Saturday, June 29, 2013

Philly rapper ordered to take etiquette classes  

The judge also told him to stop using the salad fork for steak.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:03 PM

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Was Michael Hastings' Car Hacked? Richard Clarke Says It's Possible 

According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could've allowed someone to hack his car. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack."

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:13 AM

Monday, June 24, 2013

Myanmar mystics give supernatural help to Asia elite  

Tiny, frail and barely able to speak, Myanmar's most famous fortune teller -- known as ET -- has for years whispered predictions to Asia's rich and powerful, from generals to foreign politicians.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:23 AM

Monday's Flying Saucers 

UFO over Stonehenge? Britain releases its last big batch of X-Files (With pic of UFO over Stonehenge)

Kansas astronomer became expert in UFOs

The sad demise of the Men in Dark Tweed

UFO files: Airmen report 'blob' exploding near RAF base

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:48 AM

Sunday, June 23, 2013

The 'Time Capsule' Of Mob Lingo At The Whitey Bulger Trial  

The Sopranos gave us a primer on mob language like "clipping" a "rat." But Bulger's Winter Hill Gang and his Boston Irish cohort were the real deal.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:11 PM

Sheep-Eating Plant Blooms For First Time 

An exotic "sheep-eating" plant, so-called because it kills and "eats" sheep, has bloomed for the first time at the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden Wisley in the U.K.

posted by Prof. Hex at 4:43 PM

Man believes he found fossilized Bigfoot head  

With video.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:52 PM

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Email from Michael Hastings before crash mentions FBI probe  

The crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings was ruled an accident by police, but conspiracy theories continued to circulate.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:14 AM

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

New York men accused of plot to build radiation weapon  

A radiation weapon they also allegedly tried to sell to Jewish groups or the KKK.

According to this site, and assuming it's the same Eric J. Feight, one suspect is Vice President of a company called Genius Industrial Solutions. Eric offers:

Let me show you creative and effective solutions to the "impossible" problems no one else wants to tackle.

Yeah, I bet. The other suspect, Glendon Scott Crawford, claimed to belong to the Ku Klux Klan and worked as a industrial engineer for General Electric.

"Why don't you come with us? Try terrorism-for-hire. We'll blow some shit up. It's more fun!" - Castor Troy.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:22 PM

Lunch Conversations With Orson Welles  

Fascinating excerpts from a new book of interviews with Orson Welles by director Henry Jaglom. In it, Welles contends that Carole Lombard's plane was actually shot down by Nazi agents working in America. He also claims Citizen Kane is a comedy.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:56 PM

Documentary Alleges TWA Flight 800 Cover-Up  

In a new documentary, former investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230, are breaking their silence to claim that the explosion that brought down the plane in 1996 was likely no accident, and that the final report on the cause of the blast was falsified.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:52 PM

Jimmy Hoffa search finds no sign of ex-Teamsters leader in Detroit suburb 

The excavation of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:51 PM

Strong evidence of Bigfoot found  

Bigfoot enthusiasts claim they heard howls and had rocks thrown at them in Delaware County, Oklahoma.

See also:

Professor: Evidence points to Bigfoot’s existence

Three experts disagree on bonding with a sasquatch

In Pa., methods for finding Bigfoot

Village in M'sia in panic over bigfoot print

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:51 AM

Occult Illuminator: PW Talks With Paul Kleber Monod 

In Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, Middlebury College history professor Monod challenges contemporary assumptions that the Enlightenment successfully quashed belief in disciplines—like astrology, witchcraft, and alchemy—that were not founded in reason.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:10 AM

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The XploreAir Paravelo - the first flying bike - shows off its stuff 

Looks like fun but the video doesn't show the landing. That's the most important part.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:59 PM

Search for Hoffa Mystery Endures for Decades  

The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain's tip to once again this week break out the digging equipment to search for the remains in an Oakland Township field, about 25 miles north of Detroit.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:07 PM

Mystery Substance Prompts Closure Of Indiana Beach  

The substance was "tri-calcium orthophosphate" which is apparently the same thing as Tricalcium phosphate.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:05 PM

Turkey's 'standing man' shows how passive resistance can shake a state  

What do you do when your government tries to move you? Erdem Gunduz just stands still. Now imagine a million of him.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:09 PM

The Crazy New Subatomic Particle That May Rewrite the Rules of Matter 

While it's far from certain, that suggests that there exists a new kind of particle—currently known as Z(3900)—which is made of four quarks.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:25 PM

Monday, June 17, 2013

What if Pixar remade Flash Gordon and other pulp classics? 

It would look pretty neat, actually.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:53 PM

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Archaeologists use revolutionary laser technology to find lost medieval city in Cambodia  

A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said.

posted by Prof. Hex at 4:34 PM

Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture 

After 2,000 years, a long-lost secret behind the creation of one of the world’s most durable man-made creations ever—Roman concrete—has finally been discovered by an international team of scientists, and it may have a significant impact on how we build cities of the future.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:51 PM

Friday, June 14, 2013

The Wheel Has Been Reinvented As A Cube  

Fascinating stuff.

Though based on a square, Shark Wheels feel perfectly circular when riding. The secret is the wheel’s sine wave-like pattern that looks like three snakes spooning each other.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:56 AM

'Flea market' Renoir leads to colorful mystery  

Since the announcement last September that the painting — “Paysage Bords de Seine,” or “On the Shore of the Seine” — bought in a $7 box of knickknacks was being put up for auction in Alexandria, Va., an intriguing mystery has unfolded with an assortment of characters.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:24 AM

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Season of Terror by Charles F. Price 

This new book from the University Press of Colorado looks absolutely fascinating. I had never heard of this story before but I'm excited to read about it.

Season of Terror: The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March-October 1863

For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers Felipe Nerio and José Vivián Espinosa and their young nephew, José Vincente, New Mexico-born Hispanos, killed and mutilated an estimated thirty-two victims before their rampage came to a bloody end. Their motives were obscure, although they were members of the Penitentes, a lay Catholic brotherhood devoted to self-torture in emulation of the sufferings of Christ, and some suppose they believed themselves inspired by the Virgin Mary to commit their slaughters.

Until now, the story of their rampage has been recounted as lurid melodrama or ignored by academic historians. Featuring a fascinating array of frontier characters, Season of Terror exposes this neglected truth about Colorado's past and examines the ethnic, religious, political, military, and moral complexity of the controversy that began as a regional incident but eventually demanded the attention of President Lincoln.

Cool stuff, right? Thanks to Jess for the tip.

Season of Terror: The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March-October 1863 (Timberline Books)

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:45 AM

Monday, June 10, 2013

Pennsylvania college discovers long lost document signed by President Lincoln  

The document dated back to 1863, and was drafted to name John Brinsfield, the founder of Pennsylvania’s Lycoming College, a Civil War chaplain. It was reportedly kept in fair condition by a frame hidden behind a piece of wall paneling.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:21 PM

Glowing Plants: Awesome Kickstarter or Creepy Biotech?  

Hoping to give new meaning to the term "natural light," a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started a project to develop plants that glow, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace electric street lamps and potted flowers luminous enough to read by.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:02 PM

London's Mysterious Cheapside Treasure to Go on Show 

The Cheapside Hoard on show at the Museum of London from October 11 features priceless gems from as far away as India, Latin America and the Middle East that were buried in the 17th century and discovered in 1912 under an old building in central London.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:54 PM

Mystery fish baffles fishermen  

Fishermen in the Kayankeni area of Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka have caught a fish with a square body and no tail.

With pic.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:33 PM

The Mystery of the Primes 

Yesterday, I had the fortunate opportunity to spend some time with one of the most unusual mathematicians I have ever met--a middle-aged man born in China who, quietly, without talking much or making statements at international conferences, just solved one of the most important long-standing enigmas in mathematics: uncovering a key property of prime numbers.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:04 PM

Unfrozen mystery: Water reveals a new secret 

Using revolutionary new techniques, a team led by Carnegie's Malcolm Guthrie has made a striking discovery about how ice behaves under pressure, changing ideas that date back almost 50 years.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:00 PM

Indirect Coupling - Solving A 350-year-old Pendulum Mystery May Help With Epilepsy Too 

The "indirect coupling" effect mystery dates back to 1665, when Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, first observed that two pendulum clocks mounted together could swing in opposite directions.

It takes a kinky clock to swing both ways.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:55 PM

Mysterious Meteor Shower Might Peak Early Tomorrow  

The uncertainty surrounding tomorrow's meteor shower is part of a mystery that goes back more than 80 years.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:53 PM

Mystery surrounds Boone motel deaths  

An 11-year-old Rock Hill boy died in a Boone motel over the weekend, just two months after a couple died mysteriously in the same room.

Creepy.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:51 PM

Colorado secede? Counties weigh exit plan to form state of 'North Colorado'  

Good luck with all that.

posted by Prof. Hex at 4:35 PM

How to Block NSA Spying  

Thought I would pass this along given current events.

posted by Prof. Hex at 4:16 PM

'Vampire' mum-of-two: 'I drink almost two litres of blood a month from human donors'  

On the rocks? Neat? Inquiring minds want to know!

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:51 PM

Sunday, June 09, 2013

Monstrous Monkeys and Weird Waters  

According to Scottish legend, the Kelpie – or the water-horse – is a wholly supernatural creature that haunts the rivers, bridges and lochs of ancient Scotland and that has the uncanny ability to shape-shift.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:17 PM