Archive for February 2010
The Impertinent Anthropic Principle
Found : The Impertinent Anthropic Principle Because this premise is less than certain, many of those who espouse the WAP advocate many universes, so that we just happen to be in the one that contains us. Nick Bostrom (2) points out that the Anthropic Principle may be considered presumptive evidence for many universes "in the…
Read MoreDocumentation of Giants Throughout the World
Was there a giant race of humans before us? Could there been a giant race existing before the flood. One age of Man dying out being replaced by another. Reports of giant remains and skeletons being unearthed show convincing evidence that these giants indeed existed in a pre-existing culture. ((Giants, Facts , Description and Documentation…
Read MoreLancet Study on NDEs
Found : Lancet Study on NDEs As described on the NPR website, "More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the…
Read MoreHow To Deprogram Your Own Mind
Found : How To Deprogram Your Own Mind Don't condemn yourself. Self-condemnation and self-criticism are part of the brain-washing and indoctrination process, and they are counter-productive when it comes to deprogramming. If you find that you have been programmed to believe some goofy idea, then just recognize that it is an irrational, illogical, goofy idea,…
Read MoreGuided Rats
Guided rats – so-called ratbots – controlled through implants in their brains could one day be used to search for landmines or buried victims of earthquakes, scientists say. The extraordinary experiment involves researchers steering five rats through an obstacle course by remote control. Writing in the journal Nature, they say the ratbots could reach places…
Read MoreNorman Cohen on the Blood Libel
Found : Norman Cohen on the Blood Libel In his research on the great witch hunt in Europe from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, historian Norman Cohn discovered a single enduring paranoid theme: that somewhere in the midst of the larger society there lurks another society– small, well-organized, and clandestine– that threatens the existence of…
Read MoreMapping the Real Deal: The American Tapeworm
Found : Mapping the Real Deal: The American Tapeworm The other day, a natural healing practitioner explained the strategy used by a tapeworm to prosper. A tapeworm, she said, injected a chemical into its host that triggered a craving by the host for what the tapeworm wished for its dinner. By managing it’s hosts desire,…
Read MoreWilliam Burroughs, parasitism, language and the virus
Found : William Burroughs, parasitism, language and the virus "Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?" In this epigram, Burroughs suggests that parasitism–corruption, plagiarism, surplus appropriation–is in fact conterminous with life itself. The tapeworm doesn't simply happen to attach itself to an intestine that was getting along perfectly well without it. Say rather that…
Read MorePredators 'drove human evolution'
Found : Predators ‘drove human evolution’ The popular view of our ancient ancestors as hunters who conquered all in their way is wrong, researchers have told a major US science conference. Instead, they argue, early humans were on the menu for predatory beasts. This may have driven humans to evolve increased levels of co-operation, according…
Read MoreChandra Wickramasinghe on the extraterrestrial origins of the SARS virus
Found : Chandra Wickramasinghe on the extraterrestrial origins of the SARS virus LONDON, England (CNN) — The SARS virus might have originated in outer space, according to a scientist in Britain. In a letter to The Lancet medical journal, professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University suggests the virus was introduced to Earth on a comet…
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