This is a map of the city states of ancient Mesopotamia during the Sumerian civilization.(wikipedia)

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Super-powered Eye

WASHINGTON: Making a startling discovery, a scientist has claimed in his new book that the evolution of vision has provided humans with four real superpowers: telepathy, X-ray vision, seeing the future, and speaking with the dead.

And, as it turns out, these superpowers have been instrumental in shaping the way people interact with one another and see the world.
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One Big Cemetery

So after all the theories and studies it’s really no secret, just a big cemetery.

Huge, intriguing stones mark burial site, archaeologists conclude, for family that ruled region many generations.

Washington —- The secret of Stonehenge has been solved: The mysterious circle of large stones in southern England was a burial ground for almost five centuries, and it probably holds the remains of a family that long ruled the area, new research concludes.
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Man-made Black Hole (credit: Fresh News)

Man-made black holes, sounds a bit dicey to me.

A team of physicists have created an artificial black hole in their lab that traps sound instead of light, in an attempt to detect the theoretical Hawking radiation.

The radiation, proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking more than 30 years ago, causes black holes to evaporate over time.
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Bronze Age burial mounds (Credit: Damian Grady/ English Heritage)

It will be interesting if anything is discovered in these new tombs which are reportedly 1000 years older than Stonehenge. The tombs have yet to be excavated but experts are claiming that they likely contain chambers with human remains from the Bronze Age (roughly 2000 to 700 B.C. in Britain).

Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise.
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Strange Creature? (credit: Joe Fex)

I recently received these photos from Joe Fex one of the top Bigfoot researchers in the world [http://apexresearch.ufothinktank.com/]. I sent them to Brad Steiger to have a look at. Since he is currently working on his new book on monsters, I thought he would especially be interested in seeing these arresting pictures. After reading Joe’s comments on them, you can read below how they were assessed by Brad Steiger’s photo-analysis expert.
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Dark matter ring. (Credit: Image courtesy of Andalucía Innova)

Here’s an article on the ever elusive dark matter. Science seems to be making some sort of headway on this stuff.

ScienceDaily (June 9, 2009) — Dark matter is an enigmatic energy that makes up most of the mass in the Universe, whose nature has not yet been identified. Researchers have succeeded in estimating the percentage of dark matter in the Universe and describing the processes related to the very existence of this matter. But, until now, no one has established the distribution and behavior of the dark matter in a galaxy.

Now, astronomers in the Theoretical Physics and Cosmos Department of the University of Granada, led by Eduardo Battaner, in collaboration with researchers in the Applied Mathematics Department, have made great progress: establishing the distribution and behaviour of the dark matter in a galaxy.
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Some of the physicists who made early contributions to quantum mechanics (left to right, top row first): Neils Bohr, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg [Credit: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild183-R57262

In a recent paper published in the European Journal of Physics, Marin has written a short history, based on a longer analysis, of the mysticism controversy in the early quantum physics community. As Marin emphasizes, the controversy began in Germany in the 1920s among physicists in reaction to the new theory of quantum mechanics, but was much different than debates on similar issues today. At the turn of the last century, science and religion were not divided as they are today, and some scientists of the time were particularly inspired by Eastern mysticism.
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SETI's Seth Shostak

When will we find evidence of life outside our solar system? 

That was one of the many questions posed by Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, during a presentation Saturday evening at Western Nevada College.
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DARPA origami

I wonder where DARPA got the idea for this stuff. HMMM…I seem to remember hearing of something out of New Mexico called, wait, what was it, oh yes, memory metal.

Even by the standards of the Pentagon fringe science arm, this project sounds far-out: that can be ordered to “self-assemble or alter their shape, perform a function and then disassemble themselves.” But researchers back by Darpa are actually making progress on this incredible goal, Henry Kenyon at Signal magazine reports.
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