Mood:  bright

It takes 'around two years' for songs that appear in the waters off Australia to be heard in French Polynesia.

When Lady Gaga releases a catchy new single, it quickly goes around  the world.

Now scientists have discovered the same thing happens with the songs of another exotic creature – the humpback whale.

The mammals become fixated on new tunes just like people do, and the most popular original whale songs spread globally like hit singles.

The discovery has stunned marine experts who say it is the first time such a large, ‘population wide cultural exchange’ has been seen in the animal kingdom.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 18:43 MEST

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A two-year-old girl diagnosed with a deadly cancer may have been saved by her £3 toothbrush.

Katie Lolley was found to have a rare eye tumour after a flashing light on the Tesco brush alerted her mother to an abnormal white reflection on her eye, reports The Sun.

Retinoblastoma is a rare, rapidly developing tumour which generally affects children under the age of six, and can treble in size in just ten days.

Medics say they had caught it just in time to save Katie’s life, and will reportedly perform an emergency operation to remove her eye.

Full Story from uk.news.yahoo.com

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 15:04 MEST

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Gardaí (police) in Co Mayo, Ireland have been recorded talking about threatening to rape a woman in their custody. The Gardaí, including a Sergeant, have been prominent in policing protests against Shell’s inland gas refinery.

‘Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you’: the reality of Corrib policing from Dublin Shell to Sea on Vimeo.

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 11:21 MEST

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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864 - April 13, 1955)

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 MEST

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More than a thousand people gathered at a New York City conference center on a recent Sunday coming from around the world, in hopes of an out-of-this-world experience.

At up to $139 a ticket, they seemed confident that through hypnosis they'd uncover lost memories ... not just of this life, but of past lives as well.

"Be there, back there, before your birth ..."

Call them "Come as you were" events - reincarnation conventions, no longer considered completely off-the-wall, and growing in popularity.

"You can remember everything ..."

One woman said she had an experience on the Titanic. Another subject "regressed back to, I want to say, the mid-1800s, in England."

Another woman said, "I recognized that I was about to see Jesus deliver his Sermon on the Mount."

For Dr. Brian Weiss, a firm believer in reincarnation, such stories are all in a day's work ... hardly what you'd expect from a graduate of Yale's prestigious medical school.

Full Story from cbsnews.com

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 20:55 MEST

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At least that is the theory proposed by a scientist who has discovered a reason as to how the red planet got its rosy colour.

According to Dr John Brandednberg, about 180 million years ago, a planet-shattering yet naturally occurring nuclear reaction may have wiped out everything on Mars, sending a shockwave that turned the planet into dry sand.

He told Fox News: 'The Martian surface is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium - and this pattern radiates from a hot spot on Mars.

'A nuclear explosion could have sent debris all around the planet.

Full Story from dailymail.co.uk

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 17:02 MEST

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Close allies of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).

Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds".

Full Story from guardian.co.uk

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 10:34 MEST

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825)

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Mood:  quizzical

Try and stay awake through this video!

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 18:30 MEST

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SECRETS of the Titanic disaster have been uncovered in a new book – which also reveals the truth about its Midland captain.

Researcher Tim Maltin spent two years scouring historical records, eyewitness accounts and transcripts of official investigations into the sinking of the ill-fated liner.

The Titanic was on her maiden voyage to New York when it hit an iceberg at 11.40pm on April 14, 1912, and sank at 2.20am the following morning – dooming 1,517 people to a watery grave.

Full Story from sundaymercury.net

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 15:21 MEST

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