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Telekinesis and Telepathy Go Electric
Telekinesis and Telepathy Go Electric Paranormal is just about to be simply “normal” – Did you think our ability to master telekinesis and telepathy would look like this? Temporary tattoos could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible by Charles Q. Choi – Txchnologist “Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Electrical engineer Todd Coleman at the University of California at San Diego is devising noninvasive means of controlling machines via the mind, techniques virtually everyone might be able to use. Commanding machines using the brain is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In recent…
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Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About GUERLAIN…
Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About GUERLAIN… Curious about what lost perfumes were like? Author M.J. Rose spent a few months touring the blogosphere last year, and she left behind a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances… Now that the paperback of THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES is out, we are publishing her guest posts here at The Museum of Mysteries. Enjoy! (Tune in often as we post more links to her numerous delicious posts. Your senses will thank you!) …And so, here’s a peek at M.J.’s lush on GUERLAIN… “Researching The Book of Lost Fragrances was a labor of love. One of the most wonderful parts…
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Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About WEIL – CASSANDRA…
Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About WEIL – CASSANDRA… M.J. was on a blog tour last year for THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES (now in paperback) and she guest blogged about lost fragrances as she went! (Tune in often as we post more links to her numerous delicious posts. Your senses will thank you!) …And so, here’s a peek at M.J.’s Guest Post at Mrs. Q Book Addict on the unforgettable Weil – Cassandra… “M.J. Rose: I’ve been fascinated with lost fragrances since long before I started writing The Book of Lost Fragrances… since I found a bottle of perfume on my great grandmother’s dresser that had belonged to…
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Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About GUERLAIN…
Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About GUERLAIN… Curious about what lost perfumes were like? Author M.J. Rose spent a few months touring the blogosphere last year, and she left behind a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances… Now that the paperback of THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES is out, we are publishing her guest posts here at The Museum of Mysteries. Enjoy! (Tune in often as we post more links to her numerous delicious posts. Your senses will thank you!) …And so, here’s a peek at M.J.’s lush on GUERLAIN… “Researching The Book of Lost Fragrances was a labor of love. One of the most wonderful parts…
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Back From Extinction – Ball’s Pyramid’s Hidden Population…
Back From Extinction – Ball’s Pyramid’s Hidden Population… Did you hear about the thought-to-be-extinct giant insect they found on Ball’s Pyramid in the middle of the sea? (Atlas Obscura) From Atlas Obscura - “The remnants of a massive volcano, Ball’s Pyramid juts 1,843 feet out of the Pacific Ocean. Discovered in 1788, the barren, rocky spire was thought to be devoid of life until 2001 when a group of scientists discovered what may be the world’s rarest insect. The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) had not been seen alive in over 70 years. Known as “land lobsters” or “walking sausages,” the six-inch long insects were once common on…
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Lost Fragrances Found. Again…
Lost Fragrances Found. Again… Here’s some exciting news: M.J.’s novel, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is coming out in today. THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES was the Indie Next Pick for March of last year, Best of 2012 – Suspense Magazine, and Best of Spring Mystery/Suspense PW and Amazon - with a starred and boxed PW review. In case you have not read the book yet, here is the story straight from M.J.: “Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was fascinated with and some say obsessed by scent. Marc Anthony built her a fragrance factory and the famous queen was said to have kept a recipe book for her…
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All Your Mysteries Shall Be Solved!
All Your Mysteries Shall Be Solved! What if? No really, WHAT IF? What if there were a website that answered “what if” questions in a completely scientific and fun way? Well there is. And it is amazing… Welcome to WHAT IF. Click here to enjoy so very many incredible explanations of wonderful things! And see below for a sample: Laser Pointer If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? —Peter Lipowicz “Not if we use regular laser pointers. The first thing to consider is that not everyone can see the Moon at once. We could gather everyone in…
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The dark downfall of Eleanor Cobham…
The dark downfall of Eleanor Cobham… The Penance of Eleanor, painted in 1900 By Nancy Bilyeau “On Monday, November 19th, 1441, the people of London lined the streets to observe an act of public penance. That morning a woman, perhaps forty years of age, bare-headed, plainly dressed, was rowed in a barge to Temple Stairs off the Thames. She stepped off the barge and proceeded to walk all the way to St. Paul’s Cathedral, carrying before her a wax taper of two pounds. Once she made it to St. Paul’s, she offered the taper to the High Altar. The woman was Eleanor Cobham, mistress-turned-wife to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, only…
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Cut off from the world, a family survives for decades in the wilds of Siberia…
Cut off from the world, a family survives for decades in the wilds of Siberia… This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story. Fascinating beyond imagination. A story that would make a most interesting and eye-catching film – Who wants to write the screenplay? For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga “Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation:…
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2013 » February
Archive for February, 2013 Telekinesis and Telepathy Go Electric Paranormal is just about to be simply “normal” – Did you think our ability to master telekinesis and telepathy would look like this? Temporary tattoos could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible by Charles Q. Choi – Txchnologist “Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Electrical engineer Todd Coleman at the University of California at San Diego is devising noninvasive means of controlling machines via the mind, techniques virtually everyone might be able to use. Commanding machines using the brain is no longer the stuff of…
