Stranger News
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* "The Nikola Tesla interview hidden for 116 years!" [archive.is/19hPu]
Once, in 1899, Nikola Tesla had an interview with a certain journalist, John Smith, when Tesla said, “Everything is the light.” From the interview -
Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring around Saturn.
Mankind is not ready for the great and good. In Colorado Springs I soaked the earth by electricity. Also we can water the other energies, such as positive mental energy. They are in the music of Bach or Mozart, or in the verses of great poets. In the Earth’s interior, there are energy of Joy, Peace and Love. Their expressions are a flower that grows from the Earth, the food we get out of her and everything that makes man’s homeland. I’ve spent years looking for the way that this energy could influence people. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Why did God create Atheists? [archive.is/PLXN3], a reflection on morality.
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* "Coma patient ‘regains full consciousness’ following novel ultrasound procedure" (2016-09-25, rt.com) [archive.is/7Aw8X]
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* "This all-analog DNA circuit calculates without going digital" (2016-08-23, techcrunch.com) [archive.is/nVypd]
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* "German student creates electromagnetic harvester that gathers free electricity from thin air" (2013-02-12, extremetech.com) [archive.is/Eu1f8]
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Space News
* " ‘Primordial soup’ theory doesn’t hold up, study says. Instead, life might have first emerged elsewhere" (2016-08-16, zmescience.com) [archive.is/xTlQi]
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* " ‘Proxima b’ move-in ready? Closest ever Earth-like planet confirmed by scientists" (2016-08-24, rt.com) [archive.is/QfOlL]
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Ancient News
* "Bananas Are Clones From the Stone Age" (2013-12-19, guardianlv.com) [archive.is/uQDtG]
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* "New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago" (2004-11-18, sciencedaily.com) [archive.is/A9d9]
* "The Death of the Bering Strait Theory" (2016-08-12, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com) [archive.is/9TpKO]
* "Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor" (2016-09-01, nature.com) [archive.is/7RY4U]
* " 'Great Surprise' —Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins Oldest human genome reveals less of an East Asian ancestry than thought" (2013-11-20, news.nationalgeographic.com) [archive.is/HiwBb]
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* "World's oldest pyramids are discovered" (1996-11-19, independent.co.uk) [archive.is/bX4v2]: Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest pyramids - on the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil. Like the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, the South American ones seem to have been built for religious purposes. Some contain hundreds of human burials, complete with spectacular grave goods - including stone plaques, shell breast plates and beautifully made stone birds, fish, whales and other animals.
But although the functions of the Brazilian and Egyptian pyramids were to some extent the same, there was certainly no contact between ancient Egypt and Brazil, and the concept of building pyramids was invented quite independently in both places.
Dating from 3000BC, the oldest of the Brazilian pyramids predate the earliest Egyptian example by several hundred years. The construction techniques were also markedly different, each Egyptian pyramid being built in one operation, while the Brazilian ones were each built in several phases, possibly over many decades or even centuries. And, unlike the Egyptian stone pyramids, the Brazilian ones were built exclusively of sea shells.
That is why archaeologists in the past had never realised what they were. For years Brazilian prehistorians had thought that the sites were simply immense piles of domestic rubbish from settlements.
But research carried out over the past four years has revealed that the "piles of ancient rubbish" were in fact deliberately built square structures of roughly pyramidic design.
Initial research suggests that some of the structures were originally move 160ft high with bases covering up to 37 acres. And in terms of volume, they were much bigger than the earliest examples in Egypt, and almost as high.
The archaeologists estimate that originally there were around a thousand Brazilian pyramids - some apparently 5,000 years old, others less ancient - of which fewer than 10 per cent survive in various states of preservation.
Up to this century most had survived, but between the Twenties and the Sixties they were used as a source of raw material for road construction. One of the largest surviving examples - near the town of Jaguaruna in the Brazilian state of Santa Catatina - still covers 25 acres and stands 100ft high - perhaps up to 65ft less than its original height.
Archaeological research is now even showing that some of the Brazilian pyramids - like their Mexican counterparts - had structures on top of them, although the Brazilian examples are up to 3,000 years older than the ones in Central America.
"Our new research shows that Brazil's prehistoric Indians 5,000 years ago were more sophisticated than we had thought and were capable of producing truly monumental structures," said Professor Edna Morley, the director of the Instituto do Patrinionio Historico e Artistico National (National Heritage Institute) in Santa Catarina where most of the Brazilian pyramids have been discovered.
"These massive structures will help revolutionise the way we think about ancient Indian cultures," she said.
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* "Pre-Hispanic Mexican civilization may have bred and managed rabbits and hares; Ancient Teotihuacan rabbits, hares ate human-farmed crops, may indicate small mammal husbandry; Pre-Hispanic Mexican civilization may have bred and managed rabbits and hares Ancient Teotihuacan rabbits, hares ate human-farmed crops, may indicate small mammal husbandry" (2016-08-17, sciencedaily.com) [archive.is/MVORZ]
* "Suppression of Mayan Astronomy" (2016-08-24, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com) [archive.is/RY2Nx]
* "An ancient Mayan Copernicus: Scholar says ancient hieroglyphic texts reveal Mayans made major discovery in math, astronomy" (2016-08-16, University of California - Santa Barbara) [archive.is/18xap]
* "Mayans may have been better at math and astronomy than we thought" (2016-08-17, zmescience.com) [archive.is/8WLYW]
* "Hieroglyphic texts reveal Maya innovation in maths and astronomy" (2016-08-17, pasthorizonspr.com) [archive.is/Gbsxv], photo caption: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, first panel on left, and the first three pages of the Table. Image courtesy of University of California – Santa Barbara
* "First Maya tomb and hieroglyph panels found in Belize tell story of iconic civilisation; Panels are some of the missing fragments from a long-lost hieroglyphic stair" (2016-08-03, ibtimes.co.uk) [archive.is/BH5qn]
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Pre-1900 UFO Cases [archive.is/oA41h], examples:
- "The First Recorded UFO Sighting in The USA - 1639 Boston" [archive.is/9tcS9]
- "Two Large Glowing Wheels Over Hamburg Germany 1697" [archive.is/lDeiD]
- "German Immigrant Has Incredible UFO Sighting, NY 1790" [archive.is/5Zi8e]
- "Electrical Monster Awakens Fishing Crew in 1893" [archive.is/jQDlB]
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* "1952 Washington D.C. Sightings" (ufocasebook.com) [archive.is/lYQqK]
* "The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incident" (science.howstuffworks.com) pg. 5 [archive.is/bUU1T]
* "UFOs: Disclosure Is Coming" (2013-06-10, huffingtonpost.com) [archive.is/Hw0td] [begin excerpt]: Did you know there was a fleet of UFOs that flew over the White House on July 12, 1952? It's known as the "1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Incident," the "Washington Flap" or the "Washington National Airport Sightings." There were a series of reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over D.C. Yep, more than two weeks of UFO sightings over our nation's capitol. [end excerpt]
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