EPOCH TIMES– Manhattan UFO sightings that generated buzz in downtown New York City coincided with a prediction made by Stanley A. Fulham, a retired NORAD officer, in his recently published book, according to a press release dated September 13, 2010. In “Challenges of Change (3rd ed),” Fulham says that a fleet of UFOs would hover over earth’s major cities on … Read More
SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY
Diamond Star Thrills Astronomers
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BBC– Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. … Read More
Could ‘Goldilocks’ Planet Be Just Right For Life?
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THE HERALD SUN– Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks Zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right. Not too far from its star, not too close. So it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too big nor too small … Read More
Should We Give Cancer Patients ‘Magic Mushrooms’?
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ATLANTIC WIRE– According to a new study, psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms” has a beneficial psychological impact on terminal cancer patients. Researchers in Los Angeles found that the hallucinogen reduced anxiety and depression, giving patients peace in their final days. The experiment involved 12 subjects with advanced-stage cancer between the ages of 36 and 58. While some are … Read More
Rachel Sussman: The World’s Oldest Living Things
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July 2010 TED– Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture. Rachel Sussman is on a quest to celebrate the resilience of life by identifying and photographing continuous-living organisms that are 2,000 years … Read More