The perpetual myth of free energy
Irish company Steorn made headlines around the world when it took out a full page advert in The Economist claiming to have developed a device that produced "free energy". Throughout early July, the company planned to display the device to the public for the first time...
Strange things afoot? Blame them on the wind
If you go out and do something really strange in the coming weeks don't be too hard on yourself- it may not be your fault. When you bark like a dog at the bank teller or call the Secret Service about the ship coming from Gliese 876, again, you can blame it on the wind, literally...
Book Extract: The Holographic Universe - does objective reality exist?
In 1982 a remarkable event took Place. At the University of Paris a Research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th Century. You did not hear about it on the evening News. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing...
Things that go bump in the night
Do you believe in ghosts? The Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team investigate paranormal events or unexplained phenomena. Team members conducted an investigation Saturday night at Pea Ridge Military Park...
Mother and daughter describe Tahoe UFO
In the blink of a byte, future becomes past
The Internet can seem an all-knowing, mysterious oracle. Yet oracles earn their robes not for providing trivia, but for predicting the future, however Delphically. And for a brief period recently, the Internet seemed to have crossed that threshold. The backdrop was the bizarre tale of the professional wrestler Christopher Benoit who during one weekend last month killed his wife, Nancy, and later his son and himself. The police didn’t find the bodies until Monday afternoon, June 25, but a Wikipedia entry on Mr. Benoit had reported his wife’s death matter-of-factly 13 hours earlier...
Numerous tribes see Brazillian 'bigfoot'
Members of various tribes in the Amazon have spoken throughout the years of seeing a giant, fearsome, slothlike creature that roams the rainforest. Even tribes that have no contact with each other claim to have seen the creature -- or the "mapinguary" -- The New York Times reported. The word mapinguary roughly translates into "the roaring animal" or "the fetid beast."..
Aliens and mutilated cows
In 1967 Nellie Lewis of Apaloosa, Colorado, discovered that her horse, Snippy, had been mutilated by space aliens. She said the horse gave off a sweet scent like incense, its mane burned her fingers and the boots she was wearing became radioactive...
2012: What's in a number?
The mysterious and mystical Mayans played with numbers, too, and engraved a fourth-dimensional science of numbers in the language of a calendar carved in stone. We only decoded their notations in the 1950s, some 1300 years after the zenith of their civilization. The beginning date of the Mayan calendar is the year 3113 B.C. and the end date when their count stops is the year 2012-why that's just around the corner...
