Nautis Project

I went to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum this weekend in Washington, D.C. Since I’ve been there about 90 times, you would think that I would get tired of going, but I never seem to. Some of the technology there has been used to destroy, though much of it was done for the good [...]

At its root, the word “Thuggee” means “deceivers,” and this name hints at the methods employed by the cult. Bands of Thugs traveled across the country posing as pilgrims, merchants, soldiers, or even royalty, in groups numbering anywhere from a few men to several hundred.read more | digg story

The late Carl Sagan once asked this question, “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we [...]

If you’ve read even a little bit of Jung, you are familiar with the term, “synchronicity”. Wikipedia defines this as, “the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them.” Serendipity refers to finding something unexpected where you were not [...]

A field study released Monday by the University of North Carolina School of Public Health suggests that Iraqi citizens experience sadness and a sense of loss when relatives, spouses, and even friends perish, emotions that have until recently been identified almost exclusively with Westerners.read more | digg story

“Given how intent Bush is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution’s framers viewed presidential power. They were revolutionaries who detested kings, and their great concern when they established the U.S. was that they not accidentally create a kingdom. To guard against it, they sharply limited presidential power.”read more | [...]