Archive for the 'Life as we know it?' Category

Bees seeking ’sugary’ garden pest

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

A lack of suitable flowers may be forcing bumblebees to seek out aphids to feed on their sugary secretions.
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vegetable crimewave

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

” …Thieves stole potatoes from my own plot and put the stalks back in place so it was two or three days before I noticed.”
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UFOs invade town!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

A SMALL Territory community is still reeling with shock after four UFOs descended on their Outback homes.
Families spent hours in fear as what appeared to be three spaceships hovered in the distance with another just metres above their houses.
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Proof of life after death…

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

… Fellin, during the last years of his life, insisted he had made numerous incredible journeys to “The Other Side” of death.
“I was shown `The Other World’,” he stated. “This is NOT the real world. We have to earn our place in the real world. I KNOW because I made the whole trip.”
Fellin, interestingly, said [...]

Scientists are rewriting the laws of heredity

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

… Scientists are still deciphering what has been described as the second genetic code. They know, Dr. Szyf said, that a number of chemicals in our bodies act like dimming switches and determine whether every gene in each cell produces a lot of a particular protein, very little or none of it.
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Astrophysicist solves riddle of Britain’s complex crop circle

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

It is - by any calculation - a creation stunning in its ingenuity.
Carved out in a barley field, this 150ft wide pattern is said to be a pictorial representation of the first ten digits of Pi, one of the most fundamental symbols in mathematics.  link…

Magnificent Korean Crop Circle

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Seems that this is the first corn crop circle documented in South Korea.  Makes me think of the orbits of a star/galaxy?   link…

Film content, editing, and directing style affect brain activity, NYU neuroscientists show

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Using advanced functional imaging methods, New York University neuroscientists have found that certain motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Moreover, the impact of films varies according to movie content, editing, and directing style. link…

New Crop Circle Discovered

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Barbury Castle, near Wroughton, Wiltshire. Reported 1st June.
Would be interesting to see this crop circle in 3 dimensional form. link…

‘Japan soldiers’ found in jungle

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Japanese officials are investigating claims that two men living in jungle in the Philippines are Japanese soldiers left behind after World War II. link…