You don’t necessarily discover something new every day, but if you’re lucky, mebbe very week? Month? As is my wont, I was reading back issues of the New York Times and came upon a supplement titled “Carnival In Winter.” This… Continue Reading
Israeli daily newspaper Ha’Aretz reports that Israeli scientists have produced a murine homunculus (if you’ll allow the usage; this means viable mouse embryo). Their story begins: “In Jacob Hanna’s lab at the Weizmann Institute, for the first time in the… Continue Reading
Obviously you’re aware of the descent and touchdown on Mars of the rover Perseverance. You may have noticed the signage on display in the mission’s control center. If not — have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg. Besides “Mars 2020” there’s logos for… Continue Reading
Kenneth Anger is a seminal American underground filmmaker and admitted follower of the teachings of Aleister Crowley. His first public screening was arranged by Harry Smith. He is one of the first filmmakers to depict live ritual being performed, and… Continue Reading
The Times of Israel reported on a tween discovering a 2500 year old fertility amulet while on a family hike. Part of the story reads: “’The figurine that Zvi discovered is rare and only one such example exists in the… Continue Reading
UK occult publishers Scarlet Imprint have announced that ordering has opened for the fine edition of The Two Antichrists by Peter Grey. The Abaddon edition is strictly limited to 77 copies bound in full silvered black morocco, with silver edges… Continue Reading
The New York Times was one of many outlets that ran a story on the return of a mosaic that belonged to the Roman Emperor Caligula, notorious as one of the more licentious and cruel rulers of the Roman Empire.… Continue Reading
Asharq Al Aswat (among many other outlets) ran a story about archaeological finds in Egypt pertaining to a Christian Monastic community in the 5th century. Just for context sake I’ll point out that this is the same century when the… Continue Reading
I was reading the New York Times Book Review, a discussion of Paul Farmer’s Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds about the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which depicts that tragedy being primarily due to the lack of adequate medical care, and not the… Continue Reading
Plos.org recently published an article about a massacre that occurred in Croatia nearly 6,200 years ago. The introduction reads: “Violence on a massive scale has been present in human societies for at least 13,000 years as evidenced by numerous skeletons… Continue Reading