But, let’s take a look at what Nikola Tesla — a man who died broke and alone — has actually given to the world. For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.
1. Alternating Current – This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago. 2. Light – Of course he didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed. 3. X-rays – ... Continue reading ...
"Figurines were thought to typically depict the female form, but our find is not only extraordinary in terms of quantity, but also quite diverse — male, female and non-gender specific ones have been found and several depict a hybrid human-bird figure," Yannis Hamilakis, co-director of the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography project, said in a statement.
"We still have a lot of work to do studying the figurines, but they should be able to give us an enormous amount o... Continue reading ...
I am not including this article to start any type or debate or argument, nor am I attacking an individual's faith based belief,,,BUT I am pointing out what many are attempting to get included into K-12 curriculum, which I am against as IMHO ALL mythology is just that mythology and has no place in the science classroom,,,would you want the Epic of Gilgamesh taught as evidence for the creation of man??
But I digress,,,since I hold all "religious" sacred texts to be mythology I include it here,,,... Continue reading ...
They're so much more fun. Here's a short list of things we could do if we brought back the Greek gods: • Go to oracles. • Go on quests. • Fight monsters. • Challenge gods to contests. • Go to Hades and try to rescue dead loved ones. • Dip babies in magic rivers, making them invulnerable.
The new insight, published in the December issue of the journal Antiquity, came because two archaeologists decided to use a decidedly low-tech method to understand the sand drawing's ancient secrets: by walking it.
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The Nazca Lines have been a mystery since they were first discovered in the 1920s by Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejía Xesspe. Long-forgotten people from the Nasca culture created the drawings between 200 B.C. and A.D. 500 by brushing away the dark top layer of barren de... Continue reading ...
The relatively diminutive pygmy right whale, which grows to just 21 feet (6.5 meters) long, lives out in the open ocean. The elusive marine mammals inhabit the Southern Hemisphere and have
only been spotted at sea a few dozen times. As a result, scientists know almost nothing about the species' habits or social structure.
The strange creature's arched, frownlike snout makes it look oddly different from other living whales. DNA analysis suggested pygmy right whales diverged from modern baleen ... Continue reading ...
This relates to an earlier post concerning how the ancients may have built the megalithic structures of old,,,posits an interesting but plausible explanation,,,
Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity.
,,,This indicates tectonic forces have acted in a north to south direction at Titan’s equatorial region and have resulted in regular effects in Titan’s crust, evidence that will help scientists better understand Titan’s crust and interior.
The myth's durability, Gordon says, stems from people's conceptions about their own brains: they see their own shortcomings as evidence of the existence of untapped gray matter. This is a false assumption. What is correct, however, is that at certain moments in anyone's life, such as when we are simply at rest and thinking, we may be using only 10 percent of our brains.
"It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the ti... Continue reading ...
Coral Castle, an impressive stone structure built by Edward Leedskalnin, south of Miami in Florida. Not surprisingly, Coral Castle has continued to mystify modern scientists as to the method used in its construction.
This device, part sci-fi, part-DIY, is providing the most detailed and high quality images ever taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software.
[,,,] He believes this was not just a case of the scribes having a bad day at the office. There seems to have been an unusual absence of scholarship, with no evidence of any lists of symbols or learning exercises for scribes to preserve the accuracy of the writing.
Known as the Nichoria bone, the blackened fossil is part of the thigh bone of an immense extinct mammal that roamed southern Greece perhaps a million years ago. The bone was collected by ancient Greeks and may have even helped inspire certain beasts in Greek classical mythology. It was then rediscovered 40 years ago.
[,,,] "Most likely, the ancient Greeks found the bone in the lignite deposits of the Megalopolis basin, known in antiquity as the 'Battleground of the Giants.' There, the dense co... Continue reading ...
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”
[,,,]The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, Dr. King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology a... Continue reading ...
The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the "letters" of all matter. Just like their linguistic counterparts, they appear to have no further internal substructure. String theory proclaims otherwise. According to string theory, if we could examine these particles with even greater precision—a precision many orders of magnitude beyond our present technological capacity—we would find that each is not pointlike ... Continue reading ...
How much can we know of the world? Some believe we can go all the way and find the answers to the most penetrating questions, at least those concerned with the natural world. Others think there is only so much we can know, that there are some very concrete limits to how much information we can gather about reality. These limits are not just a consequence of our brains or the tools we use to extract knowledge. They are Nature’s trademarks.
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,,,Recent evidence suggests that music that appears complex to the ears but can be easily deciphered by the brain — many classical compositions, for example — rate the most enjoyable.
[,,,] Hudson used music compression programs to mimic how the brain condenses audio information to analyze a sampling of songs used by another research team in a 2009 study that measured how 26 subjects enjoyed various music genres , including classical, jazz, pop, folk, electronica, rock, punk, techno and tan... Continue reading ...
The results of recent research suggests that ancient, or prehistoric, builders of the monumental structures found in such diverse places as Ireland, Malta, southern Turkey and Peru all have a peculiarly common characteristic -- they may have been specially designed to conduct and manipulate sound to produce certain sensory effects.
[,,,] Now, scientists are suggesting that certain sound vibration frequencies created when sound is emitted within its walls are actually altering human brain funct... Continue reading ...
I find the hollow earth idea fascinating,,,implausible but,,,intriguing to read the mind-bends tho,,,
The idea that the Earth is hollow is an outlandish one, on a par, many would argue, with a belief that the Earth is flat. There isn't much in the way of evidence, except for some unverifiable stories and a few highly contested photos that purport to show the hole at the North Pole. (There is supposedly a matching hole at the South Pole.) But the notion of a hollow Earth has persisted over the ... Continue reading ...
We drove across the Columbia River and continued eastward, dropping into Moses Coulee, a canyon with vertical walls of layered basalt. We gathered the students on a small rise and asked them how the canyon had formed. They immediately ruled out wind and glaciers. The valley was not U-shaped like a typical glacial valley, and none of us could imagine how wind might gouge a canyon out of hard basalt. But neither were there rivers or streams. After a while I pointed out that we were standing on ... Continue reading ...
There should be a caveat of YET at the end,,,science is not the end all-be all, but a starting point for eliminating what it is not,,,i think eventually science will be able to explain some of these things, but one has to remember that science deals with facts, not truth,,,
A new study by musicologists in Europe suggests that the shape of our ear canals, as well as our own perceptions, is to blame for our distaste in such shrill sounds.
[,,,] Interestingly, the most painful frequencies were not the highest or lowest, but instead were those that were between 2,000 and 4,000 Hz. The human ear is most sensitive to sounds that fall in this frequency range, said Michael Oehler, professor of media and music management at the University of Cologne in Germany, who was one... Continue reading ...
The world is full of mysteries, and the human race loves nothing better than to find answers to them. Frequently, though, the answers aren't as popular as the mysteries themselves, and people will just continue right on believing, even when the evidence is right there, why don't you just look?! Just look, you bastard!
Oh really,,,I have a hard time believing that people such as Linda Moulton Howe, Stanton Friedman, Paul Eno, John Zaffis, Whitley Strieber, etc are so easily fooled,,,,
For those that have heard my TOTO episodes on Pic de Bugarach, the
Cathars were mentioned in regards to Daniel Bettex (the Bettex Affair - see: pt 2 show notes, the Philip Coppens article referenced gives awesome info),,,so my
interest was piqued,,,
,,,few individuals were more colourful
than a dark-haired, green-eyed young man named Otto Wilhelm Rahn. His
gaunt figure, swathed in characteristic black coat and fedora, casts a
long shadow out of those twilight years, a ‘great silhouette... Continue reading ...
As part of the discussion of issues surrounding travel to other stars; the subject was broached regarding how the discovery of E.T. would affect religion as well as more defined questions such as, who did Jesus die for if there is in fact, life on other planets?
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Here’s how the debate goes: If the whole of creation includes 125 billion galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars in each, as astronomers think, then what if some of these stars have planets with advanced civilizations,... Continue reading ...