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Another report of strange sounds comes from Manchester in the UK. These have been coming in since 2011, but, as always, the media has no awareness of their history. We do, however. The video attached, for example, comes from 2012. The poster theorizes that the sounds are from some sort of industrial process, and that’s possible. But they remain of unknown origin. So far, there has been no video or audio posted of the sounds that were heard on September 16, that are referred to in the linked story from the Manchester Guardian.

A question about these sounds: as they appear to have been heard only rarely prior to 2010, and now are heard repeatedly, what has changed?
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A team of physicists have put forward an ambitious new plan to put the principle of quantum superposition, where an object can exist in two places at once, to work on a subject that has not been attempted before: they plan on doing this with a living microorganism.

Researchers have been steadily increasing the scale of the subject that they subject to a state of quantum superposition, where the particles affected are in more than one place at the same time, starting with smaller elementary particles such as photons, up through recent experiments where macroscopic, inanimate objects have been subjected to this state.

But what about living organisms?
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A new study has found that Alzheimer’s Disease may be transmissible. It has previously been thought to be a non-contagious disease.

The study, conducted by a team from University College London, performed autopsies on eight cadavers that were known to be victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), that was contracted by them after having received human growth hormone therapy that was unknowingly contaminated with CJD prions. The team found that six of the subjects’ brains showed amyloid-beta pathology — amyloid-beta being a protein that is associated with Alzheimer’s, with four of the cases showing a buildup of amyloid deposits in the blood vessels of their brains.
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A powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Chile at 3:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time. The quake was at a depth of 15.5 miles and was 145 Miles NNW of Santiago. The quake struck in the Nazca Plate Region, which is one of the most active earthquake zones on the Pacific Rim and in the world. The quake took place on the South American arc, which marks the boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate and stretches approximately 6,000 miles along the South American Coast. The relatively shallow depth of the quake and the slow upward gradient of the ocean floor toward land in the region has caused the tsunami warning, but no serious wave action ensued.

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