A thread for everything to do with the deep ocean. Reflections on the fact that the vast majority of our world is as alien to us as the voids between the planets (and ...
When the topic of the scientific method (more properly, scientific methods, as there are more than one) as it relates to culture comes up, I've noticed that there are usually two main ...
I will have shortly a few copies of my friend Peter's excellent little pamphlet on eyes, orgone & armouring. Who would like one? I am trying to sell them for £2.50 a ...
Here, Mithras is moving back to his original home on the banks of the Walbrook. Not sure what this means for metaphysical London, but it certainly seems like some sort of omen. ...
For parking interesting science related off site links. Minor discussions of the links to decide if a spin off thread is justified only, please.Popular Science Monthly/Volume 19/August 1881/The Visions of Sane Persons"THE ...
...Surely "Stone Age wo/man" or "person"?
"Modern men should take a lead from their more enlightened and compassionate Stone Age ancestors, according to a University of Manchester archaeologist.
Dr Karina Croucher, who has ...
If correct, then Colin Renfrew was right, and a proto Indo-European language originated in Anatolia, rather than from the Russian steppes (the Kurgan theory) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988
"The New Zealand researchers used methods developed to study ...
My sweetie and I went out to look at stars last night, and we saw Eta Persei for the first time, and I saw Castor(I, II, and III) through a telescope for ...
This is a thread for the parasitic, for all those things that feed on their living hosts. So I was in that weird part of the Internet again and I accidentally ...
This is a thread to talk about the various vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements we are or were taking: why, what for, what works and what doesn't. Strictly speaking, if you are ...
Look, it's the Goodyear blimp! This is thread for Zeppelins, dirigibles, and sundry lighter-than-air craft. Old and new. Ideas and theories; practicalities and applications.I'm fascinated by airships as a mode of transport ...
I'd like to use this thread to collect other unexpected discoveries about complex relationships - systems that you wouldn't think were linked, but turn out to be connected. Perhaps focusing here on ...
"The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the west Highlands, archaeologists have said.
The site, at Ardnamurchan, is thought to be more than 1,000 years old. ...
Science is a process of asking questions and eliminating wrong answers; I'm often surprised by the way it doesn't come across like that. I thought it might be useful to talk about ...
Stonehenge acoustics "This how simple hand-clapping would have sounded in the centre of Stonehenge 4,000 years ago"
2:32 onwards:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14746589
Sound of a 'ritual' 3:47
So the invisibility cloaks we were promised have remained stubbornly 'just over the horizon' ever since we first heard about them. Yes, we've seen unconvincing greenish images projected onto a rain mac mounted ...
Robin Hood's been popping up lately for me, on and off the board. And this morning, I just found this fascinating piece on Sherwood Forest's history as a Viking meeting place.
PastHorizons.com: ...
Apparently, after extensive testing, it's become clear that mobile phones are responsible for the decimation of bee populations.Only, that appears to be a link to the Daily Mail website at the bottom ...
"The Bates method is an alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates, M.D., (18601931) attributed nearly all sight problems to habitual strain of the eyes." says Wikipedia.
This is ...