words from brain signals →
In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain.
Notes on the back of a 400-year-old letter have... →
August 2010
13 posts
Simultanagnosia →
Simultanagnosia is a rare neurological disorder characterized by the inability of an individual to perceive more than a single object at a time.
Fermenting diabetic urine into whisky →
Is it plausible to suggest that we start utilizing our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance? In James Gilpin’s scenario, sugar heavy urine excreted by patients with diabetes would be used for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export.
Anticipation of pain makes it hurt more, even... →
Elephants are not fazed by dynamite explosions,... →
Killer vampire bats attack 500 people →
The attacks occurred in the village of Urakusa, in northeastern Peru, where the indigenous Aguajun tribe lives. At least four people are believed to have succumbed to rabies as a result.
Before the CIA, there was the Pond →
Created by U.S. military intelligence as a counterweight to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, it functioned as a semiautonomous agency for the State Department after World War II and ended its days as a contractor for the CIA with links to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
A paralysed Austrian man was eaten to death by... →
WatchInteractive zoetrope