http://delicious.com/wunderk bookmarks posted by wunderk 2009-07-15T02:35:43Z http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Boy-13-39beaten-up-by.5446561.jp wunderk A PRIEST has been called in by a distraught mum after her teenage son told her he had been attacked by a ghost in the family home. Terrified mum Beverley Wilkins turned to the church after son Daniel was left bruised and bewildered by what his family say could only have been a ghost or poltergeist. poltergeists ghosts britain weird tweet 2009-07-15T02:22:41Z http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/07/transgender-mummy-discovered.html wunderk Not even a month after 4 brave mummies left the Brooklyn Museum to have themselves scanned, and 'Lady Hor' proved to be a male mummy - "scrotum and penis pretty well preserved", another round of mummy CSI uncovered yet another case of 'transgender' behaviour amongst mummies. mummies mystery west_midlands britain egypt gender forensics x-ray 2009-07-15T02:18:10Z http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/unholy-grail-nazi-chalice-revealed-in-fraud-case-1744667.html wunderk A fraudster who conned a friend blamed his crime today on an Indiana Jones-style curse linked to a stolen Nazi chalice. nazis curses crime britain tweet 2009-07-15T01:11:52Z http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2590315/Arson-fear-as-gnome-factory-burns-down wunderk An Octogenarian's prized home-made collection of garden gnomes and miniature figurines has gone up in smoke. Police believe arsonists were responsible for a fire that gutted a factory in Titoki St, Otaki, where Arthur Ray, 80, has made gnomes and other garden ornaments for the past 10 years. gnomes fire new_zealand 2009-07-15T00:58:30Z http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/07/13/how-bush-and-cheney-revived-the-cias-murder-inc.htm wunderk The CIA, as Tim Weiner documents brilliantly in Legacy of Ashes, his recent history of the agency, has always been better at recycling old, and usually bad, habits than at innovating its way to more effective operations. Those secret prisons, or "black sites," we heard about during the Bush years weren't new after all but a retread of an experiment the CIA had conducted in the early 1950s ("Project Artichoke") to develop interrogation and mind-control methods while using human guinea pigs. Torture was the collateral necessity. Assassinations? Ditto. It wasn't until President Ford signed an explicit order banning targeted assassinations that the practice, until then abused and dissimulated from Congress, ended, at least officially. The Bush administration revived all those old habits--the secret prisons, the "enhanced" interrogations, the torture. cia murders politics history america assassins 2009-07-15T00:48:49Z http://www.thehour.com/story/472165 wunderk Before she was even born in 1970 at Norwalk Hospital, Jayanti Tamm was declared the chosen disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian guru living in Queens, N.Y., who proclaimed he was the last avatar. For 25 years, Tamm served as Chinmoy's "Chosen One," until after years of trying to leave, she was banned from the cult. cults books religion connecticut new_york america 2009-07-15T00:45:16Z http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-woman-killed-voodoo-ritual,0,3237053.story wunderk Authorities are trying to figure out how an Arkansas woman died in a voodoo cleansing ritual that took place at a southern New Jersey townhouse over the weekend. According to a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, the death of Lucille Hamilton, 21, of Little Rock, a biological male who lived as a transgender woman, has not been deemed as suspicious and no charges have been filed. voodoo death new_jersey religion tweet 2009-07-14T23:02:11Z http://tozocomic.com/ wunderk webcomics retro science_fiction steampunk comics 2009-07-14T00:43:40Z http://www.newsweek.com/id/205560 wunderk But could some alleged plagiarists—like Maureen Dowd, Chris Anderson, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and even Viswanathan, who all either deny the charge, or blame their copying on unconscious mistakes—be guilty of psychological sloppiness rather than fraud? Could the real offense be disregard for the mind's subliminal kleptomania? And if it is real, is unconscious copying (or "cryptomnesia" to those who study the phenomenon) preventable? Or, seeing as Nietzsche ripped off a passage of Thus Spoke Zarathustra from something he'd read as a child, and former Beatle George Harrison was found guilty, in court, of unconsciously copying the music for his hit song, "My Sweet Lord"—is cryptomnesia both unavoidable, and the perfect excuse? plagiarism neuroscience psychology brain writing ethics memory 2009-07-14T00:40:50Z http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887.html wunderk Steve Jobs has never been shy about his use of psychedelics, famously calling his LSD experience "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." So, toward the end of his life, LSD inventor Albert Hofmann decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he'd be interested in putting some money where the tip of his tongue had been. Hofmann penned a never-before-disclosed letter in 2007 to Jobs at the behest of his friend Rick Doblin, who runs an organization dedicated to studying the medical and psychiatric benefits of psychedelic drugs. Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, died in April 2008 at the age of 102. See the letter here. lsd history psychedelic drugs computing psychology politics technology creativity 2009-07-14T00:37:41Z http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.500-winning-the-ultimate-battle-how-humans-could-end-war.html wunderk Just a few decades ago, many scholars believed that prior to civilisation, humans were "noble savages" living in harmony with each other and with nature. Not any more. Ethnographic studies, together with some archaeological evidence, suggest that tribal societies engaged in lethal group conflict, at least occasionally, long before the emergence of states with professional armies (see our timeline of weapons technology). Meanwhile, the discovery that male chimpanzees from one troop sometimes beat to death those from another has encouraged popular perceptions that warfare is part of our biological heritage. war psychology anthropology military history archaeology violence 2009-07-14T00:34:26Z http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/health/07mind.html?_r=3 wunderk The exploration of perverse urges has a rich history (how could it not?), running through the stories of Poe and the Marquis de Sade to Freud’s repressed desires and Darwin’s observation that many actions are performed “in direct opposition to our conscious will.” In the past decade, social psychologists have documented how common such contrary urges are — and when they are most likely to alter people’s behavior. At a fundamental level, functioning socially means mastering one’s impulses. The adult brain expends at least as much energy on inhibition as on action, some studies suggest, and mental health relies on abiding strategies to ignore or suppress deeply disturbing thoughts — of one’s own inevitable death, for example. These strategies are general, subconscious or semiconscious psychological programs that usually run on automatic pilot. psychology aberrant 2009-07-14T00:23:16Z http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/113232 wunderk “The British government were anxious to get rid of the Duke of Windsor, first and foremost because of his fondness for Nazi ideology,” the 227-page report concludes. “The Duchess’s political views are deemed so obnoxious to the British government that they refused to permit Edward to marry her and maintain the throne.” nazis royalty britain history germany america politics 2009-07-14T00:20:28Z http://www.komonews.com/news/50504197.html wunderk Comstock was cremated, and Courtney got some of the ashes. "In this tattoo, there's the ashes of David Comstock," said Courtney. With the permission of Comstock's children, tattoo artist Buddy Green mixed just a little of the ashes into the black. He said he's honored to be doing this for two old friends. cremation tattoos washington america 2009-07-14T00:10:49Z http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2528238/Woman-saved-by-lightning-strike.html wunderk A woman suffering from a deadly heart condition got two shocks when she was struck by lightning - after it cured her illness. lightning_strikes medical health weird serbia tweet