UFO Halts Ben-Gurion Airport Traffic

UFO Halts Ben-Gurion Airport Traffic | JewishPress: "With the military jumpy over the incursion of an enemy drone deep into Israeli airspace on Saturday, the IAF is taking no chances when they see something unusual on their radar screens, which are apparently now set at their highest sensitivity levels."

Do we live in the Matrix? researchers say they have found a way to prove if we do

Do we live in the Matrix? researchers say they have found a way to prove if we do | Mail Online: "If the Matrix left you with the niggling fear that we might indeed be living in a computer generated universe staged by a malevolent artificial intelligence using the human race as an energy farm, help is at hand.



A team of physicists have come up with a test which they say could prove whether or not the universe as we know it is a virtual reality simulation - a kind of theoretical red pill, as it were.

Silas Beane of the University of Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues contend that a simulation of the universe, no matter how complex, would still have constraints which would reveal it."

Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers reveal the diamond covered planet twice the size of Earth

Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers reveal the diamond covered planet twice the size of Earth | Mail Online: "A planet which really does twinkle like a diamond in the sky has been discovered by scientists - its surface is littered with the precious stones.



The planet - called 55 Cancri e - has a radius double the size of Earth’s, and weighs eight times more. Whilst Earth’s surface is covered in water and granite, the new planet is thought to be covered in diamonds and graphite."

Softball-sized eyeball washes up on Florida beach

Softball-sized eyeball washes up on Florida beach: "MIAMI –  It's not that body parts never wash ashore on Florida beaches. But usually it's not an eye the size of a softball."

Facebook More Tantalizing Than Sex

Facebook More Tantalizing Than Sex : Discovery News: "According to a new study, checking Facebook and Twitter may be more tempting than sex and cigarettes."

The Growth of Homeland Security’s Domestic Intelligence Enterprise

The Growth of Homeland Security’s Domestic Intelligence Enterprise | Public Intelligence: "The Department of Homeland Security’s production of domestic intelligence has increased substantially over the last few years according to a brochure of “intelligence products” published last month by Cryptome."

Food Inflation To Surge, Goldman Warns

Food Inflation To Surge, Goldman Warns | ZeroHedge: "We have been very active in our discussions of the impact of the pending rise in food prices around the world (from central bank largesse to weather-related chaos). As Goldman notes, food inflation has been one of the most significant sources of headline inflation variation in emerging markets (EM) over the past few years. Since June, international prices for agricultural commodities have risen almost 30%, increasing the risk of fresh, food-related increases to EM headline inflation. We, like Goldman, expect EM headline inflation to start to reflect the relevant pressures more broadly in the October prints at the latest. While the effects, for now, are expected to be less extreme than the 2010-2011 episode, the timing as the US enters its fiscal-cliff-prone malaise, could mean a further round of easing will reignite this critical inflationary concern."

The Kraken's Cousin: Searching for the Mysterious Jumbo Squid

The Kraken's Cousin: Searching for the Mysterious Jumbo Squid | Wired Science | Wired.com: "William Gilly has seen a Kraken. The mythical squid beast with ship-dooming tentacles surely exists, Gilly says, because he’s seen a baby one. “It was this big around,” he says, making a circle as big as a tire with his arms, a proud, boyish smile on his face. Fishermen spotted the carcass of the 8-foot-long, 400-pound baby giant squid in Monterey Bay three years ago, according to Gilly."

The truth is out there… UFO expert Nick Pope talks about aliens

The truth is out there… UFO expert Nick Pope talks about aliens | Nick Pope | Independent Editor's choice Blogs: "I’ve been involved with the subject of UFOs since 1991, but unlike most people with this interest, this didn’t result from my having a sighting and it wasn’t a hobby – it was my government job! I worked for the Ministry of Defence for 21 years, from 1985 to 2006. I had a varied and enjoyable career, but by far my most bizarre MoD job was one that I did from 1991 to 1994, when my responsibilities included researching and investigating UFOs."

Visitors from Elsewhen: Time Travelers Among Us

Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology: Visitors from Elsewhen: Time Travelers Among Us: "Time travel is a subject that has fascinated all manner of authors and given rise to a galaxy of speculation. Whether it’s the romantic, non-technical treatment of Somewhere in Time (1980), the high-tech action adventure of the Time Tunnel (1968) or contemporary projects like Looper (2012), the thought of going back to visit our collective historic past – or the subjective personal past – remains a gripping concept, and one that is surely to remain with us for generations to come. The ability to go back in time and change situations (the rise of fascism) or view historic events (the fall of Rome) has also fueled a number of plots that have become legendary in the realm of science fiction, which has explored the paradoxes of such endeavors."

Panetta Warns of Dire Threat of Cyberattack on U.S

Panetta Warns of Dire Threat of Cyberattack on U.S. - NYTimes.com: "Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned Thursday that the United States was facing the possibility of a “cyber-Pearl Harbor” and was increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation’s power grid, transportation system, financial networks and government."

The United Nations: On the Brink of Becoming a World Government

The United Nations: On the Brink of Becoming a World Government: "On October 14, 2009, Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, delivered a scathing refutation of the concept of human-caused global warming at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. During his presentation, Lord Monckton focused on the UN climate treaty that was being proposed for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that December. He warned:

I read that treaty. And what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries.... And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

Not just any government, mind you. “They are about to impose a communist world government on the world,” warned Monckton."

Big Brother invades our classrooms

Big Brother invades our classrooms - Salon.com: "Schools across the country are adopting frightening new methods to monitor their students in school and out"

Someday you will log in with your body: researchers

Someday you will log in with your body: researchers - New York Daily News: "Weak passwords and user logins may be obsolete after researchers at Carnegie Mellon University transform a person's stride into the 123ABC of the future."

Ancient DNA and Sumerians

Ancient DNA and Sumerians | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine: "A few months ago someone asked me (via email) which populations I would love to get typed (genetically that is). There is one population which did not come to mind at the time: the Sumerians."

Obama’s ring: ‘There is no god but Allah’

Obama’s ring: ‘There is no god but Allah’: "NEW YORK – As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack Obama’s practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his colleagues.

Now, newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couple’s wedding ceremony in 1992.

Moreover, according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.”"

Epigenetic horrors await as Monsanto acquires key gene silencing technology for use in humans

Epigenetic horrors await as Monsanto acquires key gene silencing technology for use in humans: "The nascent field of epigenetics is making scientists and pharmaceutical houses drool all over the world. Recent discoveries that DNA is much more than a blueprint for protein building have opened the door to a brand new ATGC playground."

Biometrics in the School Lunch Line

Biometrics in the School Lunch Line: | Anita Ramasastry | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia: "In September, throughout the United States, school started as usual.  But in some school systems, the lunch line had changed.  In a Maryland district, for example, instead of paying for lunch with bills and change, students now must scan their palms in order to pay for their French fries and chocolate milk."

The unique spiral structure spotted by the world's most expensive ground telescope (which has baffled scientists with its first picture)

The unique spiral structure spotted by the world's most expensive ground telescope (which has baffled scientists with its first picture) | Mail Online: "A unique spiral structure encircling a dying star has been captured by scientists for the first time.



The spectacular picture is one of the first to come from the world’s most expensive ground-based telescope which produces images ten times sharper than Hubble."

'Hiding' Supermassive Black Holes Discovered

'Hiding' Supermassive Black Holes Discovered : Discovery News: "Sometimes in astronomy you find something rather massive that's been hiding in plain sight. Well, or at least hiding from one type of telescope but plainly visible in another. In this case, several quasars have been discovered in an infrared survey that may represent an previously unseen phase of galaxy evolution."