Another UFO mystery debunked.

The mystery of bright orbis moving through the night sky have been noted by and baffled mankind for centuries.  UFO's according  to many, these events are frequently observed before earthquakes.  A chance observation by physicists have debunked the urban legend. Researchers noticed that by shifting a simple box of common flour they could produce an electric charge by friction. Voila..... shifting dirt, sand and similar substances in the earth preliminary to earthquakes produce electricity discharging into the air.  Such shifting can occur without a followup earthquake producing similar phenomena.

chocolate horses

jpr: Lent begins! Today is Ash Wednesday. I'm giving up chocolate in form of horses.

That explains a lot

We will now open bidding on Item 2033, Van Gogh's personal lavatory mirror, which he is said to have used in capturing his likeness for his many self-portraits.

Over 100 published science journal articles just gibberish

Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them.  The fake papers are in the fields of computer science and math and have titles such as “Application and Research of Smalltalk Harnessing Based on Game-Theoretic Symmetries”; “An Evaluation of E-Business with Fin”; and “Simulating Flip-Flop Gates Using Peer-to-Peer Methodologies."  The publishers not explain how they got by the ‘peer review’ process, admitting that the papers “are all nonsense.” Many of them I had to read in graduate school.

march flower

"The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings."
-  Joyce Kilmer, Spring

"Another successful banker mysteriously turns up dead

bringing the total of recent suspicious deaths in the financial industry to 9"

Across the world, little explanations given, all within the past few weeks!!

check it out - What's causing Bank CEOs deaths?

(just in case your anxiety level needs a good scare)

The magical wells of the celts

St Mary's well Dorset England

The Celts believed water had magical properties. One  reason  might have to do with how the water got here. Though there are many myths about the beginning of civilization, one theory is that the world was covered in water, flooded so to speak, and when the waters receded, the most holy of it was left behind, perhaps seen as a passage between the earth and the Otherworld.  The most holy and the largest of the waters, ( in Ireland at least)  the River Boyne and the River Shannon. The water of sacred wells was also seen as a  regenerative life-force, perhaps to grow back severed limbs, make a woman conceive or give great wisdom when drunk or bathed in it. . During Pagan times, carved totems, jewelry, weapons and cauldrons were dropped into wells, lochs, and rivers as votive offerings to the deities.