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 Columnist: Patrick Bernauw |
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 The Satanist Chaplain
Posted on Saturday, 4 July, 2009| 4:53 | Comments: 0
Patrick Bernauw: In 1891 Joris-Karl Huysmans published his novel "Là-bas" in which he paints a fantasy of Satanism and the occult, such as it was reportedly still practiced at that time in Paris. One of the most sinister figures however, the so-called "canon Docre", turned out to be Louis Van Haecke, chaplain of the Holy Blood Chapel of Bruges...
In 1891 Joris-Karl Huysmans published his novel "Là-bas" (translated as "Down There" or "The Damned") in which he painted a fanta...
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Space and Astronomy |
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 Moon probe returns first images
Posted on Saturday, 4 July, 2009| 4:49 | Comments: 3
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has succeeded in capturing and sending back the first images of the lunar surface since its arrival on June 23rd. The data collected will help pick future landing sites for manned missions....
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Science and Technology |
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 Hope for amputees in salamander research
Posted on Saturday, 4 July, 2009| 4:46 | Comments: 0
Scientists who have been studying the way in which salamanders regenerate lost limbs have provided hope for amputees, the reptiles are able to grow back limbs via cells that recall how to make bone, muscle and other tissue....
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Cryptozoology, Myths and Legends |
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 Bigfoot sighting is man in costume
Posted on Saturday, 4 July, 2009| 4:43 | Comments: 2
A woman who had been driving along a road in Connecticut this week called the police to report an 8-foot tall ape-like creature standing in the middle of the road. The mysterious ape-man turned out to be someone in a gorilla costume....
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Natural World |
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 Ant mega-colony takes over world
Posted on Friday, 3 July, 2009| 5:13 | Comments: 25
A single colony of ants has colonised most of the planet according to scientists. The mega-colony of Argentine ants extends across Europe, the US and Japan covering a combined distance of several thousand miles....
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Metaphysics and Psychology |
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 11-year-old is reincarnated pilot ?
Posted on Friday, 3 July, 2009| 5:10 | Comments: 20
In one of the most compelling cases of alleged reincarnation an 11-year-old boy has been documented as demonstrating intimate knowledge of his past life as a World War II pilot who was shot down over the Pacific....
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Natural World |
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 World's first ever 'self-watering' plant
Posted on Friday, 3 July, 2009| 4:57 | Comments: 6
A plant has been discovered in Israel's Negev desert that has the unique trait of being able to water itself. The Desert Rhubarb plant stores 16 times more water and has much larger leaves than other desert plants....
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Columnist: Mark Dohle |
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 Inner demons
Posted on Thursday, 2 July, 2009| 4:24 | Comments: 0
Mark Dohle: I just watched a movie titled, “The man who came back”. It was a movie, a western, which was supposedly based on a legend of a man who suffered a great injustice; witnessing the brutal killing of his son and whose body was flung into a well. Then he was also forced to watch, as his wife was gang raped, after which she was also killed and then she followed her son, being also thrown into the well. There was also a good deal of racial violence against the local population of freed slaves. There was the brutal hanging of o...
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Palaeontology |
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 Dinosaur mummy yields its secrets
Posted on Thursday, 2 July, 2009| 4:22 | Comments: 4
Scientists have analysed the amazingly well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur, the creature's soft tissues managed to avoid decay over millions of years due to fine sediments that formed a kind of cement after the animal fell in to a watery grave....
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Science and Technology |
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 Wheelchair 'steered by thought' unveiled
Posted on Thursday, 2 July, 2009| 4:19 | Comments: 2
Toyota have announced that they have invented a system for allowing a person to steer an electric wheelchair using nothing but their mind by wearing a device that can measure their brain waves....
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