Study Shows Smart People are More Prone to Anxiety
I knew it all along! via PsyBlog: The reason high intelligence and anxiety are correlated: Intelligence and anxiety may have evolved together as mutually beneficial traits, research finds. This may help to explain why people with high intelligence also tend to have higher levels of anxiety. The benefit may be that intelligence allows people to better imagine what might go … Continue reading
Psychologists View on How Humanity Will React to Evidence of Alien Life
Germs stuck to the outside of the International Space Station are not from around here, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said in an interview last week with Russian state-owned news service Tass. Microbes “have come from outer space and settled along the external surface,” Shkaplerov said. “They are being studied so far, and it seems that they pose no danger.” Russia’s space agency, … Continue reading
The Sun is Blank And Continues to Dim
As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days (27%) of the days observing the sun have been without sunspots. Here is the view today from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite: Today at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a new sensor … Continue reading
Mysterious Light Trails Filmed above Sheffield, UK
An engineer has captured a video of seemingly strange lights above Sheffield. In the footage the strange comet-like trails of light can be seen shooting around high above Sheffield United’s football stadium – changing directions very quickly in the early morning sky. The video was captured by Peter Savage, 35, an electrical engineer at a security firm, on Friday December … Continue reading
Madison Wisconsin’s Night Sky Lit up by Meteor Fireball
Cameras outside a University of Wisconsin-Madison facility captured the moment a meteoroid streaked across the night sky. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies shared footage from a webcam mounted atop the building that captured the fireball’s fall from the sky Monday night. Meteor over #Madison last night! Watch it zoom in near the #Capitol just before … Continue reading
Organs Found at Detroit Water Treatment Plant Could be Human
Police were called twice to a water treatment plant in Detroit after staffers found possibly human organs in an area that filters debris from the waste water. The organs will now undergo weeks of testing. The first call to police came Friday when staffers found a possible organ at the Great Lakes Water Authority’s Water Resource Recovery Facility, according to … Continue reading
Previously Seen ‘Giant Interstellar Alien Craft’ Near Orion Nebula Shows Up Again
On November 29, 2017 a sky-watcher from North Carolina was out collecting data on M42 Orion Nebula with his 8 in astrograph / Newtonian Telescope when a giant cylinder shaped UFO appeared on his laptop screen which he captured in a single 30.2 second frame. Now, On December 11, 2017 it was another night of capturing data on M42 Orion … Continue reading
Flat-Earthers, Are They Being Serious?
Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat. Walking around on the planet’s surface, it looks and feels flat, so they deem all evidence to the contrary, such as satellite photos of Earth as a sphere, to be fabrications of a “round Earth conspiracy” orchestrated by NASA and other government agencies. The belief that the … Continue reading
DARPA Believes Bioengineered Spy Plants Are “The Future Of Intelligence Gathering”
If any organization embodies our idea of the classic mad inventors, just running amock with crazy ideas, it’s DARPA. A jumping dog robot? Sure. Self-guiding bullets? What can go wrong? Vertical take-off plane? Well, why not? Bioengineered spy plants? Wait, what? Yes, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – DARPA – the part of the US Department of Defense responsible … Continue reading
US Health Officials Warns of Cancer & Infertility Risk Associated With Cell Phone Use
The California Department of Public Health has issued guidelines on cell phone exposure, warning residents to keep their cell phone away from their body to reduce potential cancer and infertility risks. The release follows a legal battle initiated by UC Berkeley researcher Joel Moskowitz last year after he discovered draft documents on the issue had existed since 2010 without being … Continue reading
