Why did ancient peoples, without modern construction equipment, struggle so hard to build huge monuments? These monumental structures are found all over the world, from Easter Island to the pyramids of Egypt. Recent research suggests that they all have a common characteristic: they may have been specially designed to conduct and manipulate sound to produce certain sensory effects.read more
UFO investigator Nick Pope says that the best photo of a UFO ever taken was snapped in Scotland, but government officials confiscated it and shredded it. It showed a diamond-shaped metallic craft about 10 feet in diameter and there seemed to be military jets in the background.
The Daily Record quotes Pope as saying, "This was easily the most compelling UFO photo I’ve ever seen in my life. It went to the technical specialists at the Defense Intelligence Staff and elsewhere. Their results of the analysis were that this was a real thing–it wasn’t a faked photo.
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First it’s marijuana medicine, now it’s psychedelic mushrooms boosting the brain. The active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms (which are illegal in most places) decreases brain activity, meaning that information flows more freely in a brain on mushrooms.
Researcher Robin Carhart-Harris says, "There is increasing evidence that the regions affected are responsible for giving us our sense of self. In other words, the regions affected make up what some people call our ‘ego.’ That activity decreases in the ‘ego-network’ supports what people often say about psychedelics, that they temporarily ‘dissolve the ego.’"
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Mixed marriages are becoming more accepted and polls show that most people support gay marriage as well. Is it time to come out of the closet? Although still sharply divided, public attitudes toward gays and lesbians are rapidly changing to reflect greater acceptance, with younger generations leading the way.
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