time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
I’m going to be up front with you: This one’s a bit weirder than usual. How familiar are you with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu? A Japanese pop star with a penchant for the grotesque and the obscure. A singer, a model, a…blogger, or so Wikipedia tells me. She’s been compared to Lady Gaga, and if you …
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The Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico was evacuated and closed on September 6, and no one knows why. It’s been over a week now, and details have not been forthcoming. According to an initial report by the Alamogordo Daily News, officials stated the observatory was shut down due to a “security issue,” with the …
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How much do you trust what you see? How about what you hear? Several months ago, I posted about Face2Face, a program that allows for the manipulation of video in real time to change and animate facial expressions. It’s an interesting technology, but also concerning – all you have to do is watch this video …
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Do not adjust your browsers – apparently, there’s a real concern out there that September 2015 will bring with it the end of the world. How? Well, we have a few major things to worry about, if – if – we’re willing to believe what’s out there. I’ll let you decide for yourself, as usual. Let’s …
The Fermi paradox asks a simple question: if there are so many planets and stars in the universe, why have we found no trace of an extraterrestrial civilization? Where is everyone? A possible answer to this, given by physicist John Brandenburg, is that these civilizations are being hunted, and we may be next.
As though there was ever any doubt regarding the existence of everyone’s favorite alien conspiracy hotspot, recently-released CIA documents have confirmed that Area 51 is, indeed, very real.
The Monarch Butterfly. Every year, millions of these golden-winged insects migrate south to a small area of pine groves in central Mexico, which consists of only about 70 square miles. The process of this journey has amazed scientists for years, because the time it takes for the migration to occur is actually longer than the …
