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Showing posts with label New Scientist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Scientist. Show all posts

Jan 15, 2011

Did climate change help collapse the Roman Empire?

Having mixed feelings about the report that climate change may have had a part in the Fall of the Roman Empire, I'm posting this link to see if any of my astute readers have an opinion on the matter.

Given today's environmental concerns and debates, one must hold back from typing "history repeats"...oops! It broke through anyway.

And if like me you're interested in Science's cloning of a woolly mammoth project and its possible repercussions upon society, you may wish to check out my freshly updated Woolly Mammoth Chronicles of Science News, links, videos, and poems of frets and misgivings.

How amusing that the Ice Age may be returning bwo of Climate Change - just in time for a mammoth to stomp the Earth again, no?

Jun 15, 2009

New! an Invisibility Cloak for spies?

New Scientist has an article on a scientific breakthrough which may aid spies who hide microphones...a light twisting 'invisibility cloak' or 'magic carpet' which naturally causes this reluctant astrologer to think of Pluto-the-Spy's Helmet of Invisibility.

And it causes me to think of America's natal Mercury at '25 Cancer' and its Sabian Symbol: "A Man Wrapped in an Invisible Mantle of Power"...and also of the Symbol for the Sun's degree of Exaltation...'19Ari'..."The Magic Carpet."

Well, that's what I'm thinking about right now. How about you?

May 2, 2009

New Scientist photo of Mercury's mysterious Rembrandt crator

Woo hoo! Not sure how I've missed the New Scientist website before but it has such a plethora of interesting articles you'll want to discover them for yourself.

From H1N1 (Swine) Flu's genetic analysis to a near-Earth asteroid 2009HC82 recently found orbiting our Sun in retrograde orbit (rare, and should have already been seen) to an article about NASA's possibly abandoning its plans for a Moon base, this site really rocks!

And if you're in a jurassic mood, you may wish to check out "First dino 'blood' extracted from ancient bone" while you're visiting.

Oh, and my personal favorite, "Mysterious spokes found in crator on Mercury" in a fly-by photo from Oct 2008 courtesy of NASA's Messenger spacecraft - click to view an Astrology chart-with-details of Jan 14, 2008, the day of Messenger's launch.

The strange spokes and troughs are seen in a photo (included) of Mercury's Rembrandt crator so fly-by the New Scientist when you can!