Tiny, delicate vessels that carried blood through a duck-billed dinosaur 80 million years ago never fossilized and still contain the beast’s tissue, a new study finds. http://www.livescience.com/53032-dinosaur-blood-vessels.html
Sensory deprivation tanks aka flotation tanks are probably best known to the general populace by the part they played in the film Altered States – where they are used, in conjunction with hallucinogenic drugs by psychology professor Edward Jessup (played by… Continue Reading
A fisherman in a cave outside Chongqing in southwestern China stepped on something “soft” and “slimy,” and also rare, as it turns out. Wang Yong discovered a Chinese giant salamander that is estimated to be 200 years old, according to… Continue Reading
Last fall, we reported on the revelation that tardigrades, already known for being indestructible, are also about 16% not-tardigrade. They have quite a bit of foreign DNA in their genome, and scientists aren’t sure why it’s there. Now scientists have… Continue Reading
Ladies of Force and Fire Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus Do… Continue Reading
Readers of weird Fortean humor can celebrate the Year of the Monkey with a copy of Richard Kaczynski’s novel The Billionth Monkey. Between February 6–9, the ebook is discounted to $0.99 (iBook, Nook and Kindle). The Billionth Monkey follows the… Continue Reading
Just in time for the release of the movie “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151217160946.htm
Smithsonian Magazine just ran an intriguing article about current scientific reevaluation of the work and significance of mediaeval alchemists. In part it poses: “…in the 1980s, some revisionist scholars began arguing that alchemists actually made significant contributions to the development… Continue Reading
Thelema Now favorite Peter Levenda – prominent player on the NYC occult scene in the 1970’s – returns to talk about his latest book, The Tantric Alchemist: Thomas Vaughan and the Indian Tantric Tradition. Find out how what you don’t know… Continue Reading
Two design students in Copenhagen,Sergey Komardenkov and Vihanga Gore, have come up with a way to convert heat energy into electricity, rather than letting it go to waste. Smithsonian tells us: “Though Heat Harvest is still speculative, the technology to… Continue Reading