Good god, y’all. Absolutely everything, and you’ll agree after feasting your eyes upon Andreas Sommer’s latest essay. Apparently the backwards forebearers of science were onto something, even if it eschewed logic for intuition. Facing down an increasingly creaky scientific infrastructure, Andreas argues for its revitalization by considering those old, intuitive leaps to spur innovation then […]

In four cities that are home to more than 30 million people, each household is given a so-called passport. It permits one person to leave every two days.

Our UK friends may be especially interested to read this piece by Dr Andreas Sommer, a German “historian working on the interrelations of the sciences and magic.” Sommer is living in the UK, where he feels that the population has “a much more relaxed attitude to ghosts than in Germany.” Nonetheless we hear of Ghost […]

Those who forget, or are ignorant of, the past are doomed to repeat it. Such is the case with Neil Tyson, Stephen Pinker, et al. who are clearly enlightened by their own intelligence. Their perceptions and opinions of the past illustrate their ignorance, and Joanna Edge decides to set them straight on their conveniently dismissed […]

There’s a laundry list of reasons as to why urine is nature’s elixir for good health. Why if you’re not using it every day, you might as well be flushing it down the toilet! Hydration is key to longevity, and Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris waxes poetic upon the benefits of this golden nectar based upon generations […]

Easter weekend is fast approaching with all the fondant-filled Creme Eggs, sticky hot cross buns and sugar-coated Mini Eggs our stretchiest waistbands can withstand.  Of course, the  Christian festival is far more than its associated confectionery. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ who, according to the New Testament, died on the cross on Good Friday and came back […]

Speaking for myself, if you care, I’ve learned never to trust party lines since they’re written by the victors. These winners are pushing an agenda, and amidst vanquished enemies, the new battle’s all about “hearts and minds” than hard facts. Fortunately anomalists and forteans alike are skeptical, looking beyond burnished mounds of bullshit for their […]

(484) 597-3049 1. i was leaving my boyfriends house late at night to go home. 2. i was coming from up a hill and saw a giant object/vehicle on the road taking it all up. 3. i thought at first maybe it was some late night street cleaning or construction vehicle. when i got closer i […]

China’s information blackout about the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests took a new turn on Monday: users of a popular social media app could not send each other money transfers alluding to the anniversary date. Open discussion of the brutal crackdown is forbidden in China, where hundreds — by some estimates more than a […]