China Says It May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations
China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of alien civilizations, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery. From a report: The narrow-band electromagnetic ( Read more... )

It's personally embarrassing that, after all that, I am back, stuck in Ye Olde City, listening to eclectic music coming out of Madison, from The Clash to Korean and Hmong to everything, wanting to move there.  Here's a nifty song for crazy mixes, which I found on my own a few years ago, and it was on WORT of few minutes ago! -

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I mentioned that Krakatoa erupted again.  This is what happened back in 1883.  If you think about it, that sound had effects - on whales in the ocean, on the weather, on psychology...  A subtle but massive Butterfly Effect.  At what point did the influence of that sound-wave end??  1884?  1984?  Is it still being felt, (so to speak)?  How deeply ( Read more... )

Latest: French and British economists warn that climate change poses an existential threat to the world economy.  That means, if the change gets bad, fast, the world is in for tyranny, war and mass death from epidemics, food shortages, and so forth.  Bill McKibben has been warning about this for 30 years, (and others even longer).  And yet, he said ( Read more... )

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Publication catches up to natural observation: Canada's accelerated warming is something that is congruent with facts of the warming in Alaska; forest fires in Canada's west; melting glaciers around Glacier National Park, USA; melting ice-skating trails in Ontario; the accepted mega-fact that the Arctic and northern areas are warming faster than ( Read more... )

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Climate change: Global impacts 'accelerating' - WMO

The World Meteorological Organization says that the physical and financial impacts of global warming are speeding up.