PORTLAND, Ore. – Bigfoot hunters who want to use a helium-filled airship to comb the woods for sasquatch plan a day-long symposium in Portland later this month. The event is a fundraiser for the Falcon Project, billed by organizers as “the most penetrating search for the legendary sasquatch ever undertaken.” Olympia Beer will host [...]
Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea of virtual reality. “Lanier is often described as ‘visionary,’ ” Jennifer Kahn wrote in a 2011 New Yorker profile, “a word that manages to convey both a capacity for mercurial insight and [...]
Boing Boing net alerted me to these “up-sizing” of the quantum entanglement experiments… Quantum entanglement demonstrated in macroscopic objects By David Pescovitz at 12:24 pm Friday, Dec 2 A pair of diamond crystals, large enough to be seen by the naked eye, have been linked together by quantum entanglement. The diamonds are entangled such [...]
Daniel McAdams, LewRockwell.com April 8, 2009 It makes for a great story-line – the kind the international media embrace with relish: thrusting young Moldovans grab their iPhones, rush to the town square, and Twitter their way to a revolution against a Communist Party that had just stolen an election. The story-line has been written with [...]
Sci-fi writers join war on terror By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described “deviant” thinkers: science-fiction writers. “We spend our entire careers living in the future,” says author Arlan Andrews, one of a handful of [...]
Part One Katherine Albrecht speaks on microchips at Brave New Books in Austin, Texas along with Randall Mock, Lisa Marie Coppoletta, Judith McGeary, and Sheila Dean. Watch all the videos here at Anomaly TeleVision » Blog Archive » Dr. Katherine Albrecht Speaks on Microchips at Brave New Books 3/2/2009
Mind-Reading Infrared Device Knows If You Want a Milkshake | 80beats | Discover Magazine. In a new experiment, researchers didn’t have to ask their test subjects whether they’d prefer coffee or tea; instead, they just read their minds. With a nifty bit of technical wizardry, researchers beamed near-infrared light at the volunteers’ foreheads while asking [...]
Europe names crew for Mars ‘mission’. The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.From March 31, the six “crew” will be locked inside a special facility in Moscow that [...]
Few people know this but for a little while last year, the music-royalty rates that Web radio stations have complained about for years appeared to be behind them. In a midtown Manhattan law office last November 6, representatives from Webcasting companies and SoundExchange, the group that collects royalties for recording artists and labels, struck a [...]