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Miscellaneous What-Have-You => That's interesting, man. That's fucking interesting => Topic started by: cakebelly on February 15, 2011, 12:38:50 PM

Title: Daily Grail (links for the day)
Post by: cakebelly on February 15, 2011, 12:38:50 PM
View these stories via this link: http://www.dailygrail.com/ (http://www.dailygrail.com/)

Easy come, easy gonorrhea.

   * Largest planet in the solar system could be about to be discovered and it's up to four times the size of Jupiter.
   * The strange powers of the Placebo Effect.
   * Electrified sand. Exploding balloons. The long and colorful history of weather manipulation.
   * The dark origins of Valentine's Day.
   * Will the Earth's wandering magnetic poles cause deadly superstorms?
   * Human DNA discovered in gonorrhea.
   * Clay-armoured bubbles may have formed the first protocells.
   * Yoga: not as old as you might think.
   * The new Gold Rush? Miners head back to California to dig for its forgotten riches.
   * Ancient canals on the Suncoast?
   * Boy without a Cerebellum baffles Doctors.
   * Scientists discover giant holes in the Sun.
   * New study suggests earliest humans were not very different from us.
   * VISTA highlights the distinction between looking and seeing.

Quote of the Day:

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F.Skinner
Title: Re: Daily Grail (links for the day)
Post by: Rev. Gary (revgms) on February 15, 2011, 12:48:00 PM
Awesome find, been looking for a new site to add to my daily enlightenings. Big HuffPost fan, but need more info man, always looking for new shit that has come to light.

Thanx CB
Title: Re: Daily Grail (links for the day)
Post by: cckeiser on February 15, 2011, 01:06:12 PM
Along the same lines: Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival:

Warning! Once you start it may be very hard to stop!

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html
Title: Re: Daily Grail (links for the day)
Post by: cakebelly on February 15, 2011, 01:12:32 PM
@Revgms - hope you find something there to help keep you limber.

Along the same lines as CC's link:  http://www.realitysandwich.com/ (http://www.realitysandwich.com/)
Title: Re: Daily Grail (links for the day)
Post by: cakebelly on February 18, 2011, 02:05:18 PM
Dudeism gets a link-check from The Daily Grail: http://www.dailygrail.com/ (http://www.dailygrail.com/)

(news feed 2/18/2011 - via above link)

Anything is possible.

    * 'Bownessie' photographed on Windermere.
    * Biologists and dolphins create an inter-species language.
    * Wurdi Youang rocks could prove Aborigines were first astronomers.
    * Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry to take on a PKD classic.
    * Chernobyl today: a creepy story told in pictures.
    * Tour the Indonesian ruins that inspired Lovecraft's R'lyeh.
    * We should be as intolerant of pseudoscience as we are of homophobia and racism.
    * The Parapsychological Association has a fancy new website.
    * Mankind has stopped evolving. Watching the news at night you could make the case it's actually in reverse now.
    * Serious doubt thrown on the FBI's case against the 2001 Anthrax attacker.
    * Cheery thought for the day: the cosmos could kill off life on Earth at any time.
    * Nick Redfern delves into the Archives of the Weird Kind.
    * The strange powers of the placebo effect.
    * Concerned about ET picking up our first TV and radio signals? Don't be.
    * Get all the facts! The story of Middle Earth - as told by the minions of Mordor.
    * 5 absurd ways comic books have resurrected dead superheroes.
    * The slowest-growing religion in the world ? Dudeism.
    * The tinfoil hat conspiracy?
    * Nest houses made of living trees.

Thanks to Greg and RPJ

Quote of the Day:

Does the sun walk in glorious raiment on the secret floor

Where the cold miser spreads his gold?

William Blake
Title: Re: Daily Grail (links for the day)
Post by: Rev. Gary (revgms) on February 19, 2011, 11:46:31 AM
That is cool.