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2012 » August
Archive for August, 2012 Alien, Cryptid, or Poodle Moth? Here is a nature “mystery” for you – a simultaneously disturbing and cute creature. How is that even possible? The sheer weirdness of the Venezuelan poodle moth has caused images of it to go viral on the net… (It looks like an alien to me! When I first saw a photo of it I was certain it was a puppet or a special effect for a space movie!) Zoologist Arthur Anker’s picture of a Venezuela poodle moth has captured the curiosity of Internet onlookers. By Alan Boyle It’s been compared to a fluffy dog, a Pokemon character and a Power Rangers…
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Death Is An Illusion
Death Is An Illusion “The influences of the senses,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson “has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of space and time have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.” We have posted here often about Biocentrism, Dr. Lanza’s fascinating theory of the universe and reality, and we are still very intrigued. But, if consciousness is everything, how is death explained using the ideas of Biocentrism? Won’t we cease to exist once our consciousness has passed away? The following article explains that there may in fact…
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Immortality – If jellyfish can do it…
Immortality – If jellyfish can do it… Dear Science, Please hurry up and replicate this phenomenon for use in humans! Or, wait, it would probably be nightmarish beyond words if we were all immortal? What would we all eat, where would we all live?… The Curious Case of the Immortal Jellyfish (Discover magazine) “It’s official: the only thing certain in this world is taxes. That’s because death, for a tiny sea creature, is not inevitable.Turritopsis nutricul, a jellyfish-like hydrazoan, is the only animal known to be potentially immortal. Once it reaches sexual maturity, Turritopsis looks like a tiny, transparent, many-tentacled parachute (only about 5mm in diameter) that floats freely in…
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2012 » July
Archive for July, 2012 Death Is An Illusion “The influences of the senses,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson “has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of space and time have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.” We have posted here often about Biocentrism, Dr. Lanza’s fascinating theory of the universe and reality, and we are still very intrigued. But, if consciousness is everything, how is death explained using the ideas of Biocentrism? Won’t we cease to exist once our consciousness has passed away? The following article explains that…
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Esoterica
Archive for the 'Esoterica' Category The Secret History of The Glow-in-the-Dark Civil War Soldiers I’ve never heard of this phenomenon! It’s completely bizarre… The Mystery of the Glow-in-the-Dark Civil War Soldiers BY LAUREN DAVIS (IO9.COM) The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh left 16,000 soldiers dead and 3,000 soldiers wounded, and some of those wounded soldiers are part of an odd mystery. Some of the soldiers had eerily glowing wounds, which healed more quickly than the non-glowing wounds. So what strange battlefield science was at work? It took two days and nights for the medics to reach all of the wounded soldiers in Shiloh, and some of the soldiers noticed…
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The theatre predating Shakespeare’s Globe is discovered…
The theatre predating Shakespeare’s Globe is discovered… If only it were possible to step into a time machine and land ourselves in the the Curtain theatre (or the Globe itself!) with a mug of ale and a raucous tale for the evening… BY PHILIP BAILLIE, REUTERS JUNE 7, 2012 Archeologists in London have discovered the remains of an early playhouse used by William Shakespeare’s company where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed. Predating the riverside Globe, the Curtain theatre, north of the river Thames in Shoreditch, was home to Shakespeare’s company – the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Remains of walls forming the gallery and the yard within the…
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Turing’s Sentient Mind
Turing’s Sentient Mind The man called Alan Turing was certainly a genius: He foresaw the power and influence of computers – as well as how they would work. He also lived a life of persecution for being a homosexual, he was eventually arrested and forced into chemical “castration”. They say he committed suicide by lacing an apple with cyanide (his favorite story was Snow White and The Seven Dwarves.) But the most interesting thing about Turing is that he was the first person to ask the question: Will machines someday be able to think like humans? And if so, will they be victims of prejudice too? The Turing Problem from…
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When Antarctica Was Warm… Whenever I read an article about how Antarctica was once a warm and tree covered paradise, my imagination soars and I wonder, well then, who was living there then? Some people say that the true location of Atlantis is under the ice of Antarctica – it IS a giant island after all… And with all the evidence lately of civilization being way older than we ever thought, who is to say that we weren’t around a million years ago building cities? (See: The Vedic literature of India!) - EcoAlert: Ancient Antarctica Found Warmer & Wetter Than Expected (DailyGalaxy.com) “A new university-led study with NASA participation finds…
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Early Cave Art May Not Be of Human Origin
Early Cave Art May Not Be of Human Origin This is one of the most interesting arguments in favor of the “humanity” of our old friends the Neanderthals! Famous Cave Paintings Might Not Be From Humans by CHRISTOPHER JOYCE (NPR) “The famous paintings on the walls of caves in Europe mark the beginning of figurative art and a great leap forward for human culture. But now a novel method of determining the age of some of those cave paintings questions their provenance. Not that they’re fakes — only that it might not have been modern humans who made them. The first European cave paintings are thought to have been made…
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According to a new theory, time may be running out.
According to a new theory, time may be running out. A new theory suggests that one day in the distant future time could actually run out and the entire universe would grind to a halt. This terrifies me! One of the things about Buddhist thought that I enjoy is the idea that everything changes. What is happening right now will absolutely change. This is a great comfort to me in hard times. But what if this is entirely and profoundly not the case at all? Get your science geek on: Time could disappear by Steven Hodson “I have the greatest admiration for people who can think about things so far…
