*Editor’s Note ( Ralph Turchian0) – Requested Repost from 2013 Karl Smallwood November 29, 2013 Today I found out that during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an… Read More ›
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Trust through the olfactory fragrance of lavender
PUBLIC RELEASE: 13-JAN-2015 Aromatherapy Sellaro and her fellow researchers were the first to investigate whether the calming olfactory fragrance of lavender has a positive effect on mutual trust. Aromatherapists already known that aromatic compounds can alter one’s mood, cognitive, psychological… Read More ›
Study supports the theory that men are idiots
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 11-Dec-2014 BMJ-British Medical Journal Sex differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency hospital admissions, and mortality are well documented. Males are more likely to be admitted to an emergency department after accidential injuries, more likely to be admitted… Read More ›
U.S. House of Representatives votes unanimously today to block suspected Nazi war criminals from receiving Social Security benefits
US takes a Stand: No SS for the SS Thursday, 04 December 2014 After World War II ended, 8,000 high ranking Nazis were recruited by the U.S. This much we know. Some of them were kicked out of the country… Read More ›
Forgetting the Presidents
Caption: US President Harry S. Truman will be forgotten by three-fourths of American college students by 2040, according to a new study by psychology researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. Public Release: 27-Nov-2014 Most American presidents destined to fade… Read More ›
Post-medieval Polish buried as potential ‘vampires’ were likely local
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 26-Nov-2014 Potential vampires in the 17th-18th century buried with rocks, sickles to ward off evil Caption: Individual 49/2012 (30-39 year old female) is shown with a sickle placed across the neck. Potential ‘vampires’ buried in northwestern… Read More ›
Meteor #2? Massive Flash Stuns Russian residents
Wednesday, 19 November 2014 An extraordinary bright orange flash has lit up the sky in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region in the Urals. While locals captured the massive ‘blast’ on numerous cameras, both scientists and emergency services still struggle to explain the… Read More ›
Scientist discover Virus that Makes People More Stupid – 43% of those tested were infected
Algal viruses attach, enter, and infect green alga (seen in series here). Liz is a staff writer for Science.By Elizabeth Pennisi 27 October 2014 3:30 pm It’s not such a stretch to think that humans can catch the Ebola virus… Read More ›
Maybe it wasn’t the Higgs particle after all
Public Release: 7-Nov-2014 Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn’t the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone. Many calculations indicate that… Read More ›
This robot makes you feel like a ‘ghost’ is in the room
People don’t really tend to see ghosts or guardian angels as much as “feel” them, and now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on November 6 think they know where that “feeling of a presence” (FoP) phenomenon… Read More ›
Griffith scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds
Many Interacting Worlds theory challenges foundations of quantum science Griffith University academics are challenging the foundations of quantum science with a radical new theory based on the existence of, and interactions between, parallel universes. In a paper published in the… Read More ›
Brain responses to disgusting images help reveal political leanings, with 95 percent to 98 percent accuracy
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 29-Oct-2014 On verge of Election Day, Virginia Tech scientists find that biology influences political ideology Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether… Read More ›
Financial experts do not make higher returns on their own investments than untrained investors, according to research by a Michigan State University
Published: Oct. 28, 2014 Do financial experts make better investments? Financial experts do not make higher returns on their own investments than untrained investors, according to research by a Michigan State University business scholar. The first-of-its-kind study analyzed the private… Read More ›
Earth’s water is older than the sun
Water Through Time Caption: This is an illustration of water in our Solar System through time from before the Sun’s birth through the creation of the planets. = Washington, D.C.—Water was crucial to the rise of life on Earth and… Read More ›
Is that a Traffic Light on Mars?
Thursday, 25 September 2014 With the now increased traffic in the Red Planet’s region – since India’s satellite reached Mars’s orbit Wednesday – a traffic light might just be what’s been missing. And it didn’t take long for one… Read More ›
Swiss Village Upset Over Tax Increase to Support 1 Refugee Family
Tuesday, 16 September 2014 A village in the Swiss canton of Zurich has expressed anger over the situation of just one refugee family. To carry on supporting a mother from Eritrea and her seven children, authorities aim to increase taxes,… Read More ›
Stonehenge gets more Mysterious, New Monuments Discovered Underneath it
Wednesday, 27 August 2014 The mystery surrounding Stonehenge has suddenly deepened — literally. A first-of-its-kind study suggests that 15 previously undiscovered or poorly understood monuments lie hidden under the ancient stone monument and its surroundings. For the study, researchers used… Read More ›
China plans establishment of Christian theology
“A five-year campaign to promote Christian theology in China, launched in 2013, will provide theological guidance for church rostrums in China and will promote the positive and correct theological thinking with a range of publications, exchanges, discussions and evangelism.” China… Read More ›
Equation to predict happiness
The happiness of over 18,000 people worldwide has been predicted by an equation developed by researchers at UCL, with results showing that moment-to-moment happiness reflects not just how well things are going, but whether things are going better The happiness… Read More ›
US Law Enforcement sees Sovereign Citizens as Top Terrorist Threat
Monday, 04 August 2014 The sovereign citizen movement is considered the top threat for domestic terrorism, according to a survey of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. Islamist extremists and militia/patriot groups round out the top three threats to… Read More ›
China expands world’s deepest ‘dark matter’ lab
(Xinhua) 11:03, August 03, 2014 – BEIJING – China has begun expanding the world’s deepest underground lab in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, where scientists have been conducting experiments on mysterious “dark matter”. – The second-phase construction of the Jinping Underground… Read More ›
US Health Agency Holds Patent on Ebola Strain Virus
Sunday, 03 August 2014 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as “EboBun.” It’s patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. You can view it here. Patent applicants are… Read More ›
Homeseller Need not Reveal Murder-Suicide
By DAVID LEE (CN) – The sellers of homes do not have to disclose “psychological stigmas,” such as murders, to prospective buyers, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. The state’s highest court unanimously ruled Monday in favor of Kathleen and… Read More ›
Is The Universe A Bubble? Let’s Check
July 17, 2014 Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his colleagues are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science. Never mind the big bang; in… Read More ›
Three Americans Hospitalized in Mexico After Becoming ‘Possessed’ by Ouija Board Demonic Spirits
EEV: ??? Katie Collom | Jun 25, 2014 01:06 AM EDT Three Americans Hospitalized in Mexico After Becoming ‘Possessed’ by Ouija Board Demonic Spirits : Society : ChinaTopix.com (Photo : en.actu.net) Three American friends were taken to a Mexican hospital… Read More ›
Russian scientists raising funds to rebuild Tesla Tower, satisfy world energy hunger
Published time: July 04, 2014 15:56 Reuters/Sheng Li Two Russian physicists are fundraising to realize their project for wireless energy transmission once proposed by brilliant 20th-century scientist Nikola Tesla. Solar panels and an upgraded Tesla Tower could solve global… Read More ›
WSU researchers chart an ancient baby boom / Southwest US experience holds a lesson in over-population
Pueblo Bonito PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University researchers have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long “growth blip” among southwestern Native Americans between 500 to 1300 A.D. It was a time when… Read More ›
Haters spend more time … hating?
The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania U. Illinois/Penn study sheds light on activity levels based on one’s attitude disposition PHILADELPHIA (June 19, 2014) – We already know haters are predisposed to be that way. Now we… Read More ›
Not so fast – our fishy friends can also feel pain
New York / Heidelberg, 17 June 2014 Review of mental ability shows fish are on par with most animals Do you still believe that fish are dumb and cannot feel pain? That we do not have to worry much about… Read More ›
Evidence of ancient WORLD SMASHER planet Theia – FOUND ON MOON
Traces of mysterious planet Theia have been found on the surface of Earth’s Moon. Boffins have analysed samples of rock brought back by Apollo astronauts, and claimed they contain bits of another world. The discovery appears to back up the… Read More ›
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest
Theories Describing Light and Matter Interactions Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light – a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. In just one day over several… Read More ›
Nazi Veterans Created Illegal Army
By Klaus Wiegrefe Newly discovered documents show that in the years after World War II, former members of the Nazi Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS formed a secret army to protect the country from the Soviets. The illegal project could have sparked… Read More ›
US VP Biden’s Son Joins the Board of Ukrainian Gas Company
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 Hunter Biden, son of US VP Joe Biden, is joining the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas producer. The group has prospects in eastern Ukraine where civil war is threatened following the… Read More ›
‘Don’t scream when you’re being robbed’, Brazil police tell World Cup fans
PUBLISHED : Monday, 12 May, 2014, 3:12am Brazilian police will distribute pamphlets to World Cup visitors advising them not to argue or scream when being robbed. The campaign was designed by the head of the committee created by police in… Read More ›
Plans for ‘black mass’ at Harvard anger Boston Catholics
Black mass at Harvard: CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) — A Harvard University student group plans to hold a re-enactment of a satanic ritual on the school’s historic campus, drawing criticism from local Roman Catholic officials, who expressed “deep sadness… Read More ›
Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?
The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of our position. A researcher from the University of Cádiz (Spain) questions this idea in view of the… Read More ›
Stimulated mutual annihilation / How to make a gamma-ray laser with positronium
Twenty years ago, Philip Platzman and Allen Mills, Jr. at Bell Laboratories proposed that a gamma-ray laser could be made from a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of positronium, the simplest atom made of both matter and antimatter (1). That was a… Read More ›
Snobby staff can boost luxury retail sales
Snobby staff can boost luxury retail sales // PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 29-Apr-2014 When it comes to luxury brands, the ruder the sales staff the better the sales, according to new research from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder… Read More ›
US Nuclear Fuel in Ukraine Risks Second Chernobyl – Scientists
MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) – The use of US-made fuel in nuclear power plants in Ukraine may lead to emergencies comparable in scale to the Chernobyl disaster, a group of veteran atomic scientists announced Friday. The use of US-made… Read More ›
Saturn’s hexagon: An amazing phenomenon
Researchers of the University of the Basque Country reveal some of the secrets of Saturn’s mysterious hexagonal wave, including its rotation period, which could be that of the planet itself
Analyst: EMP Attack Would Cripple U.S.
By Kells Hetherington WASHINGTON (VR) —The United States is ill prepared for an Electro Magnetic Pulse because the country’s electrical grid is not hardened as the Shield Act has proposed, according JD Gordon, a Foxnews.com Contributor and a Senior Fellow… Read More ›
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius being replaced by Sylvia Burwell ( Yes That One )
EEV: Repost from OCT 2013 Meet Sylvia Burwell, the woman who ordered the government shutdown By Elizabeth Chuck Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images Sylvia Mathews Burwell smiles as President Barack Obama announces her as his choice to be… Read More ›
Police search landfill for HK$28 million painting ‘after cleaners mistake it for rubbish’
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 09 April, 2014, 5:12am Shirley Zhao shirley.zhao@scmp.com Ng Kang Chung A police source said CCTV showed cleaners at the Grand Hyatt hotel dumping the painting Snowy Mountain Cleaners at the city’s Grand Hyatt hotel are suspected to… Read More ›
Gravity measurements confirm subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
California Institute of Technology This illustration depicts the possible interior of Enceladus based on Cassini’s gravity investigation. At high southern latitudes, a regional water ocean is shown sandwiched between an icy outer shell and a low density, rocky core…. Read More ›
Aviation regiment conducts actual-combat training
EEV: Only with respect, but we all have our fun moments when things just don’t look quite right. (Including myself) 😉
Celebrity cheating scandal boosts marriage insurance in China
(People’s Daily Online) 13:13, April 03, 2014 Various kinds of insurance policies in the name of “protecting marriage and love” have sprung up while rising divorce rates have been reported across the country in recent years.(File Photo) A Chinese actor’s… Read More ›
MH370 kept hidden at top-secret US military base – media reports
EEV: Basic conspiracy hypothesis, it is where this article is posted which is of interest. ( Voice of Russia, International Business Times ) © Photo: Voice of Russia The Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared three weeks ago, remains missing despite the… Read More ›
Rothschild inherits Patent after 4 co-owners disappear on MH 370 Flight
EEV: Currently single source info., which needs additional confirmation. ( deserves to be noted, even though odd ) Friday, 28 March 2014 The disappearance of four members of a patent semiconductor traveling on Malaysia Airlines MH370 makes the famous billionaire Jacob Rothschild the sole… Read More ›
‘License Plate Profiling’ in Idaho
By PHILIP A. JANQUART BOISE, Idaho (CN) – An Idaho state trooper arrested and searched a 70-year-old Washington man solely because of his license plate from Colorado, where marijuana is legal, the man claims in a federal lawsuit…. Read More ›
Engineering Evil 