U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are a piece of American folklore of unknown origin. The list of coincidences appeared in the mainstream American press in 1964, a year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, having appeared prior to that in the G.O.P. Congressional Committee Newsletter. Martin Gardner examined the list in an article in Scientific … [Read more...]
Cognitive Illusions
Cognitive illusions arise from interaction of perceived reality with assumptions about the world (prior knowledge), leading to "unconscious inferences". Cognitive illusions rely on stored knowledge about the world (depth, rabbits, women) and are also under some degree of conscious control (we can generally reverse the perception at will). The way you look at an object can … [Read more...]
Physiological Illusions
Physiological illusions, such as the afterimages following bright lights or adapting stimuli of excessively longer alternating patterns (contingent perceptual aftereffect, CAE), are the effects on the eyes or brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type - brightness, tilt, colour, movement, and so on. The theory is that stimuli have individual dedicated neural paths in the … [Read more...]
Visual Illusions and Brain Teasers
An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present. -- Wikipedia Discover the world of optical illusions where your eyes and your brain can fool you. Here you will find some of the best illusions and brain teasers around (and related … [Read more...]
How many people have ever lived on earth?
Estimates of "the total number of people who have ever lived" published in the first decade of the 21st century range approximately from 100 to 115 billion. According to estimates by demographic researchers at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), as of 2015, there have been 108.2 billion who have ever been born. Taking away the roughly 7.4 billion who are alive today, we … [Read more...]
12 and Prime Numbers
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because 1 and 5 are its only positive integer factors, whereas 6 is composite because it has the divisors 2 and 3 in addition to 1 and 6. The … [Read more...]
Pyramids – Ancient Batteries?
by Robert Bruce Baird In the Madre de Dios region of Brazil near Peru there are twelve battery laid out pyramids with berms of earth piled around to reflect energy (perhaps). I think Berlitz covered them or David Hatcher Childress - who ever it was said the foreign investigations were stopped and it isn't a case of being unreachable as many links will say as they talk … [Read more...]
SCOTLAND’S CATASTROPHIC COMET CONSPIRACY
by Ashley Cowie In 1945 a hyper-excentric catastrophist published the most bizarre conspiracy theory of all time. Plato's legendary Atlantis thrived in Scotland before being destroyed by a comet impact, and in ancient times the capital city Edinburgh was the real Jerusalem. Movies such as Armageddon and Deep Impact have engrained the concept of Earth being obliterated … [Read more...]
The Thought Police
Anthony Bright-Paul In order to understand the workings of the thought-police there is no better place to start than with the Trial of Galileo. Read this introduction to article The Trial of Galileo by Doug Linder (2002) In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of … [Read more...]
Empirical Evidence of Man-made Global Warming?
by Anthony Bright-Paul There is no empirical evidence of man-made Global Warming whatsoever. There never has been and there never will be. Oh yes! There is a theory and plenty of scientists have an ‘opinion’ on the matter. But opinion is not science. A great number of apparatchiks also ‘believe’ that that the Globe is getting hotter and hotter and indeed only today I read in … [Read more...]
THE DOG DELUSION
by Ashley Cowie ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LOVED A DOG KNOWS THE WARMTH OF THEIR COMPANIONSHIP, BUT DID YOU KNOW AN ACT OF SHEER VANITY IN THE 19TH CENTURY BROUGHT 40 MILLION YEARS OF THE GENETIC EVOLUTION OF DOGS TO AN END? DOGS IN PRE-HISTORY The early ancestors of Gray Wolves were a group of carnivores named thecreodonts, that roamed the northern hemisphere between … [Read more...]
SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE DOOMSDAY TEMPLE
by Ashley Cowie REVEALED, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, THE GRAND ARCHITECT OF MODERN MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND OPTICS PRACTICED ANCIENT PSYCHOMAGIC TO DRIVE A DEEPLY MYSTICAL HIDDEN APOCALYPTIC AGENDA. Albeit that last sentence is highly counter intuitive, every word is accurate. Two centuries after Newton's death thousands of unpublished papers revealed this master of the … [Read more...]
Stopping the Weather
by Anthony Bright-Paul Image courtesy AP I see that John Kerry, the present Secretary of State for the United States of America, has roundly declared at the Climate Conference in Marrakech, that over 50% of Americans believe that it is an urgent requirement to fight ‘climatechange’. (BBC News/Science) Thereby hangs a tale. Kerry: US majority back climate action Image … [Read more...]
Destruction of Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons in Early 1900’s ?
Smithsonian Admits to Destruction of Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons in Early 1900's A US Supreme Court ruling has forced the Smithsonian institution to release classified papers dating from the early 1900's that proves the organization was involved in a major historical cover up of evidence showing giants human remains in the tens of thousands had been uncovered all across … [Read more...]
ARTEFACT DATED AS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD
A MYSTIFYING ANCIENT PRE-COLOMBIAN ARTEFACT DISPLAYING UNIDENTIFIABLE LIFEFORMS IS NEITHER A HOAX OR A MISINTERPRETATION. IT'S A CLASSIC OOPART (OUT-OF-PLACE ARTEFACT) DATED TO HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD AND IT DEFIES HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT. OR DOES IT? by Ashley Cowie BACKSTORY In South America gold has been a vastly important commodity for prehistoric and … [Read more...]
Scientists Claim 130 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSIL IS HUMAN
by Ashley Cowie A TELEVISION INTERVIEW WITH AN ARTEFACT COLLECTOR LED ME TO UNCOVER A SCIENTIFIC CONSPIRACY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS. Professors are the high priests of our technology driven society, but as you will see, sometimes the letters behind their names serve to disguise corrupt and highly unscientific hidden agendas. BACKSTORY Last week I led a documentary crew … [Read more...]
Does Hollywood Know My 13-Point Grid?
Remember the 1996 movie: “The Arrival” with Charlie Sheen? [Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it]. A 2016 version of the film will soon be released… “When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks - are … [Read more...]
Approximations of Pi
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is "irrational number" and its decimal expansion therefore does not terminate or repeat. The first 10 decimal places are: 3.14159 26535 ... Fractional approximations to Pi There are few fractional approximations to Pi (that give very close approximation of the “pi”). In order of increasing … [Read more...]
Earth’s Oxygen Depletion Crisis and the Oxy Gene
by Dan Green One day after the horrific killing of a priest in France on July 27th 2016, Pope Francis stated that, ‘The world is at war’, referring not to a war of religions but a war of ‘interests, a war for money, resources and domination of peoples.’ What I intend to pluck and highlight from his selected areas of concern is the emphasis on resources, which, of course has … [Read more...]
THE LOGOS
by R.B. Baird Introduction The TV channel Nature produced a show on the origins of music and the biological and archetypal impact it has had on our evolution and emotional wherewithal. Along with reed instruments from as long ago as 60,000 years that obviously show sophisticated development of technology, they had the cave operas of those who rubbed and drummed on … [Read more...]