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Pseudonyms and Fuzzy Memories

Posted by Chris Parizo on Thu, Mar 11, 2010

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Over the past two years, I rode the rollercoaster of being a “professional” paranormal investigator. I joined and left three different paranormal groups: one documented in earlier Contrarian posts, and two recent groups where I used a pseudonym and a fabricated personal history in the hopes of hiding from my very “Googleable” existence (19,800 results [...]

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The Hauntings of Chernobyl and Pripyat

Posted by Chris Parizo on Tue, Feb 16, 2010

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On the morning of April 26,  1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union exploded. The incident is the only level seven event — a “Major Accident” and the highest grade possible — to occur on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The result was fallout four hundred times [...]

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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Thu, Feb 4, 2010

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I’m super busy this semester, hence the intermittent posting (here and at my own blog), but these out-of-this-world links keep piling up anyway. Here are a few to releave the pressure in my Firefox tabs… Dear Media, Hello. It’s me, Science. (see also Dear Homeopathy and Dear Astrology)  Hubble images a Klingon Bird of Prey wicked cool [...]

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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Mon, Jan 11, 2010

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First up in the Spacetime continuum… *Look at this fucking picture of the surface of Mars. *Once every billion years or so, heat deep with the Saturnian moon of Enceladus causes ice volcanoes to erupt like crazy. It turns out this once-in-a-billion-years event is happening right now as Cassini watches. *Speaking of volcanos, the first “Earth like” (by [...]

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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Mon, Jan 4, 2010

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Unfortunately, the new year has produced precious little in the way of interesting cosmological tidbits so far. I did scrounge up the link below, which is a little 2010 science preview, but in the meantime I’ll take the opportunity to recommend a BBC series that occasionally runs on Discovery’s Science Channel here in the states. [...]

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