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- Ah the glamour of archaeology, sifting through the mud at the bottom
of the
Hudson River.
- Across the Middle East, the
quest for
sacred artifacts and for the lessons they can teach us is taking on
new urgency.
- Was Genghis Khan's pen mightier than
his sword? That would be a hell of a pen.
- The
1400-tonne time bomb that lies at the bottom of the Thames could
blow at any time.
-
Stem cell discovery may help diabetics.
- US scientists
genetically engineer mice with twice the endurance capability of
normal mice. Say bye-bye to the Olympics folks.
- Researchers find that fruit flies have sex longer when their
body
clock is impaired. The world is in turmoil, and science is improving
the sex life of fruit flies.
- We all might be capable of enjoying the pleasure of
synesthesia. Shh, can you smell something?
- Electric shock treatment revives
coral reef.
-
God's fragrance descends upon Church two weeks after the prophetic
proclamation "When you experience my fragrance, know that my glory is
not far behind." Try that line out next time you break wind in an
elevator.
- Better the devil
you know in Rennes-le-Chateau.
- Pope condemns human cloning and
arrogance of man. Not sure if he means one man in particular, or all
of us in general.
- Canadian film company releases full-length documentary about
Aztec UFO crash.
- Noah's Ark
discovered?
- Lightning bolt kills 31
Danish cows.
- It's
raining fish, hallelujah it's raining fish.
- Dowsing: is it science or
mysticism?
- Randi
rants about Roswell, Radin and reader queries. Damn, last week was
alliteration week here at TDG, what a waste.
- Hot meteorite
found in backyard. Alternatively, it could be a cooked mushroom or fresh
dog droppings. No wonder the guy picked it up with a paper towel...
- Raelians hold public lecture to
share their message, and insist they are not 'nuts'.
- For some strange reason, scientists are unconvinced by the
Tunguska UFO story.
- Mars Odyssey mission gets a new
lease
on life.
- Asteroid shaves past the Earth in the
nearest miss so far recorded.
-
Exploded star detailed in new Chandra X-ray image.
- Scientists puzzled by remnants of 1994
Jupiter comet collision.
- In the loneliness of space, astronauts may one day count on the
company of
Robonaut. At least it doesn't have one of those funny round mouths.
- New Moon Rising (Amazon
US and
UK) details the behind the scenes
recent history of NASA, from the Columbia explosion to the release
of the Presidential Commission's report on "Moon, Mars and Beyond".
-
Human hibernation being investigated by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Quote of the Day: The things that
will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without
conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business
without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. -
Mahatma Gandhi
- Remember the Kent County Court House ghost caught on security camera
earlier this year? It's an
insect according to the security company who studied the recordings,
and they say it's happened before. Yeah, but have they considered it
could be the ghost of an insect?
- Want to catch your own ghost? A ghostbusting
kit will soon be mass-marketed. I always wanted to be Venkman.
- Richard Freeman's
report of his expedition to Sumatra in search of the Orang-Pendek
and other cryptozoological mysteries.
- Fancy learning more about Cryptozoology? Check out Ben Roesch's
Online
Cryptozoology Archives.
- Does a dinosaur named
Mokele-Mbembe exist in the African Congo?
- The world may be getting smaller, but there's still plenty of wild
territory for Extreme
Expeditions.
- Bizarre creatures of Japan.
No, not lolita-goths and cosplayers, but goblins and ape-men. Genki
link!
- An excellent website detailing
Archaeoastronomy
in Japan. Of particular note is the
star chart of
Kitora Kofun.
- Cesare Berrini's
theories of
Tiahuanaco's Gateway of the Sun.
- Explorers find
new districts of ancient city in Peruvian Andes. If similar
expeditions could get decent funding, I'm sure more discoveries could be
made in South America.
- Paul Stonehill, of the China Paranormal Research Center, presents an
interestin article about Ancient China's mysterious
Yellow Emperor,
Huang-Ti.
- Gusev Crater on Mars may contain
evidence of a watery past. The evidence is watery because Skeptics
keep peeing on it.
- Are
magnetic hills a hoax or the real deal?
- Greens call for action on Scotland's
chaotic summer
weather. Cernig wonders if it's safe to return. It is, but only when
the soccer's not on.
- First Dr Wynn warns of massive tsunamis smashing America's east
coast, now he says he was exaggerating and the volcanic collapse of the
Canary Islands will only cause
mini waves. Surfs up, Prez.
- Butterflies are
disappearing,
possibly due to climate change. Butterflies are symbolic of what,
according to Jung? Post your answers and I'll think of a prize.
- Hopes for an
International
Linear Collider to be built are rising.
- The
darkest body in the universe may be a moon that partners Sedna.
- A shortage of primates for lab experiments could
slow
medical breakthroughs. Uh ... any volunteers?
- The world is experiencing an increase in
dust
storms. Where's Iorek Byrnison when you need him?
- Munch's painting
The Scream has been stolen. Give it back, Greg: administrating TDG
isn't that stressful and it hardly looks like you anyway.
- A woman hanging out her washing becomes the first person in Britain
to be
hit by a meteorite. What surprises me is that other people in the
world have been hit by meteorites! I wonder if she saw stars?
- Impact craters
hidden
under the Antarctic ice sheet are mapped.
- A strain of China's Avian flu is
discovered in pigs.
- A US County Sheriff suspects
"Al-Qaeda or teenagers" for a string of unsolved petty crimes.
- A feel-good cute animal story to end today's news, as
Henry the new-born leatherback turtle swims out to sea.
- The first humans came to North America after the last Ice Age ended
about
13,500 years ago, crossing a land bridge from Asia into what is now
Alaska and spreading quickly across the continent. Then what's this.
- History tells us that the arrival of Columbus in the New World
marked the beginning of the
extinction of the native population of Cuba. But history is often in
error.
- Everyone believes that a
tunnel
is the best way to reduce traffic and congestion around Stonehenge. Not.
- The cave art of Ice Age Britons is rather
dull and uninspired when compared to their Paleolithic counterparts
on continental Europe. Really?
- The Dead Sea Scrolls found a half-century ago in the caves above
Qumran leave no doubt that the Essenes
occupied
that region in Biblical times. No.
- Some scholars maintain that
King
Solomon is a mythological figure, a kind of Jewish King Arthur.
- The first Olympic participants performed their competitions in the
nude. Not
intentionally.
- The
dingo descends from ancient, wild wolf-like animals unique to
Australia. DNA evidence says the Dingo's mamma was Chinese.
- Friday the 13th and the number thirteen are universally considered
unlucky. Nope.
- The news coming from the rovers on
Mars
is so exciting that no printed publication would find it necessary to
embellish the truth. Not quite.
- Alzheimer's disease has only been identified as a collection of
brain cell abnormalities since 1906 making an
ancient Chinese
cure absolute nonsense. We shall see.
- President Bush has banned
stem cell research. Not at all.
- First proposed in 1950, the idea of
linguistic determinism has been discredited.
- There are no South American
Piranhas in Dutch canals. Wanna bet?
- President Bush was looking for an
excuse to invade Iraq and
used 9/11 as an opportunity to do so. Not according to the 9-11
Commission Report. Read Chapter 10.3 'Phase Two' and the Question of
Iraq (14 ppg.). BTW, if you read the whole report it refutes about 95%
of Michael Moore's movie.
- The damp
Rosslyn
Chapel has deteriorated and has few visitors.
- No one would object if the U.S. military policy offered
free breast implants to female soldiers.
- Europe is adamant about maintaining their status of remaining
GM-crop free. Not everyone.
- The story of Noah's
Ark is mythology, a local river flood at best. Okay, what's
this?
- The concept of the
automobile has matured and very little innovation is necessary.
Scroll through the numbers and hold on tight.
- President Bush is saber-rattling, threatening Iran with invasion if
the don't abandon their
nuclear weapons projects. Not hardly. A
diplomatic approach seems to be working well in Iran.
- Gravity is
well understood and and perfectly explained by Newton's Laws of
Motion and General Relativity. You left out the invisible hand and the
pendulum.
- All scientists agree that soaring levels of the
greenhouse gas cause Global Warming making the Kyoto Protocol our
only hope. Uh oh, maybe Bush's mean ol' USA scientists were right.
- Humankind needs
religion for moral guidelines.
- The earth is well-mapped and we know everything about it. There are
no remains of an
'ancient civilization' yet to be discovered.
- All little boys grow up to be violent boyfriends and husbands, and
that all little girls grow up to be
docile wives and mothers who maintain family harmony at all costs.
- They sting, bite, spread disease, and annoy us. The world would be a
better place if we could rid the planet of
insects. Mankind has
no use
for bugs.
- These
'mystery animals' that keep popping-up are all known species. Are
they? Okay, what's this one?
- Russian cosmonauts have never reported
seeing UFOs while in space.
- The concept of a
flying car is the stuff of science fiction and the Jetsons. It will
never become reality. Don't bet on it.
- Virtual reality systems rely on a user
navigating through a space using a joystick or some other
controller, but lack the physical feeling of movement. Not anymore.
-
Ghosts are associated with family castles, predominantly in Great
Britain. Not always.
- Wondering whether
extraterrestrials exist or not is just an entertainment, it really
doesn't matter.
- Having no magnetic field and being so small,
Mars
never had an atmosphere or liquid surface water.
- There's very little to be gained by further exploration of our
solar system. We
know everything.
Quote of the Day: Space travel is bunk. - Sir Harold Spencer Jones
Astronomer Royal of Britain - 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik
- Although they may be asked to die for their country,
Wiccans in US service have difficulties with recognition of their
beliefs. Meanwhile, a Pagan is being
persecuted by townspeople who killed her pet and send her death
threats.
- Whereas previous administrations commonly framed their anti-drug
arguments in secular terms, Bush's
drug war, at
least rhetorically, resembles that of a religious crusade.
- The Bush Administration demand that any
HIV-prevention education relies on abstinence. You only had until
Monday to protest.
- It really is little wonder that 4,000 scientists say Bush's
religious intolerance is interfering with
scientific progress.
- However, since
Kerry is just as concerned to woo the 40% of Americans who are "Born
again", its uncertain that the possible futures are really all that
different.
- The big
question puzzling archaeologists who uncovered a near-perfect
skeleton is: why would a corpse be buried in the middle of a busy Iron
Age workshop?
- A shadowy and polygamous cult, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints has been accused of
kidnapping one of it's own Bishops.
- The head of the lab who cloned Dolly the sheep has tragically been
found
hanged.
- A new species of
flightless bird
is found in the Philippines, and looks likely to join it's relatives
on the endangered list right away.
- Leading media, scientific and government organistaions have received
e-mail warnings of a huge
comet predicted by Nostradamus which is supposed to hit Greece
today. Hello, is there anyone left alive to read this?
- The pin-up
pundit of the American right gives an interview to a flabbergasted
British journalist. Sometimes it's difficult for us foreigners to
understand how many Americans think.
- First it was the fridge mountain, then it was the tyre mountain. Now
discarded computers have got environmentalists worried
- Decades ago, some hunters built a
Bigfoot trap in the woods of Southern Oregon. It's still there, and
has never caught a Bigfoot.
- A curator of a former Chinese Imperial palace has been
put to death for stealing relics he was supposed to protect.
- The fossil of an ancient
sea monster has been uncovered in Manitoba, Canada
- The Thylacine or
Tasmanian Wolf may not be as extinct as it is thought to be.
- The Governor of New Mexico wants to reopen the
investigation into the supposed and famous flying saucer crash at
Roswell.
- Chill out, man! Scientists have found the switch in the brain that
appears to control
anxiety.
Thinks: I wonder if governments have plans for a new water additive?
- Europe is warming up more quickly than the rest of the world, and
cold winters could
disappear almost entirely by 2080 as a result of global warming.
Scots ask what the downside is...
- A woman may enter the record books as the first Briton to be struck
by a
meteorite.
- Austrain scientists have successfully
teleported information 600 metres, a new record which brings quantum
computing a bit nearer.
- Current theories of
gravitation
fail to explain the behaviour of some objects, including the Pioneer
spacecraft.
- "There is a substantial chance that the result of the 2004 U.S.
presidential election will be
suspect...there will be sufficient uncertainty about the honesty of
the vote count that much of the world and many Americans will have
serious doubts." New York Times columnist reprts.
- Religious leaders in Austin, Texas were asked "How would
Jesus vote?"
- World miltary spending is set to increase above
1 Trillion
dollars for the first time, mostly due to huge U.S. weapons and
weapons development spending. This doesnt include the $5 billion per
month war spending on Iraq by the U.S. That's $17 dollars per
U.S. man woman or child every month!
- Australian farmers are bracing for an expected
plague of up to 100 billion locusts.
- A report on the recent
Transhumanist Conference bemoans low attendance while still being
upbeat about the movement's progress.
- Both Mars robotic explorers have found further evidence that
water has flowed at some time on the red planet.
- Christian fundementalist archeologists still believe that
Qumran was
a religious community, despite evidence to the contrary.
- The African
"miracle
babies" reported by Greg come under further scrutiny as the
evangelist behind the scam calls the Church of England a "tool of Satan"
and the Archbishop of Monmouth "a devil worshipper". Amusing though the
thought is, I doubt it.
- More details on the previously reported particle physicists who hope
to learn the secrets of Mexico's
pyramids. Who needs a robot?
- An ancient Chinese herbal cure for
malaria is the basis for a new drug which may be the best weapon yet
against the disease.
- The confusing world(s) of American morality and
censorship. Was the furore over Janet Jackson's nipple diliberatley
stirred up to distract from more weighty matters in Iraq and Guantanamo
Bay?
- Scientists may have demonstrated that
homeopathy works, and James Randi may soon be $1 million out of
pocket.
Quote of the Day: The truth of a proposition has nothing to do
with its credibility. And vice versa. - Lazarus Long
- Cassini finds new Saturn
moons.
- Stars reveal the Milky Way's
age.
- Seoul ticks off Beijing for
distorting history.
- Tibetan medicine packed with
unusual pharmaceutical properties.
- Cosmic ray
link
to global warming boosted.
- Ice yields
ancient
plant matter.
- Hurricane Charley's sharp
turn
baffles scientists.
- Churchill and Hitler:
Titans of World
War 2.
- The forgotten
black confederate soldier.
- Greenstock: If Iraq in 2006 looks very little better than under
Saddam, then the whole thing was a
waste of lives, money and effort.
- 100,000
Radiations - A Review.
- The
devil in their diet.
-
Prions act as stepping stones in evolution.
- Ganymede has a
lumpy
interior.
- A
flash flood in the pan or a rainstorm caused by global warming?
- Taking the
pulse of planet Earth.
- Nanotubes may have no
temperature.
- Scientists to investigate
genetic history of Britons.
- Maligned and ridiculed,
cold fusion gains respect as a cheap way to produce nuclear weapons.
- Is Mercury an incredible
shrinking planet?
- Low-carb
diets get thermodynamic defence.
- On the
electromagnetic basis for gravity.
-
Walden's ripple effect.
- Could Australia's
deadly snakes put the bite on cancer. Perhaps they could even
provide for a test of another
viewpoint?
- Cornish sun
pillar.
- Earth in 2050: Expect
9 billion humans.
- Explorers find
ancient city in Peru jungle.
- Venus: an
inhabited world?
- Sankapala Viharaya's archaeological
importance.
-
Marijuana extract fights brain cancer.
Quote of the Day: Better late than never. - Anon
- Ireland gets the badge of
latest Atlantis candidate.
-
Goth settlement found in the Ukraine. Wonder how they identified it,
perhaps there were Bauhaus CDs lying around...
- British archaeologist to reveal location of
John the Baptist's cave. Probably identified that site by the
distinct lack of hats.
- Ancient Roman fish pens show that the majority of sea level rises in
the past 2,000 year have happened in the
last
century.
- Unlocking the
Mayan
mystery.
- Ancient Persian fleet surrenders
its mysteries.
- Scientists may have found a way of stopping
killer viruses
like AIDS.
- Bacteria play key
longevity role.
- The
big debate over tiny machines. The nano-tech naysayers are up
against it.
- Governor of New Mexico calls for
Roswell investigation to be reopened. "Clearly, it would help
everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows." Clearly
it would help tourism in the state of New Mexico too, but let's not be
cynical...
- Documentary about
Loch Ness
monster gets rave reviews, labelled Scotland's Blair Witch Project.
- British man comes face to face with
a puma. Let's hope he had the brown underwear on.
- Faithful flock to see
religious relics. That's not so much a headline as a rule of thumb.
- How
modern pagans are reviving the ancient polytheistic religions.
- Swedish monster hunter Jan-Ove Sundberg believes he may have
captured Selma, Norway's
legendary serpent monster in Lake Seljord, on film.
-
Ghostbusters harbour doubts over Plymouth's naval dockyard. Pun not
intended.
- Nairobi's
miracle babies shown to media.
- The
race
for the X-prize is hotting up, with another contender completing a
successful test run.
-
David Grinspoon chats to Astrobiology Magazine about Venus,
the hothouse planet. See
our review of
Grinspoon's excellent Lonely Planets (available from Amazon
US and
UK)
- Spielberg and Cruise to do Welles' (and Wells'?)War
of the Worlds. It's alliteration week here at TDG.
- Don't worry about the mercury rising, because
Mercury's shrinking.
- Japanese
combat
robots wow the crowds and aid development at the same time, with
video. Not to sure about training those young robots such violent
tactics though, haven't these people seen I, Robot?
- Will Zahi Hawass
shaft us again? I'm beginning to think that if
they do discover something behind the shaft doors,
it's going to be a gold-framed portrait of Zahi
Hawass.
- The remains of Iron Age woman with
rings on her toes. Iron Age man with piercings
yet to be found.
- Discovery of a
6000-year-old Pharaoh's tomb. Warning: Hawass
again.
- A great
article
on Cahokia, the Mississippi mound mystery.
- A plethora of problems plagues
Parthenon. Twist your tongue around that.
- Carved wooden figure linked to
Seahenge, whose wooden posts may have been
decorated with carvings similar to native American
totem poles.
- Ramses II keeps getting
bigger and bigger. He must have had a small
obelisk. Oh bloody hell, Hawass is quoted again.
- A
17th-century prison used during the Inquisition
will be opened as a museum. Damn, I was hoping
they'd use it for its original purpose and keep
politicians and terrorists there.
- The
Divine Winds that saved Japan twice in the 13th
century. No flatulence jokes for this link, TDG is a
mature civilised site. For flatulence, see the other
links with Zahi Hawass quotes.
- Indian students use
Ancient Vedic maths for problem solving. Good
thing they don't use Ancient Chinese mathematics (a
prize for anyone who gets this joke!).
- A Crop Circle in Wiltshire displays
Mayan 2012 doomsday calendar.
- Geoff Stray reckons he has
cracked the code of Crop Circles.
- Experts found a
piece of the Tunguska UFO. I hope it's the black
box!
- Atlantis in the
North Sea? I don't remember this one, but
Jameske might.
- Russian monkeys
play computer games. We also compile news
reports for TDG. More bananas, Greg!
- Despite being electrocuted, rats
addicted to cocaine continue taking it.
- Dolphin
leaders keep pod together. Good to know one
species of the animal kingdom isn't smoking crack
and playing computer games!
- Ohmigods, giant mutant space ants are
taking over Melbourne. Oh, they're from
Argentina. And they're peaceful. I feel better now.
- Bottled water for your cat? The
ridiculous things people do for their pets.
- Cannabis extract may
shrink cancer tumours.
- Global water supplies will continue to diminish
if we don't stop
eating meat. Supersize me.
- Heatwaves in Europe and North America to
get worse.
- Tokyo experiences
record heatwave.
- Space shuttles to get special
safety upgrades.
- Hubble captures
giant space bubble.
- Dust disk around star may contain
planets.
- Fossils, with tiny ear bones intact, reveal for
the first time how the ancestors of whales and
dolphins developed their finely tuned
underwater hearing.
- We have now officially determined where
Christopher Columbus
isn't buried.
- A Belgian mission in southern Egypt discovers a
6,000-year old Pharaoh. But read the entire
article to learn of an Australian that was arrested
while prowling around the Sphinx recently in search
of 'the key to the universe'.
- The Mississippi River has its
mysteries,
but none that can touch the one that unfolded on its
banks 1,000 years ago.
- Explorers find world's
deepest hole.
- Is
science fiction about to go blind? Somebody
needs to go see
Alien vs. Predator and tell the rest of
us about it.
- Heat waves in the 21st Century will be
brutal.
- Nature is mankind's
gravest threat.
- Existing technologies could stop the escalation
of
global warming for 50-years and work on
implementing them can begin immediately. Well, it
could curtail the emissions of greenhouse gasses
anyway.
- Geologists say the end of the oil age is nigh.
New
recovery tech may tell a different story.
- Gravity equations give rise to a
measles model.
- Does
hunger trump GM fear?
- Britain gave the go ahead for human cloning,
granting a license to scientists bidding to become
the first in Europe to create
stem cells used in medical research from a
cloned human embryo.
- Iran
tested an upgraded version of its conventional
medium-range Shahab-3 missile, two weeks after
Israel tested its Arrow II anti-missile missile.
- There's a war going on in Africa, people vs.
giant swarms of
locusts marauding through the desert states for
the food supply.
- Twist it, stretch it double, fry it to 200°C,
douse it with jet fuel—the stuff survives. Destined
for shape-shifting aircraft wings and artificial
muscles, investor interest is booming in
metal rubber.
- A 480-pound woman died after living six-years on
a
couch.
- The ancient Olympians followed the
Atkins Diet.
- Badgers
threaten
prehistoric burial sites in UK. Yes
badgers.
Oh, lighten-up, will you?
- An
unknown underwater animal has been found in the
Atlantic Ocean. (with pic)
- Dolphin groups rely on
socialites to keep them together. Don't we all?
- Did that Texas rancher shoot and kill a
Chupacabra or not? Experts from the San Antonio
Zoo weigh-in on this one.
- The claim of Russian scientists to have
discovered the wreck of an
alien device at the site of an unexplained
explosion in Tunguska is climbing its way up and
onto the more reputable news sources. But some are
claiming it's a
hoax. Here's the
latest
we've got.
- Strange skies, glowing lights, and
crop formations - in Belgium and Holland, this
time. Ol' Doug and Dave sure do get around, don't
they.
- A Polish town plans to ask the EU for the
equivalent of $126 million to help it build
facilities for hundreds of visitors lured by its
mysterious
crop circles.
- Hugh vortices of superheated gas have been
discovered
swirling like bathtub drains high above the
planet.
- The Mars Society of Australia is to begin
searching for investors to help fund a proposed
Mars research station in northern South
Australia.
- Japan has unfurled a delicate
solar sail in space.
- We're closing-in on what causes
planet formation.
- A nearby star thought to harbor comets and
asteroids now appears to be home to
planets, too.
- India is
rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by
2015.
- Spinning black holes fire off
violent jets.
- Madonna is causing a stir amongst traditional
Kabbalists.
Has she embraced this ancient
tradition or is it just a glitterati fad?
- If aliens haven't found Earth yet then they need
to hurry says
SETI.
- Plus ca change...Egyptian political fraud and
corruption over
tomb thefts
goes back 3,000 years.
- Yet another ocean
"dead zone"
this time off the coast of Oregon.
- Do sceptics deny widespread
climate change
because its easier than accepting
the catastrophic truth?
- A few weeks ago we posted a story that US
pollutants were being found in the UK. Now, it
appears
Asian soot
is being found in New England skies.
- The Rendon Group are media
spin-doctors
extrordinaire, happy to work for
whoever wins the US Presidential election, or
whoever else will pay their fees.
- A retired General alleges that the US' new
misslie defence system
doesn't work and is
unneeded. After all, terrorists don't use ICBMs.
- Project Thunderbird is attempting to follow
DaVinci's vision and build a
human-powered
helicopter. Looks like far more
fun than the X-Prize.
- Excavations at a site in Israel reveal details
of the Middle East's
Iron Age.
- While plans are afoot to take a closer look at a
6,000 year old
industrial city
and it's metalworking in Iran
- Ireland is the latest canditate for
lost Atlantis.
See, the Celts did everything
first! Problem is, Ireland isn't drowned...and Milo
Thatch will tell them its actually Iceland next.
- British scientists are given the go-ahead to
clone
human embyos for stem cell research. The
pro-life lobby has already
protested
the decision.
- Climate change means
more rain
for Britain. As if that were possible,
you scoff!
- T. Rex lived fast and
died young.
"He's sort of the James Dean of
dinosaurs," says the scientist who did the study.
- U.S. uncovers Weapons of Mass Destruction, not
in Iraq but in
Texas
and the national media ignores the story.
Bill, can I pitch our tent on your land?
- Iraq destroyed its
nuclear weapons
programme in 1991 and never
restarted it, says the man in charge of the
programme.
- A Polish town is seeking grant
aid
to make big business out of it's crop
circles.
- Gene therapy can turn a lazy monkey into a
workaholic. I had a boss who just used to shout,
but of course the TDG News Team do it for the love
of knowledge.
- A long-running
religious feud
between pagans and christians in
Australia will now go to court.
- US "Black Ops" weapons programmes are still
going strong, including an
attack boat
and a fast, stealthy, long endurance
UAV
possibly armed with energy weapons which
would be the biggest secret programme since the B-2
bomber.
- In October, three astronauts and a Canadian
doctor will test the latest concepts in
long-distance house calls using a unique
underwater laboratory.
- Danish authorities
ban
Kellogg's enriched cereals as unsafe.
- Argentine ants form
super colony
spanning 100 kilometres in
Australia.
- Building an
intelligent
robot is not as easy as you might
think, because we really don't understand what makes
for intelligence in the first place.
Quote of the Day:
"Men occasionally stumble
over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry
off as if nothing had happened." - Winston
Churchill
- Why shouldn't
aliens look like us? But if they did how would
anyone know they were aliens?
- India braces for glacial Tibet lake to
spill over.
- Hand over
nuclear weapons and know-how, says Iran.
- Iran
uranium source revealed.
-
250 million-year-old cliff pictures discovered
in SW China. I didn't think Cliff Richard was that
old. He doesn't look it.
-
Tidal wave disaster is just waiting to happen.
If it isn't waiting to happen, it has already
happened.
- Scientist warns of
tsunami in the making.
- Does Britain have its own
Lascaux?
- Gulf war
vaccine still a problem, leading scientist tells
inquiry. I suppose it would be if it gave you just
about every disease you could think of, and several
you couldn't.
- Explorers find
UFO fragments in Tunguska meteorite area.
- The
Henoch Prophecies from the Billy Meier Contacts.
- The hidden dangers of
Soy allergens.
- Risk is high, cost is enormous, science is
insignificant. Does anyone have a
good rationale for sending humans into space? If
they don't come back...
-
Name game increases sex appeal.
-
Origami technique boosts pioneering propulsion
technology.
- Examining Newton's
darker side.
- Have scientists detected
ammonia on Mars?
- The ancient
Olympics: A pagan toast to the gods.
-
Shanghai two millenniums older than previously
thought. So, does that increase or decrease house
prices?
- Decoding the
Megaliths.
-
Easter Island's walking stones.
-
Professor Paul Davies says if we're looking for
a message from ET, we should perhaps look at our
own DNA. I wonder if Zech Sitchin's ears are
burning? David Grinspoon also discusses this 'living
message' theory in Lonely Planets (see
my
review)...looks to be heading mainstream.
- So why wouldn't aliens
look like us? That would make it real tough to
fight off the alien invasion...
- Where's ET? That was the big question at the
latest
SETI conference.
- UFO enthusiast begins work on his
next book.
- Three dummies die tragically as
a rocket entered into the X-prize explodes just
1000 feet above the ground. Wonder how many
volunteers they'll get to ride that sucker in
future?
- NASA scientists sees possible mat of
Martian microbes.
- New NASA
super-computer to aid theorists and engineers. I
bet that requisition form got filled out as soon as
DOOM 3 got released last week...
- Good chance it could be a bumper year for the
Perseid meteor shower.
- Hubble in
trouble.
- Quantum entanglement and advanced space
propulsion add up to
spooky spaceflight.
- A
conference where 'weird' is the standard fare.
Sounds like our kind of gig.
- Security cameras catch
waterspout in action.
-
Ancient rock paintings found along river in
south-west China.
- Underwater search of Mediterranean for
Persian fleet concludes.
- Officials lose
pub. Probably with the WMD somewhere...
- Don't panic, but a wall of water might be about
to hit the
east coast of the US. I think I've seen that
film.
- Koko the signing gorilla asks for
a dentist. Hell, I can talk and I still don't
ask for the dentist.
- Cursor control by
eye movement is good news for the disabled.
- 'Smart
glass' keeps the heat out. I'll call it smart
glass when it learns to brew beer and make pizza.
- New
chemical method of predicting earthquakes?
-
Laziness conference to be held this weekend in
Switzerland. Write your own one-liner for this one.
- Antibodies clear Alzheimer's
brain plaques.
- The latest
JREF bulletin from James 'The Amazing' Ranty...err,
Randi.
- While Paul Kurtz and the 'Center for Inquiry' go
"quietly
about their business". Is that 'quietly' as in
with a loudspeaker and a baseball bat?
- Does
witchcraft deserve a bad name?
- 'Grass circle' caused by
wind?
- Meet the doctor who officially investigates
miracles at Lourdes.
- The odd cult of
Philip K. Dick. I don't think the writer is a
fan of PKD somehow...
- Dr Zahi Hawass plans to investigate the second
and third doors in the Great Pyramid shafts
next year. My only question: what the hell is
taking him so long?
- American scientists begin a new cold war with
Russian and French scientists over whether or not
Lake Vostok in Antarctica is sterile.
- Nick Redfern discusses
unexplained events at Avebury's Stonehenge.
- Two nine-year-old girls see
UFOs in Tennessee. No, it's not the Sunsphere!
- The Hubble telescope is in trouble again, as a
vital instrument
breaks down.
- Saturn's moon Titan is a
planet wannabe.
- Suspended animation for long-distance space
travel moves
closer to reality.
- Twenty-four women are wanted to spend sixty days
in bed for
space-age tests.
- China searches for its first
female astronaut.
- British women will never be chosen as according
to a survey, technology makes life
even more hectic.
- Orbital space tourism still
viable, according to Canadian Arrow team.
- Egyptology experts claimed this
vase to be a fake, but recent tests say it's at
least 5000 years old, and older than the Giza
Pyramids. I doubt we'll hear them admit their
mistake.
- A bronze-age temple at least
3500 years old discovered in Jordan.
- Ancient pottery with plowing design could prove
agriculture in China is
4800 years old.
- A mountain range shaped like a
Sleeping Buddha found in northern Mongolia
Autonomous Region. Good to hear there are still
mountain ranges to be discovered in the world!
- Is modernity limited to homo sapiens, or did we
share it with our
distant relatives?
- El Nino could strike again
this year. Where's Zorro when you need him?
- The population of Africa's white rhino has
halved in the past 14 months due to poaching. As
few as 17 survive in the Democratic Republic of
Congo.
- Mississippi
indian mounds to be investigated by
archaeologists using a power parachute.
- Prozac is
contaminating British water supplies due to its
over-use and careless disposal.
- The HIV virus has jumped from primates to people
seven times, not twice as previously thought,
due to consumption of wild meats.
Quote of the Day:
All things considered, there
are only two kinds of men in the world: those who stay
at home and those who do not. The second are the more
interesting. - Rudyard Kipling
- The only human species left on earth is the
result of an
historical accident rather than Darwinian
competition.
- An ancient site dates
grain use to 20,000 BC.
- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a
4,000-year-old
Barbie of the Bronze Age, the world's oldest
toy.
- A mountain hiker stumbles on to a
tomb that's nearly 5,000-years-old.
- Builders laying the foundations for a mosque in
north-east Cairo found a tomb dating from the
Pharaonic period intact but
submerged in ground water up to the ceiling of
the tomb. This find was blessed by the Head of the
Supreme Council for Antiquities.
- A discovery in Sardinia causes the
history of wine to be rewritten.
- Modern
quarrying is a threat to Stonehenge.
- Mars appears to have been
volcanically active more recently than
previously supposed.
- Whoever, or whatever, is responsible for the
August
crop formation at Silbury Hill, borrowed the
design in its border from the Aztec God Xochipilli.
- Either gargoyles or flying dog-faced kangaroos
terrorize a family in Chile. Your call, but
remember people laughed at
Chupacabra until somebody killed one.
- Turkish cameras have recorded some
so-called UFO images in the sky for the third
time in the last 15 days. This story would be better
with some so-called UFO images because they may be a
hoax.
- Canadians are near a
record number of UFO sightings.
- Those that pour over
photographs of Mars and see worms, trees, UFOs,
pyramids, subway stations, giant fungi, fossils,
buried cities, and faces are not necessarily
fraudulent evil bastard liars, just merely deluded.
- Sexual contact with
aliens occurs frequently. Yeah, but those alien
chicks get better looking when the bar starts to
close.
- ET's coded messages may be
inside our bodies.
- Rebecca Rosen doesn’t see
dead people, but she does see their energy.
- Rumor has it that
Bill Gates lusts for the Mario Brothers.
- The UK has a
water pistol plan to save the great bustard.
- Can human intelligence be amplified with a
brain-booster machine?
- A U.S. company claims that is is
cloning
cats. Yeah, we need more cats. Why don't they
clone aardvarks?
- Federal safety officials urge the use of
black boxes in automobiles.
- GM cotton cuts
herbicide use in Australia. That's a good thing.
See Cernig's story yesterday on the dead zone in the
Gulf of Mexico.
- A search in the
deep sea
finds species surprises and plastic bags. And you
thought big corporations were the polluters.
- WANTED - A
court jester to fill a post vacant for 350-years
since England executed its king.
- Nigerian police have arrested 30-witch-doctors
in a raid on fetish shrines where over
50-decomposing bodies and 20-human skulls were
discovered. What year is this?
- Singapore scientists are looking at how the body
can
generate electricity to run mobile devices. Oh
great, we're batteries. :o( You know how this movie
ends. While we're on the subject,
skin is used to transmit key data.
- Brain scientists unravel the mysteries of the
night to determine what
dreams are made of.
- The US army has commissioned a new
supercomputer to simulate complex weapons
systems. A
robot guard will smoke out villains. SkyNet
reads TDG, you know.
- A researcher hopes to zap a laser beam at a
couple of chickens
freezing them in mid-cluck, their leg and wing
muscles paralyzed by an electrical charge created by
the beam, even as their heart and lungs function
normally. This interests the Pentagon.
- Can
anti-Semitism ever end?
- Will the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem lead to World War III?
Would Islamic extremists
target the Dome of the Rock or the al-Aksa
mosques and lay the blame on Israel? Terrorists
don't play dirty, do they? Is this article
anti-religious?
- Scientists have worked out the formula for the
perfect
scary movie. And the winner is
..................
- The world may appear a more
colorful place to women.
- Two Texas rivals, the Longhorns and the Aggies,
join forces to build a telescope, Texas size.
- A
human-like baby is found inside a sheep.
- The key to life on Mars is in the meanest
deserts on Earth.
- The Mars rover Spirit has found
no signs of a past lake in a crater. But,
Spirit did reveal a
magnetic Mars.
- Hey, it's a
space race. A second team goes for space prize.
- Dramatic
differences found in matter and antimatter. We
suspected that there might be differences.
- A plan to celebrate the 'Year of Physics' by
shining lights into the night sky has upset some
astronomers.
- Our solar system may be an
exception, not the rule. Feel lonely?
Quote of the Day:
Do not be angry with me if I
tell you the truth. - Socrates
- Paranormal investigator Kenneth Biddle gets
steamed about
scruple-free journalists slandering his
activities. Now he knows how the neo-pagans feel.
- That nasty "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico may
be contributing to increases in
shark attacks along the Texas coast.
- What goes around comes around. It looks like
acid rain may actually reduce global warming
from bogs and marshes. However, the article doessnt
mention the effect of acid rain killing all those
trees.
- A genetic analysis of the
Australian dingo suggests the dogs tagged along
on an epic expansion of people out of southern China
around 6,000 years ago.
- In case you missed it: a woman says she was
cursed and is now followed by a
hail of stones.
- A boy in
Siberia was reportedly brought up by a dog. I
refuse to make the obvious crass comments about
doggie greetings...
- Psychosurgery. Brain implants. Mind control. The
stuff of movies - like The Manchurian Candidate - or
a
glimpse of the future?
- Fifteen
crop circles in Southern England in less than 2
weeks. My, those guys with the boards and the rope
have been busy...dont they have jobs to go to?
- A Japanese hiker has discovered six bones
believed to be from a
dinosaur that lived 78 million years ago. No,
not Godzilla.
- A Pentagon report claims
abrupt climate change is possible, but according
to its author the report is being buried by Pentagon
beaurocracy.
- The General who was in charge at Abu Graib
alleges a
high level conspiracy kept her ignorant of the
abuses at the prison.
- The San Antonio
Chupacabra is to be sent for DNA testing in an
attempt to identify it.
- Alchemist, wizard, scientist:
Sir
Michael Scott was the prototype renaissance man
and a new drama may help revive interest in his life
and work. I had to include this one, as he is my
direct ancestor.
- Wherever man may go,
lawyers are quick to follow, and for some
decades now, a forward-thinking cluster of attorneys
have their sights set on outer-space. I loved the
bit about the three brothers who sued the US
claiming they inherited Mars from their ancestors
3,000 years ago.
- North Korea fields two new
ICBM systems ...meanwhile it looks like the
funding for part of the technology may have come
from
The Rev. Moon, who was recently crowned
"Messiah" in a well attended
senate event.
- A new study reveals that retreating Alaskan ice
may trigger
earthquakes.
- The fortune tellers of Los Angeles are safe from
a
police crackdown, and won't require licenses.
But of course they already knew that.
- Shock news! Over half of male college students
drink heavily! A report on the negative effects
of binge drinking.
- The Australian Government is funding a
school ran by the doomsday cult of
William Kamm. Mind you, he isn't the only person
who claims to be the
true pope.
- The
ethical arguments over increasing the human
lifespan. A thought-provoking subject.
- Russia is to begin
charging the US for deliveries to the
International Space Station.
- Studies show that feathered dinosaur had a
bird-brain and could probably fly.
- Human's
hearing is like a Barn Owl's in some ranges,
like a gerbil's in others
- The tale of a ghost who likes
modern conveniences, from Tennessee.
- The Red Planet had active
volcanoes much more recently than everyone
thought.
- A look at the world of
dope-testing for athletes in advance of the
Olympics.
- Astronomers discover a new class of
cosmic
explosion more powerful than a supernova.
- Strategies for collecting evidence of
intelligent
Extra-Terrestrial activity.
- Ancient
tradition lives on in Tripoli's spices souq.
- Man wins right to stick
tongue out on passport photo.
- Whenever Bush's approval ratings start slipping
the President's administration
issues a terrorist warning saying an attack is
imminent. Wonder if that is what
Blair is up to?
- Archivists to preserve
recording of JFK assassination.
- Was 911
allowed to happen?
- Is the solar system
special?
- Beneath Antarctica's ice lies mysterious
Lake Vostok.
- Spacewalkers cope with
phantom
menace.
-
Ancient life form may help newest technologies.
- Ancient
tomb yields secrets to builders of Egyptian
mosque.
- Pre-911 acts led to
alerts.
- Alexander the Great's
death debated.
-
Polystyrene homes planned for Afghans. So, who
is pocketing all the spare cash?
- Could
astronauts sleep their way to the stars? And if
so, should they get paid?
-
Science more creative and less true than many
believe. That sentence is a real mind-melter.
- Dramatic difference between
behaviour of matter and anti-matter discovered.
They haven't discovered what anti means, have they?
-
Unreliable websites put patients at risk: Expert
in complementary medicine criticizes bogus cancer
advice. Kind of what unreliable means, though.
- Women who
believe in long life bear sons.
- US Army orders weapons
supercomputer. Skynet on the way?
- Anomalous
ground holes appear in the Russian province.
Finally someone in Russia has seen Caddyshack.
- The games are as
flawed today as they were in ancient Greece.
- Could gene technology be used illegally to
increase an athlete's performance?
- The medical
timebomb: too many women doctors.
- Where have all the
frogs gone?
-
Forbidden Science: What can studies of
pornography, prostitutes, and seedy truck stops
contribute to society?
- Robert Bauval talks about the
archaeological evidence for a star cult before
the Pyramid Texts. Also on the Talisman board
he mentions some changes to the book for the
paperback edition.
- Egyptian archaeologists may have found the
largest statue of
Ramses II yet. And that's saying something, the
grand old pharaoh wasn't afraid to be accused of
megalomania.
- A young scholar attempts to decode the
megaliths of Malta.
- Robert Ballard says his
Black Sea expedition has failed to find a
'smoking gun' for the 'Great Flood'.
- Are archaeologists being recruited to rewrite
Indian history on behalf of Hindu hard-liners?
- The fight to save Islam's
earliest mosques.
- Two new
Inca observatories found in Central Peru.
- Ancient Chinese city being
swallowed by sand dunes.
- Hi-tech vet tool may be used to clean
stone circle.
- NASA wish-list for its 'Search
for Origins' program has been unveiled.
- The Sun dims in
strange ways. Not to mention that
less sunlight is reaching us.
- Why not take a trip to Mars,
virtually.
- Cassini captures Saturn throwing
a shadow over its famous rings.
- Jesus and Mary Magdalene - the
sacred marriage in Gnosticism.
- Argentinian archbishop addresses alleged
apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
- Will the latest investigation into
Princess Diana's death really bring speculation
to an end?
- Hail the Goddess! Woman complains of being
plagued by
stones falling from the sky.
- 'Champ' is back in the news, after vacationers
at Lake Champlain see a seagull fall prey to
snake-like creature.
-
Tiger roams New York suburb.
- EMF explanation for
ghosts.
- Nepalese boy stops crying stones, and makes the
change to
thorns.
- Strange cloud baffles
residents.
- Audio from an NPR broadcast discussing why
eels are disappearing worldwide.
- Dietary neuro-toxin linked to
Alzheimer's Disease.
- Scientists turn blood into
chocolate and yoghurt. Somehow I can't see those
products flying off the shelf.
- Animated computer face helps deaf
chat on phone.
- Francis Crick, co-discoverer and pioneer of DNA,
died aged 88. Rest in peace.
- Nanotechnology poses
no new risks.
New risks? I'm worried
about the old risks.
- Dark matter, the mysterious force that propels
our Universe, is
linked to the recently discovered mass of
Neutrinos. Accelerons play a part somehow. I'm
confused. Where's Philip Pullman when I need him.
- Our universe has at least
30 billion years left. Phew, that's a relief,
but I'm not worried about the universe ... I'm
worried how long planet Earth has.
- You're invited to help
catalog Mars. RSVP to
NASA.
- Messenger, the first mission to Mercury
in almost 30 years, is
set to go.
- Forget about Secret Squirrel, it's
Ultrasonic Squirrel. No wonder I couldn't catch
one at the University of Tennessee four years ago
...
- Police use
pepper spray on annoying cell phone users during
movie screening. Perhaps
Frequency-Selective Wallpaper is the answer but,
Cinema Nazi that I am, I still like the pepper spray
option.
- Forget about sunscreen at summer beaches, use
shark repellent.
- Can
Ecstasy help trauma victims heal emotional
wounds?
- The
benefits of acupuncture for post-op patients.
- No, it's not a new Subway menu.
Aussie mini-sub will revolutionise deep sea
exploration.
- Can you catch the world's smallest fish with the
world's
weirdest worm? Dwarf males live inside the
female, who munches on dead whales.
- The Vatican tells feminists to
get back in the kitchen and cook the Pope his dinner.
Why is the Catholic Church so afraid of women? Oh,
they met my ex-girlfriend.
- China's internet censorship aims to ban
pornography. Has anyone told them providing
decent sex education is the better way to go?
- 9/11 report is
vague on technology.
- Ancient site of
Qumran is boring, yawn Israeli archaeologists.
- Mystery plague that swept the world in the 1920s
is identified as
Encephalitis Lethargica. I may have a case of
that. British writer
Neil Gaiman
used the disease in his Sandman comics.
- A muddy piece of dirt discovered at
Aberdeenshire may not look like much, but it was
once a
jewelled cross.
- Ancient city of Heicheng being
buried by shifting desert sands. The article
proper is below all of the great photographs.
- Evidence for links between Ancient China and
South America: Xian's
Altar of Heaven and
Muyuqmarka, Sacsayhuaman, Peru.
- Black Sea investigation yields no evidence of
cataclysmic flooding. I met Dr Walter Pitman
many years ago and his geographical evidence is
conclusive: there was massive flooding of the
Black Sea thousands of years ago.
- Student proves Government beaurocrats have no
sense of humour when they demand he remove a website
parodying what to do to
prevent terrorist attacks. Parody site is
here.
- Bill Gates ignores my plea to fix Internet
Explorer (which has been crashing on me all weekend
and just crashed again) and goes after Google's
excellent
news search engine instead. Could compiling the
news for TDG get any easier?
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