A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom!
Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Science & Futurism
* "Tiny ‘ghost particle’ helps scientists solve century-old space radiation mystery" (2018-07-12, rt.com) [archive.fo/Qzv1J]
* "High-energy "ghost particle" reveals birthplace of cosmic rays: studies" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/lJqFn]
Image, a "Ghost Particle Beam Emitter", "Ghost Gun"
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* "Swiss researchers close to single-atom magnetic data storage" (2018-07-13, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/wTYIE]
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* "Aussie-linked research points to smaller electronic devices via molecules" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/TgQii]
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* "American, Chinese scientists develop DNA-based silica structures, inspired by diatom" (2018-07-16, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/ofXyK]
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* "The future of personal aviation? Startup unveils ‘safe & affordable flying car’ " (2018-07-13, rt.com) [archive.fo/ZEJ3C]
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* "GENE EDITING TOOL TRIED OUT ON MAMMALS; Could Gene Editors Select What People Inherit From Their Parents?" (2018-07-14, whowhatwhy.org) [archive.is/1gwFl]
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* "Study by Chinese, British universities finds new ways to regenerate blood vessels" (2018-07-13, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/DsFRa]
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Space News
* " ‘Alien arachnids’: Spider-like mounds captured by NASA on Martian surface" (2018-07-16, rt.com) [archive.is/aySB6]
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Ancient News
Backbeat [archive.is/INMHk]
* "World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan" (2018-07-17, cgtn.com) [archive.is/uvVCU]
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* "Ancient ‘Iceman’ shows signs of a well-balanced last meal" (2018-07-13, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/quWkA]
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* "Property Owner Reports ‘Lump’ on His Land – Archaeologists Find 4,000-Year-Old Burial Mound" (2018-04-02, ancient-origins.net) [archive.is/OPdcz]
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* "Britain's sizzling heatwave reveals hidden sites in Scotland occupied by Romans, iron Age settlers" (2018-07-13, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/uOEHg]
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* "Archaeological Exhibition: Unearthed Jiaojia relics on display in Beijing" (2018-07-11, broadcast transcript, cgtn.com) [archive.is/6XVeW]
* "Relics unearthed at Jiaojia on display at National Museum of China" (2018-07-11, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/tyijg] [begin excerpt]: Hundreds of artifacts, which were recently unearthed in the village of Jiaojia in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, are now on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing.
Among those are items from a 5,000-year-old graveyard of "giants" whom experts say would have been unusually tall and strong.
Over 230 relics unearthed at Jiaojia are on display, from colorful pottery to jade ware.
The ruin site was believed to be the political, economic and cultural center of Shandong 5,000 years ago. Since 2016, archaeologists have been excavating the ruins of 116 houses and 215 graves.
Skeletons of 5,000-year-old Chinese "giants" discovered at the ruins are also on display.
The measurements of the bones indicate that at least one man may have reached 1.9 meters tall with quite a few at 1.8 meters or taller, which experts say is incredible. [end excerpt]
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* "Dunhuang concert using reproduced ancient instruments brings history to life" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/fIYPx]:
Zhu Xiaofeng, with the academy, said Dunhuang Caves contains an archive of ancient music scores, and half of the 492 caves in southern Mogao area include wall paintings depicting music-playing scenes.
"More than 6,000 musical instruments can be found in the paintings. Every musical instrument that appeared throughout China's history can be found in Dunhuang's paintings," he said. [...]
More than 450 of Dunhuang's Mogao Caves, along with the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, were among the first Chinese sites recognized by the United Nations' World Heritage Center in the 1980s.
Zhu said a total of 735 caves created since the fourth century onwards had been preserved near Dunhuang, a desert oasis, and crossroads of the Silk Road, which served as a depository for Buddhist art for around a millennium. The caves contain 45,000 square meters of wall paintings and 2,000 colored statues. [end excerpt]
* "Dunhuang concert brings history to life with reproduced ancient instruments" (2018-07-13, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/QgKxz]
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* "128-meter-long painting documents voyages of ancient explorer Zheng He" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/dDEN9]
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* " 'Oldest known extract' of Homer's Odyssey discovered in Greece" (2018-07-11, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/lep8X]
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* "Ancient Romans may have hunted whales: study" (2018-07-11, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/6Y4rW]
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* "Switzerland's Basel University deciphers mystery of 2,000-year-old papyrus" (2018-07-16, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/dwCns]
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* "Old Maps and Hi-Tech Scans Reveal A Lost City’s Watery Past" (2018-06-01, by Ashley Cowie) [archive.is/nwDMM] [begin excerpt]: Many European explorers visited the lost city of Gerasa in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first official archaeological excavation, however, took place in 1907 which uncovered “a splendid mosaic, which today is spread across the world in a number of collections, including the Pergamon Museum in Berlin,” according to a Science Nordic article. Gerasa was first formally excavated in the 1920s and 1930s by Yale scholar C. H. Kraeling who headed up an American-British archaeological mission which established that Gerasa was an “important city in the eastern Roman Empire covering an area of approximately 90 ha, encircled by more than 4 kilometers of city walls.”
Having been destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 749 AD lifestyles diminished and it was not until the Middle Islamic period (starting in the 12th century AD) settlement started again. Even though over the last century many teams of archaeologists have worked in Gerasa, large parts of the city remained unexplored and were being threatened by looting and modern developments. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Views over the Oval Piazza at Jerash from 1898 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-matpc-04523) ( A) and 2015 (Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Excavation Project) ( B). Note the extensive clearance of rubble, construction of tracks, and reconstruction of ruins in foreground and expansive urbanization in background in B.
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* "First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact; A new study offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, the study found" (2018-07-05, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, via sciencedaily.com) [archive.is/BCwwf] [begin excerpt]: These dogs persisted for thousands of years in the Americas, but almost completely vanished after European contact, the researchers found.
"This suggests something catastrophic must have happened, and it's likely associated with European colonization," said senior lead author Laurent Frantz, a lecturer at Queen Mary University and co-investigator at the University of Oxford. "But we just do not have the evidence to explain this sudden disappearance yet."
"By looking at genomic data along with mitochondrial data, we were able to confirm that dogs came to the Americas with humans, and that nearly all of that diversity was lost -- most likely as a result of European colonization," said Kelsey Witt, who led the mitochondrial DNA genome work as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois anthropology professor Ripan Malhi, who also is an author of the study.
"Few modern dogs have any trace of these ancient lineages," said Witt, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Merced. [...]
"It is known how Indigenous peoples of the Americas suffered from the genocidal practices of European colonists after contact," he said. "What we found is that the dogs of Indigenous peoples experienced an even more devastating history and a near-total loss, possibly as a result of forced cultural changes and disease." [end excerpt]
- image caption: A ritual burial of two dogs at a site in Illinois near St. Louis suggests a special relationship between humans and dogs at this location and time (660 to 1350 years ago).
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* "The Moundbuilders: North America’s Little-known Native Architects" (2017-06-14, by Mark Miller) [archive.is/xyqoX]
* "Ancient mound builders carefully timed their occupation of coastal Louisiana site; A new study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected the landforms that supported their villages and earthen mounds -- and why these sites were later abandoned" (2018-05-22, sciencedaily.com) [archive.is/jYzJK], map caption: Hundreds of ancient mound sites, depicted here with yellow triangles, still survive in coastal Louisiana. A new study teases out the natural and human history of one of these mound-top villages, a site known as Grand Caillou, shown in red.
* "Burned Bones, Mysterious Timber Circles & the Rites of the Ancients - Adena Culture in Mason County" (2018-12-07, by Jason Jarrell and Sarah Farmer) [archive.is/EPNXC]
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* "Mexico Earthquake Unveils Lost Ancient Temple Inside Pyramid; The temple was discovered when archaeologists were analyzing the damage in Teopanzolco pyramid" (2018-07-16, telesurtv.net) [archive.is/QrAkz]
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* "Archaeologists and astronomers solve the mystery of Chile's Stonehenge; A solar phenomenon found above mysterious pillars, or saywas, was likely designed to broadcast the ‘sacred power’ of the Inca" (2018-07-16, theguardian.com) [archive.is/ZJJII]
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* "Pre-Columbian earth-builders settled along the entire southern rim of the Amazon" (2018-03-27, via nature.com) [archive.is/kPd0C]
* "Pre-Columbian Amazon Was Not So Virgin After All" (2018-03-28, by Alicia McDermott) [archive.is/mNPHt] [begin excerpt]: The Chicago Tribune reports [archive.is/af753] that 81 geoglyphs have been found in the upper Tapajós Basin, a “transitional zone” where Brazil borders Bolivia. This area receives less rainfall than lower regions and is also called terra firme. It is a place that rarely floods and a location which archaeologists have largely ignored in favor of more fertile regions closer to large rivers.
Jonas De Souza of the University of Exeter, UK collaborated with other scientists Britain and Brazil to explore a terra firme region which has been forgotten, despite being bordered on the east and west with archaeological sites. According to The Guardian [archive.is/h7XJ8], the new sites were first noted in deforested areas by satellite imagery. [...]
The possibility was too exciting to leave at satellite image analysis, so researchers set off to explore 24 of the sites on the ground. De Souza told The Guardian, “Everything that we identified on satellite imagery that we tested was an archeological site.” [...]
De Souza said that the team found artifacts such as ceramics and polished stone axes, and also dark fertile earth which comes with extended human habitation. No buildings have been detected, but that’s not surprising because they were probably made of wood. Charcoal found near the ceramics at the sites has been carbon dated to 1410 - 1460 AD, in line with sites in the southern part of the Amazon, which were most active between 1250 and 1500.
One of the most startling results of the research [archive.is/kPd0C] is the claim based on models that 500,000 to a million people were living in that part of the Amazon and they may have built some 1,000 to 1,500 enclosures! De Souza clarified , “It's probably the case that some areas of the Amazon were sustaining large populations and others were not. Because there is so little research, we are slowly discovering what was happening in each.”
That large of a population would have certainly meant modification to the rainforest, but de Souza pointed out ,
“The forest is an artifact of modification. It has nothing to do with the kind of practice we are seeing nowadays - large-scale, clearing monoculture. These people were combining small-scale agriculture with management of useful tree species. So it was more a sustainable kind of land use.” [end excerpt]
- image caption: Ditched enclosures of the Upper Tapajós Basin (UTB).
- image caption: Examples of geoglyphs and mounded ring villages in the Amazon: a. LiDAR digital terrain model of the Jacó Sá site. b. Aerial photo of one of the structures at Jacó Sá site. c. Aerial photo of Fonte Boa site. (Source: CNPq research group Geoglyphs of Western Amazonia)
* "Lost Amazon villages uncovered by archaeologists; 81 settlements have been found in an area once thought to have been near-uninhabited, and research suggests there were hundreds more" (2018-03-27, theguardian.com) [archive.is/h7XJ8]
* "Archaeologists discover 81 ancient settlements in the Amazon" (2018-03-28, Washington Post, via chicagotribune.com) [archive.is/af753]
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* "India forms expert panel to save iconic Taj Mahal from pollution" (2018-07-17, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/XG2G4]
* " ‘Demolish Taj Mahal or restore it’: Top Indian court issues dire warning" (2018-07-11, rt.com) [archive.fo/nfc0o]
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* "Shroud of Turin mystery deepens after dramatic ‘bleeding simulation’ experiment" (2018-07-16, rt.com) [archive.is/iaeLj]
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Science & Futurism
* "Tiny ‘ghost particle’ helps scientists solve century-old space radiation mystery" (2018-07-12, rt.com) [archive.fo/Qzv1J]
* "High-energy "ghost particle" reveals birthplace of cosmic rays: studies" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/lJqFn]
Image, a "Ghost Particle Beam Emitter", "Ghost Gun"
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* "Swiss researchers close to single-atom magnetic data storage" (2018-07-13, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/wTYIE]
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* "Aussie-linked research points to smaller electronic devices via molecules" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/TgQii]
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* "American, Chinese scientists develop DNA-based silica structures, inspired by diatom" (2018-07-16, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/ofXyK]
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* "The future of personal aviation? Startup unveils ‘safe & affordable flying car’ " (2018-07-13, rt.com) [archive.fo/ZEJ3C]
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* "GENE EDITING TOOL TRIED OUT ON MAMMALS; Could Gene Editors Select What People Inherit From Their Parents?" (2018-07-14, whowhatwhy.org) [archive.is/1gwFl]
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* "Study by Chinese, British universities finds new ways to regenerate blood vessels" (2018-07-13, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/DsFRa]
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Space News
* " ‘Alien arachnids’: Spider-like mounds captured by NASA on Martian surface" (2018-07-16, rt.com) [archive.is/aySB6]
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Ancient News
Backbeat [archive.is/INMHk]
* "World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan" (2018-07-17, cgtn.com) [archive.is/uvVCU]
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* "Ancient ‘Iceman’ shows signs of a well-balanced last meal" (2018-07-13, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/quWkA]
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* "Property Owner Reports ‘Lump’ on His Land – Archaeologists Find 4,000-Year-Old Burial Mound" (2018-04-02, ancient-origins.net) [archive.is/OPdcz]
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* "Britain's sizzling heatwave reveals hidden sites in Scotland occupied by Romans, iron Age settlers" (2018-07-13, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/uOEHg]
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* "Archaeological Exhibition: Unearthed Jiaojia relics on display in Beijing" (2018-07-11, broadcast transcript, cgtn.com) [archive.is/6XVeW]
* "Relics unearthed at Jiaojia on display at National Museum of China" (2018-07-11, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/tyijg] [begin excerpt]: Hundreds of artifacts, which were recently unearthed in the village of Jiaojia in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, are now on display at the National Museum of China in Beijing.
Among those are items from a 5,000-year-old graveyard of "giants" whom experts say would have been unusually tall and strong.
Over 230 relics unearthed at Jiaojia are on display, from colorful pottery to jade ware.
The ruin site was believed to be the political, economic and cultural center of Shandong 5,000 years ago. Since 2016, archaeologists have been excavating the ruins of 116 houses and 215 graves.
Skeletons of 5,000-year-old Chinese "giants" discovered at the ruins are also on display.
The measurements of the bones indicate that at least one man may have reached 1.9 meters tall with quite a few at 1.8 meters or taller, which experts say is incredible. [end excerpt]
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* "Dunhuang concert using reproduced ancient instruments brings history to life" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/fIYPx]:
Zhu Xiaofeng, with the academy, said Dunhuang Caves contains an archive of ancient music scores, and half of the 492 caves in southern Mogao area include wall paintings depicting music-playing scenes.
"More than 6,000 musical instruments can be found in the paintings. Every musical instrument that appeared throughout China's history can be found in Dunhuang's paintings," he said. [...]
More than 450 of Dunhuang's Mogao Caves, along with the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, were among the first Chinese sites recognized by the United Nations' World Heritage Center in the 1980s.
Zhu said a total of 735 caves created since the fourth century onwards had been preserved near Dunhuang, a desert oasis, and crossroads of the Silk Road, which served as a depository for Buddhist art for around a millennium. The caves contain 45,000 square meters of wall paintings and 2,000 colored statues. [end excerpt]
* "Dunhuang concert brings history to life with reproduced ancient instruments" (2018-07-13, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/QgKxz]
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* "128-meter-long painting documents voyages of ancient explorer Zheng He" (2018-07-12, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/dDEN9]
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* " 'Oldest known extract' of Homer's Odyssey discovered in Greece" (2018-07-11, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/lep8X]
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* "Ancient Romans may have hunted whales: study" (2018-07-11, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/6Y4rW]
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* "Switzerland's Basel University deciphers mystery of 2,000-year-old papyrus" (2018-07-16, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/dwCns]
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* "Old Maps and Hi-Tech Scans Reveal A Lost City’s Watery Past" (2018-06-01, by Ashley Cowie) [archive.is/nwDMM] [begin excerpt]: Many European explorers visited the lost city of Gerasa in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first official archaeological excavation, however, took place in 1907 which uncovered “a splendid mosaic, which today is spread across the world in a number of collections, including the Pergamon Museum in Berlin,” according to a Science Nordic article. Gerasa was first formally excavated in the 1920s and 1930s by Yale scholar C. H. Kraeling who headed up an American-British archaeological mission which established that Gerasa was an “important city in the eastern Roman Empire covering an area of approximately 90 ha, encircled by more than 4 kilometers of city walls.”
Having been destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 749 AD lifestyles diminished and it was not until the Middle Islamic period (starting in the 12th century AD) settlement started again. Even though over the last century many teams of archaeologists have worked in Gerasa, large parts of the city remained unexplored and were being threatened by looting and modern developments. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Views over the Oval Piazza at Jerash from 1898 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-matpc-04523) ( A) and 2015 (Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Excavation Project) ( B). Note the extensive clearance of rubble, construction of tracks, and reconstruction of ruins in foreground and expansive urbanization in background in B.
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* "First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact; A new study offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, the study found" (2018-07-05, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, via sciencedaily.com) [archive.is/BCwwf] [begin excerpt]: These dogs persisted for thousands of years in the Americas, but almost completely vanished after European contact, the researchers found.
"This suggests something catastrophic must have happened, and it's likely associated with European colonization," said senior lead author Laurent Frantz, a lecturer at Queen Mary University and co-investigator at the University of Oxford. "But we just do not have the evidence to explain this sudden disappearance yet."
"By looking at genomic data along with mitochondrial data, we were able to confirm that dogs came to the Americas with humans, and that nearly all of that diversity was lost -- most likely as a result of European colonization," said Kelsey Witt, who led the mitochondrial DNA genome work as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois anthropology professor Ripan Malhi, who also is an author of the study.
"Few modern dogs have any trace of these ancient lineages," said Witt, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Merced. [...]
"It is known how Indigenous peoples of the Americas suffered from the genocidal practices of European colonists after contact," he said. "What we found is that the dogs of Indigenous peoples experienced an even more devastating history and a near-total loss, possibly as a result of forced cultural changes and disease." [end excerpt]
- image caption: A ritual burial of two dogs at a site in Illinois near St. Louis suggests a special relationship between humans and dogs at this location and time (660 to 1350 years ago).
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* "The Moundbuilders: North America’s Little-known Native Architects" (2017-06-14, by Mark Miller) [archive.is/xyqoX]
* "Ancient mound builders carefully timed their occupation of coastal Louisiana site; A new study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers new insights into how Native peoples selected the landforms that supported their villages and earthen mounds -- and why these sites were later abandoned" (2018-05-22, sciencedaily.com) [archive.is/jYzJK], map caption: Hundreds of ancient mound sites, depicted here with yellow triangles, still survive in coastal Louisiana. A new study teases out the natural and human history of one of these mound-top villages, a site known as Grand Caillou, shown in red.
* "Burned Bones, Mysterious Timber Circles & the Rites of the Ancients - Adena Culture in Mason County" (2018-12-07, by Jason Jarrell and Sarah Farmer) [archive.is/EPNXC]
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* "Mexico Earthquake Unveils Lost Ancient Temple Inside Pyramid; The temple was discovered when archaeologists were analyzing the damage in Teopanzolco pyramid" (2018-07-16, telesurtv.net) [archive.is/QrAkz]
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* "Archaeologists and astronomers solve the mystery of Chile's Stonehenge; A solar phenomenon found above mysterious pillars, or saywas, was likely designed to broadcast the ‘sacred power’ of the Inca" (2018-07-16, theguardian.com) [archive.is/ZJJII]
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* "Pre-Columbian earth-builders settled along the entire southern rim of the Amazon" (2018-03-27, via nature.com) [archive.is/kPd0C]
* "Pre-Columbian Amazon Was Not So Virgin After All" (2018-03-28, by Alicia McDermott) [archive.is/mNPHt] [begin excerpt]: The Chicago Tribune reports [archive.is/af753] that 81 geoglyphs have been found in the upper Tapajós Basin, a “transitional zone” where Brazil borders Bolivia. This area receives less rainfall than lower regions and is also called terra firme. It is a place that rarely floods and a location which archaeologists have largely ignored in favor of more fertile regions closer to large rivers.
Jonas De Souza of the University of Exeter, UK collaborated with other scientists Britain and Brazil to explore a terra firme region which has been forgotten, despite being bordered on the east and west with archaeological sites. According to The Guardian [archive.is/h7XJ8], the new sites were first noted in deforested areas by satellite imagery. [...]
The possibility was too exciting to leave at satellite image analysis, so researchers set off to explore 24 of the sites on the ground. De Souza told The Guardian, “Everything that we identified on satellite imagery that we tested was an archeological site.” [...]
De Souza said that the team found artifacts such as ceramics and polished stone axes, and also dark fertile earth which comes with extended human habitation. No buildings have been detected, but that’s not surprising because they were probably made of wood. Charcoal found near the ceramics at the sites has been carbon dated to 1410 - 1460 AD, in line with sites in the southern part of the Amazon, which were most active between 1250 and 1500.
One of the most startling results of the research [archive.is/kPd0C] is the claim based on models that 500,000 to a million people were living in that part of the Amazon and they may have built some 1,000 to 1,500 enclosures! De Souza clarified , “It's probably the case that some areas of the Amazon were sustaining large populations and others were not. Because there is so little research, we are slowly discovering what was happening in each.”
That large of a population would have certainly meant modification to the rainforest, but de Souza pointed out ,
“The forest is an artifact of modification. It has nothing to do with the kind of practice we are seeing nowadays - large-scale, clearing monoculture. These people were combining small-scale agriculture with management of useful tree species. So it was more a sustainable kind of land use.” [end excerpt]
- image caption: Ditched enclosures of the Upper Tapajós Basin (UTB).
- image caption: Examples of geoglyphs and mounded ring villages in the Amazon: a. LiDAR digital terrain model of the Jacó Sá site. b. Aerial photo of one of the structures at Jacó Sá site. c. Aerial photo of Fonte Boa site. (Source: CNPq research group Geoglyphs of Western Amazonia)
* "Lost Amazon villages uncovered by archaeologists; 81 settlements have been found in an area once thought to have been near-uninhabited, and research suggests there were hundreds more" (2018-03-27, theguardian.com) [archive.is/h7XJ8]
* "Archaeologists discover 81 ancient settlements in the Amazon" (2018-03-28, Washington Post, via chicagotribune.com) [archive.is/af753]
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* "India forms expert panel to save iconic Taj Mahal from pollution" (2018-07-17, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/XG2G4]
* " ‘Demolish Taj Mahal or restore it’: Top Indian court issues dire warning" (2018-07-11, rt.com) [archive.fo/nfc0o]
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* "Shroud of Turin mystery deepens after dramatic ‘bleeding simulation’ experiment" (2018-07-16, rt.com) [archive.is/iaeLj]
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* "Former Airmen to Govt.: Come Clean on UFOs; Former U.S. Air Force Officers Recount Experiences With UFOs at Nuclear Missile Bases" (2010-09-27, abcnews.go.com) [archive.is/eoTqj]
* "UFOs Disabling Nuclear Missiles: Former Senator Says Veterans' Testimony is the "Smoking Gun" Confirming a U.S. Government Cover-up" (2013-05-07, via online.wsj.com) [archive.is/7Dusg]
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* "UK universities urged to probe malpractice, fraud in research projects" (2018-07-11, xinhuanet.com) [archive.is/O6cfw], (2018-07-12, cgtn.com) [archive.fo/9Yd8x]
* "The Lifespan of a Lie; The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham. Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?" (2018-06-07, by Ben Blum, via medium.com) [archive.fo/4WkCD]
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Curiata
* "Book Review: 'Psychic Discoveries' by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder" (2003-08-25, by Eleanor White) [archive.is/KrOUs]
* "How it all started - in Russia" [archive.is/YK2y4], chapter 1 of "Lucid Viewing - The Way Forward" [archive.is/EtSOW]
* "Soviet Research into Remote Viewing" (learnremoteviewing.com) [archive.is/7fcgn]
* "Leonid Vasiliev" (retrieved 2017-10-07, wikipedia.org) [archive.is/qfLWe]:
Leonid Leonidovich Vasiliev (1891-1966) was a Russian Soviet parapsychologist and physiologist.[1]He worked as a professor of physiology at Leningrad University. He helped establish the first parapsychology laboratory at Leningrad.
Vasiliev conducted experiments with subjects into telepathy and reported successful results.[2] After Vasiliev's main experiments were completed, his laboratory staff made an official statement declaring "We have not established whether telepathy exists. We want to find out. Then we can say yes or no."[3] His research was discontinued.[4] Vasiliev's book Experiments in Mental Suggestion was translated into English in 1963 and was popular with Western parapsychologists.[4]
Robin Waterfield stated that from the reports it was difficult to ascertain what controls there were in the experiments.[5] The psychologist C. E. M. Hansel has criticized Vasiliev's experiments, stating that he "made little attempt to control the human factor in his experiments... insufficient information is given in Vasiliev's book about the precise conditions under which his experiments were carried out... The chief weakness lies in the lack of precautions against errors in recording and against the experimenter being affected by what he knows about the experiment."[6]
Such criticism was echoed by the parapsychologist Stephen E. Braude, who stated that on the whole, "Vasiliev's experiments are not described in the kind of detail one would expect from a thoroughly scientific publication. Moreover, the long distance experiments are clearly preliminary in nature and invite various refinements in design, some of which were already planned when Vasiliev wrote his book. Nevertheless, his experiments are suggestive and deserve attempts at replication."[7]
Publications -
- Mysterious Manifestations of the Human Psyche (1959)
- Experiments in Mental Suggestion (1963)
- Experiments in Distant Influence (1976)
References -
- (1): Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer. (1997). The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Cornell University. p. 258. ISBN 0-8014-8331-X
- (2): Research on Telepathy in the Soviet Union. (1962). New Scientist. 22 March. p. 672
- (3): Neher, Andrew. (2011). Paranormal and Transcendental Experience: A Psychological Examination. Dover. p. 149. ISBN 0-486-26167-0
- (4): Soviet Notebook: Crackdown on Parapsychology. (1975). New Scientist. 13 February. p. 397
- (5): Waterfield, Robin. (2003). Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis. Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 0-415-94791-X
- (6): Hansel, C. E. M. (1980). ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Reevaluation. Prometheus Books. pp. 209-2010
- (7): Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination. Universal-Publishers. p. 123
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* "Electronics & Brain Control; We are learning more about our gray-matter computers" (1973-07, by L. George Lawrence, Popular Electronics magazine) [archive.is/bgh78] [begin excerpt]:
Brain·Wave Detection.
Some 40-odd years ago, university professor F. Cazzamalli started publishing papers on the subject of brain-wave detection and implied that he had detected radiations from the mind. As shown in Fig. 4, he placed subjects in a shielded room (or Faraday cage), emanated vhf radio waves through their heads, and claimed to have recorded "beat frequencies" obtained with an untuned receiver consisting of a galena crystal or diode tube, a fixed capacitor, an antenna, and a sensitive light-beam galvanometer.
The trouble is that Cazzamalli never mentioned transmitter power in his somewhat unprofessional papers. His oscillograms meant to show variations of the "beat" when his subjects were emotionally aroused or engaged in creative tasks when they were in the Faraday cage. Later, he told an astounded world that his subjects would hallucinate when under the influence of his "oscillatori telegrafica," its frequency being about 300 MHz at the time.
Tom Jaski, a noted science writer and engineer, duplicated some of Cazzamalli's work with a modern low-power oscillator that was swept from 300 MHz to 600 MHz. His subjects could not see the dial. They were told to sound off as soon as they felt something unusual. At a certain frequency range — varying between 380 MHz and 500 MHz — the subjects repeatedly indicated points with exact accuracy in as many as 14 out of 15 trials. At these "individual" frequencies, the same subjects announced having experienced pulsing sensations in the brain, ringing in the ears, and an odd desire to bite the experimenters. The oscillator's output power was only a few milliwatts, while the oscillator itself was located several feet away from the subjects. [end excerpt]
* "SAYS HUMAN BRAIN EMITS RADIO WAVES; Prof. Cazzamali of Milan Declares They Can Be Harnessed for Distant Communication" (1925-08-21, nytimes.com, preview version) [archive.is/WE1Yq] [begin excerpt]: That the human brain is capable of the emission of radiographic waves, which, harnessed and reduced to a code, will create a method of communication between distant minds as perfect as that developed by wireless telegraphy, is the conclusion reached by Ferdinando Cazzamali, an Italian scientist, who is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Milan. [end excerpt]
* "RADIO'S AID IS INVOKED TO EXPLORE TELEPATHY; Professor Cazzamali's Experiments Called Praiseworthy, But Evidence Seems Not Sufficient to Show That Thought Waves Were Received" (1925-08-30, nytimes.com, preview version) [archive.is/KS1Mr] [begin excerpt]: THE scientific study of thought transference has suddenly become respectable. Only a few years ago no scientist who valued his reputation would have dared to touch it. Let his colleagues hear a mere whisper that Professor Somebody was "dabbling in the occult" and that professor was listed among the lost souls of the scientific world. [end excerpt]
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* "Nikola Tesla on the Borderland" article archive (via borderlandsciences.org) [archive.is/yKLzU]:
"My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists." - attr.
True Wireless & the World System
- "On Electricity" (1897), in which Tesla suggests "the transmission of power from station to station without the employment of any connecting wire." [archive.is/vsxg6]
- "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" (1900) [archive.is/wvchN]
- "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires" (1904), a letter on the preliminary stages of a plan to wirelessly transmit energy on an industrial scale [archive.is/kJb5O].
- "The True Wireless" (1919), article on the Tesla tuned-oscillatory system and arguments against conventional Hertzian wave theory [archive.is/4tOMH].
- "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy" (1927) [archive.is/SHOAI]
Interplanetary Communications
- "Is Tesla to Signal Stars?" (1896), a summation of news reports on Tesla's proposed experiments [archive.is/BpMgU].
- "Interplanetary Communication Now Probable" (1900), from Tesla's broader overview of his efforts, "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" [is.gd/dokuRq].
- "Signalling to Mars — A Problem of Electrical Engineering" (1907), written by Tesla himself [archive.is/qGq5C].
- "Tesla to Talk to Mars" (1907), a summation of reports on Tesla's plans to conduct wireless transmissions to Mars from Wardenclyffe [archive.is/wDF5q].
- "Talking with the Planets" (1909), written by Tesla, a "frank statement of what he expects to accomplish and how he hopes to establish communication with the planets" [archive.is/kRFTr].
- "That Prospective Communication with Another Planet" (1919), summation of reports on Tesla's response to Marconi's claims of receiving interstellar wireless signals [archive.is/85FHs].
- "Signals to Mars Based on Hope of Life on Planet" (1919), written by Tesla, details the challenges and promise of any attempt to communicate with Mars via wireless [archive.is/SQiol].
About Tesla and His Work
- Gaston Burridge on "Nikola Tesla - and the Chain of Silent Sparks" (1956) [archive.is/5EXA1]
- Gerry Vassilatos on "The Broadcast Power of Nikola Tesla" (1996), part 1 [archive.is/itCNH], part 2 [archive.is/iaTJl]
- Robert Nelson on "Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter Experiments of 1899" (1997) [archive.is/W0Wq7]
- George Trinkaus on "The Tesla Mystique: Nikola Tesla, The Philadelphia Experiment, HAARP and Other Folklore" (2008) [archive.is/LeWe8]
More from (borderlandsciences.org):
- Round Robin: Journal of Borderland Research [archive.is/7Trhj]
- Borderland Research Project [archive.is/kH6tZ]
Tesla Memorial Society of New York Website [teslasociety.com/tesladay.htm]
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