2019-03-01
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Santa’s Psilocybin Secret: the Alternate History of the Tradition behind Santa Claus
December 24, 2017Most of us are familiar with how the legend of Santa Claus evolved, having descended from the traditions of Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century saint famous for his charity work and gift-giving, along with all of the details that have been... continued
World’s Smallest Greeting Card joins World’s Smallest Snowman in Wishing You “Seasons Greetings”
December 23, 2017The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK has created the world's smallest Christmas card, and at a mere 15 microns wide by 20 microns tall (0.015 by 0.020 millimeters), it out-miniaturizes last season's 30-micron (0.030 millimeter) World's Smallest Snowman.... continued
Carbon Nanotubes make for Super-Strong Spider Silk
December 22, 2017A professor of solid and structural mechanics at the University of Trento in Italy has come up with a way of combining natural spider silk and artificial graphene-based nanoparticles to produce a lightweight material three times stronger than steel. What's... continued
Polar Vortex Forecast to Push Cold Weather South for Christmas
December 21, 2017A major cold snap is forecast to push south into the contiguous United States over the Christmas holidays, with regions between North Dakota and Colorado experiencing temperatures 20ºF to 40ºF below normal over Christmas Eve. Conversely, the east coast may... continued
Trump Administration Bans Key Words from CDC Budget Documents
December 20, 2017In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Truth constricted the vocabulary used by the population in an attempt to narrow the individual's range of thought. And it would appear that the Trump administration is copying this move from... continued
“I want to fly one”: One US Navy Pilot’s encounter with a UFO
December 19, 2017Over the weekend, the New York Times published an article regarding a series of videos released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that depict unidentified flying objects, recorded by ATFLIR equipment aboard Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. In... continued
New York Times: Pentagon Admits Secret UFO Program, Releases Authenticated UFO VIdeo
December 17, 2017The New York Times has just published a story detailing how the US Defense Department has been carrying out an extensive program of observation and study of UFOs for years while publicly claiming it had no interest in the subject. Consistent... continued
Deep Resonance: The Hum of the Earth has been Recorded from the Ocean Floor
December 16, 2017Despite the trials and tribulations experienced by humanity, the Earth itself continues to hum along through space -- quite literally, as researchers have made new recordings of the faint, yet steady low-level hum the Earth generates, using sensitive seismic instruments... continued
Footage of a Starving Polar Bear Graphically Illustrates the Impact of Global Warming on Animals in the Arctic
December 15, 2017 Warning: The video attached to this article will be a heartbreaker for some readers. A chance encounter between a malnourished polar bear and the conservation group Sea Legacy provided photographer Paul Nicklen with the chance to document the sad state... continued
The 1998-2012 Global Warming Pause Didn’t Happen, according to a New Study
December 14, 2017A new study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Tsinghua University in Beijing has found that the global warming pause that was supposed to have occurred between 1998 and 2012 didn't actually happen. The discrepancy was apparently due to... continued