Via The Eternities: In his latest book, Supernormal – Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities, Dean Radin asks if humankind possesses latent psychic potential, presenting supportive new evidence that,…
Aug 1, 2013
They flag users who search for “suspicious stuff”? I’m screwed. You might as well join me. Via Slate: If you have ever searched the Internet for something the NSA has deemed “suspicious,”…
Michael “Moneyball” Lewis has written a lengthy article for Vanity Fair in which he suggests that ex-Goldman Sachs employee Sergey Aleynikov may not have done too much to deserve a jail sentence…
Uruguayan lawmakers say that creating a legal marijuana market will save money and lives. Via The Guardian: Uruguay’s unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market has taken its critical first step…
Thankfully, this is a speech that the monarch never had to make. Or at least, not yet. Via the BBC: Although it was only a simulation, the text of the Queen’s address…
Robot octopus? Wonder how long it seeks revenge for all of its grilled brethren? Via Scientific American: Researchers in Greece, however, have made a robot octopus that can propel itself through the…
Via America blog: France’s gayest anti-gay group, Hommen, is at it again. When they’re not protesting against gay rights, the shirtless, buff, hairless boys of Hommen enjoy forming dogpiles, climbing giant poles…
Via the Guardian, the curtain keeps pulling back to reveal ever-greater levels of total surveillance: The National Security Agency boasts in training materials that a program called XKeyscore is its “widest-reaching” system for…
“Hey! No shirts, no service… Oh.” One of two drunk, shirtless, and armed sheriff’s deputies equipped with bullet-proof vests who came wandering into a convenience store at three in the morning decided…
Last year, the BBC reported on a case where four family members were found guilty of murder. The victim, Naila Mumtaz, an expectant mother, was found smothered in the home she shared…
Cops and robbers, via Information Liberation: There were at least two reports of men with police badges, bullet proof vests and guns posing as police officers and robbing unsuspecting drivers at gunpoint….
It must be a relief to finally leave purgatory, but is Edward Snowden entering Heaven or Hell? From Russia Today:
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is allowed to enter the country’s territory.
The whistleblower has been granted temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden’s legal representative Anatoly Kucherena said.
“I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service. They are what he needs to leave the transit zone,” he added.
Kucherena showed a photocopy of the document to the press….
The obvious question is, if this indeed is Jesus’s blood, would lab testing identify it? Via Brazil Weird News: In the parish Maria Madre de la Iglesia (city of Guadalajara), the priest…