Thursday, 08. November 2007
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What To Do Before the Asteroid Strikes by Discover Magazine.
The doomsday rock is out there. It’s just a matter of time ...
Apophis is one of millions of asteroids roaming the solar system. None are known to pose an immediate threat, but some are bona fide civilization stompers. A monster rock discovered just this year, with the prosaic name of 2007PA8, is more than two miles across, large enough to wipe out most of humanity. Fortunately, the odds that it will hit are essentially zero. Smaller asteroids are less deadly but much more common.

Revealed: What IS the secret of Silbury Hill? by Daily Mail.
... it is from these peoples, who built Silbury and Stonehenge, that most British people today are descended. But as to why our ancestors built these huge monuments, we can only guess. Stonehenge was certainly some sort of astronomical instrument - and the various standing stones not only of Wiltshire but further west in Cornwall and to the far south in Brittany, France, may similarly have served some sort of astronomical purpose. But Silbury? The official line from Jim Leary and his colleagues is that it must have been inspired by "ritual".

The black cat: Mystery, myth and symbolism by The Advertiser.
No other kind of cat, whether purebred or moggie, is more steeped in myth and mystery than the black cat. From the basic good luck-bad luck premise to elaborate symbolism associated with different countries, black cats have been a part of the cultural history of the world since the dawn of recorded time. Without a doubt, the most common association is of witches and black cats as their familiars, along with frogs, birds and snakes. Pagan religions in Europe had witchcraft as their dominant belief and were associated with animals of nature, including cats.

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Any life on Mars came from Earth by Pravda.
Recently, the headlines are filled with statements from NASA that soil on Mars may contain microbial life. What if this is true after all? Would such a discovery confirm evolutionary theory? No. First, such a discovery would not prove that such life had evolved from non-living matter by chance natural processes. And even if we do find evidence of life on Mars it would have most likely have come from our very own planet - Earth!

Homegrown Hauntings by Minnesota Daily.
he paranormal - it's all a crock, right? I'm sure paranormal researcher Chad Lewis must hear some version of that question all the time. It seems the public is both fascinated by and skeptical about the existence of the paranormal and just what it means for whatever comes next for those of us who leave this world.

One I missed:
The woman with odd hair by VietNamNet Bridge.
This strange hair has caused many troubles for Ms. Mau. She has planned to cut it several times but each time she planned to do that, her head began to hurt painfully, like someone tightened a rope around her head.
When the hair began to clot, Ms. Mau always heard a crackling sound from her hair, which was sometimes low and sometimes high, depending on her health. According to Mau, she didn’t pay attention to that sound but when knowing that it came from her hair, she was very scared.

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If We Had No Moon by Astrobiology Magazine.
The Earth has a large moon, making it unique in the inner solar system. Mercury and Venus have no moons, and Mars has only two small asteroid-sized objects orbiting it. In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion. Would life have evolved differently, or even appeared on Earth without the Moon?


And last but not least - is baby bigfoot caught on video?
Keith Olbermann on MSNBC:



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