Just how common are reports of sex with ghosts?
TIME & SPACE:
Two people earnestly trying to build time machines
How To Build A Time Machine is a documentary by filmmaker Jay Cheel about two men working separately to build time machines. One, Rob Niosi, has spent 11 years creating a full-sized replica of the time machine described in H.G. Wells' novella. Meanwhile, physicist Ronald Mallett (once featured on a segment of This American Life) is obsessed with understanding and mastering time so he can go back and save his father from an untimely death...
1968 Futuro UFO, low miles, gently used, $30K OBO
Who doesn’t want to live in a UFO? Now you can live out your dream for the low, low price of $30,000 USD. These marvels are the brainchild of Finnish artist and architect, Matti Suuronen. His design embodies the unbridled optimism of the final frontier, combining the convenience of prefabricated materials with Finnish ingenuity...
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:
The riddle of twin telepathy
Many identical twins — perhaps as many as one in five — claim to share a special psychic connection. About one out of every 30 babies born in the United States is a twin, and identical twins are especially interesting because they have the same genes and are alike in many ways. Brothers and sisters can be close, but some twins claim to know what the other is thinking or feeling...
(Also read: The Best Evidence for Telepathy Between Twins)
Do our thoughts exist in the physical world?
We don't tend to think of our thoughts as being separate to our physical selves yet to date we still know very little about the inner workings of our own consciousness or how we interact with the world on a metaphysical level...
RELIGIOUS MYSTERIES:
Why it's perfectly normal to see Jesus in toast
The man in the moon. Jesus in toast. The Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich. Faces are everywhere — even when they're not, strictly speaking, supposed to be. New research reveals the brain processes that underlie these facial false alarms, a phenomenon called "face pareidolia"...
MEDIA – BOOKS, MOVIES, TV:
Penny Dreadful review: Monster mashup a gory good time
Just as Universal gave us Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man in 1943, Logan gives us vampires, Frankenstein's monster, Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, allusions to the return of Jack the Ripper and heaven knows what else beyond the two Penny Dreadful episodes sent to critics for review. Make that "hell only knows," because the captivating series, set in London in 1891, is giddily awash with blood and gore, not to mention steamy sex...
TNT greenlights supernatural drama series Proof
Jennifer Beals plays Dr. Carolyn Tyler, a brilliant surgeon with a caustic edge. Her goal is to find verifiable proof to life’s greatest questions: Is death truly the end, or is there something else beyond?...