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The Mystery Of The Beast
Part 13(C)
The Beast & 666
This article is an excerpt from an upcoming book entitled "The Unveiling" by novelist and spiritual teacher JJ Dewey. In this series of articles one of the most interesting and controverisal of all the Christian scriptures -- The Book Of Revelations -- you will find the mystery of "The Beast," "The Mark," and "The Number" revealed and explained in a new and unique way found nowhere else before. Read the article.
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Atlantis Found?
The legend of Atlantis has captured the imagination of scholars for centuries. When data from The possibility of an extraordinary discovery captivated oceanographers and geophysicists when a "grid" of a perfect rectangle consisting of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, enclosed by the boundary about the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3 miles down at a location suggested by Plato. The "grid" showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys. Read full article.
Hidden Meaning In Dreams?
A new study published in the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" suggests that humans from a wide range of cultures believe their dreams are a window into the inner workings of the mind and that they may even influence our activities while we're awake. People consider dreams to be serious stuff. But do they really mean anything? Freud called dreams the "royal road to the unconscious," and for more than a century now, researchers have tried to travel down that road. We know now that dreams do mean something, and they are universal. Read the full article.
Has The Garden Of Eden Been Found?
On a summer day in 1994, an old, solitary Kurdish sheperd may have made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years. Others would say he'd made the greatest archaeological discovery ever: a site that has revolutionized the way we look at human history, the origin of religion -- and perhaps even the truth behind the Garden of Eden -- a Turkish Stonehenge that is much older than the pyramids at Giza and the ledgendary Stonehenge itself. Read the full article.
New Research Helps Predict Stock Market
Researchers from Massey University have found that analysing data on a daily basis or other shorter intervals -- rather than monthly - offers a much higher success rate of stock market predictions. Traditionally, institutional investors, such as hedge funds or mutual and pension funds, try to predict stock markets one month ahead relying on information also measured at monthly levels. The academic researchers have moved away from that convention with what they have described as "amazing results." Read the full article.
More On Floating Cities
A floating city off the coast of San Francisco may sound like science fiction, but it could be reality in the not-too-distant future -- three years away in fact. The Seasteading Institute already has drawn up plans for the construction of a homestead on the Pacific Ocean. One project engineer described the prototype as similar to a cruise ship, but from a distance the cities might look like oil-drilling platforms. According to the plans, the floating cities would not only look different from their land-based counterparts, but they might operate differently, too. Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, said floating cities are the perfect places to experiment with new forms of government. Read the full article.
Can A Dietary Supplement Prevent Hearing Loss?
Many people take a vitamin each morning to maintain good nutrition, energy, bone strength, and overall health. Can popping a pill also protect our hearing against damage caused by loud noises from such things as a night of listening to loud music at a concert? Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Florida, together with the biosciences company OtoMedicine have reason to believe so. Read full article.
Is It True Your Looks Reveal Your Real Personality?
The idea that a person's character can be glimpsed in their face dates back to the ancient Greeks. It was most famously popularised in the late 18th century by the Swiss poet Johann Lavater, whose ideas became a talking point in intellectual circles. In Darwin's day, they were more or less taken as given. It was only after the subject became associated with phrenology, which fell into disrepute in the late 19th century, that physiognomy was written off as pseudoscience. Now the field is undergoing something of a revival. Researchers around the world are re-evaluating what we see in a face, investigating whether it can give us a glimpse of someone's personality or even help to shape their destiny. Read full article.
Electrical Malfunction Delays Quest For The Origins Of The Universe
The 5 billion dollar Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located along the French-Swiss border, is designed to smash beams of protons into each other, test fundamental physics theories, and help understand the nature of matter. However, operations were suspended last September after a transformer malfunction in its cooling system allowed a helium leak--just nine days after the controversial project became operational. After several changes in re-startup dates, CERN's head of communications, James Gillies, told ZDNet, UK that the new plan was to restart the LHC in late summer. Estimated cost of repair is said to be around 16 million dollars. Read full article.
Was "Green Magic" Used To Protect Mummified Egyptian Children?
A rare mummified child from the early period of Egyptian history was discovered buried with a bright green amulet stone once believed to hold magical powers. The finds help to explain why hieroglyphics and historical texts record that Egyptian children wore green eye makeup. It also adds to the growing body of evidence that ancient Egyptians thought color itself held sacred energy that could help or hurt individuals. Read full article.
Live Free Or Drown: Floating Utopias On The Cheap
Patri Friedman, a former Google software engineer, wants to make it easy for anyone to build an independent country: "If we make one seastead, there's room for thousands." Friedman is executive director of the Seasteading Institute, the nonprofit he founded in April 2008. They see their task not as a holy mission but as something like a startup. A couple of software engineers came up with an innovative concept, then outsourced it to a community and let the wisdom of the crowd improve on it. They scored financing from a top-tier venture capitalist and assembled a board of directors. They will be transparent, blogging their progress. If they fail -- which, let's face it, is the most likely outcome -- they will do so quickly, in time-honored Valley fashion. But if they succeed, they have one hell of an exit strategy. Read complete article.
Seasteading: A Practical Guide To Homesteading The High Seas
Imagine the tremendous possibility of being able to create new acreage on the vast and empty oceans. The environment may be less friendly, but the increased freedom will appeal to a motivated minority who are fed up with terrestrial politics. These aquatic pioneers will settle civilization's next frontier through the unusual merger of green technology and free enterprise. Once there, they will experiment with new social, political, and economic systems, adding much-needed variety and innovation to the stagnant business of government. Read the book for free online.
Seasteading Institute
Patri Friedman and Wayne Gramlich concluded that interest in seasteading movement had reached the point where it was worth creating a formal organization as a vehicle for fundraising and research. So the founded a nonprofit organization, The Seasteading Institute. Its mission is to "establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems." Visit the Seasteading Institute online.
Why So Many Minds Think Alike?
You're in a room with 10 other people who seem to agree on something, but you hold the opposite view. Do you say something? Or do you just go along with the others? Decades of research show people tend to go along with the majority view, even if that view is objectively incorrect. Now, scientists are supporting those theories with brain images. Read the complete article.
Coffee-Induced Hallucinations?
Java is known to give some people the jitters if they drink too much of it. But can it also trigger hallucinations? It may if you consume enough of it, say British psychologists, who report in the journal "Personality and Individual Differences" this week that college students they studied said they sometimes heard faux voices after chugging at least seven cups of coffee daily. Read the complete article.
Did Moon Maps Exist Before Galileo?
"Moon maps" created by a little-known Englishman 400 years ago are to go on display to mark the launch of the International Year of Astronomy. Experts say they prove their creator -- Thomas Harriot -- beat Galileo to become the first man to view the Moon through a telescope. Read the complete article.
Predictions for 2009 from "Coast-To-Coast"
Best 50 Astronomy Pictures of Year 2008
Astronomy, seems a small word. But this is an word which contains the universe. It is so, I called it seems a small word in the first sentence. Astronomy is beautiful science, it is the thing which attracts everyone. If you think about the solar system, galaxy to the UFO's everything are very interesting.
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Top Ten Strangest Things In The Universe
The more we look among the stars and galaxies, the weirder things seem to get. Even space itself is puzzling, for example. Recent studies suggest that the fabric of the universe stretches more than 150 billion light-years across -- in spite of the fact that the cosmos is 13.7 billion years old. From super-fast stars to the nature of matter, here we cover other strange and mysterious elements of the universe. Read full article and view images.
Swiss Watch Found In 400-Year-Old Tomb
Archeologists in China are baffled after finding a tiny Swiss watch in a 400-year-old tomb. Read article and view image of watch.
Investigating Near Death Experiences
The afterlife has long been an article of religious faith. And now scientists are finally putting the idea to the test. Read the full article.
Psychic Who Predicted Meltdown
This woman knows nothing about finance yet claims she can predict turmoil in the markets months before it happens. Don't believe her? Many blue-chip companies do -- and pay handsomely for her "intuition." Read the full article.
Mini Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. Read the full article.
Technology From 1833 May Solve Energy Problems
In the early 1800s, during the peak of the Industrial Revolution, modern science revolved around steam engines and other coal-powered applications. So it may seem a bit out of place that, in 1833, an Italian physicist named G. D. Botto was performing experiments on a technique for generating hydrogen. Read the full article.