http://bigthink.com/blogs/esoterica <p>Esoterica looks at the fascinating, strange, and curious world around us. The author, Chris Cunnyngham, has had a life-long fascination with the weird and arcane but appears quite normal in public.</p> Sun, 19 May 2013 01:42:19 -0000 Copyright Big Think. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/blogs/esoterica/~3/nm5k4iWcIRk/looking-for-denvers-heart-of-gold-nil-panning-on-the-south-platte http://bigthink.com/ideas/looking-for-denvers-heart-of-gold-nil-panning-on-the-south-platte Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:00:00 -0400
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Read More]]> Chris Cunnyngham http://bigthink.com/ideas/is-christine-odonnell-secretly-for-gay-marriage http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/blogs/esoterica/~3/kW1YcfAoByg/could-ufo-on-the-ocean-floor-really-be-the-lost-kingdom-of-kvenland http://bigthink.com/ideas/could-ufo-on-the-ocean-floor-really-be-the-lost-kingdom-of-kvenland Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:46:01 -0400 sonar scan showing an anomalous formation on the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland set off a storm of wild speculation as to what exactly the image means. Most of this speculation centered on the idea that this object (if it is an object or objects ...

Read More]]> Chris Cunnyngham http://bigthink.com/ideas/could-ufo-on-the-ocean-floor-really-be-the-lost-kingdom-of-kvenland http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/blogs/esoterica/~3/ayqo8CECSeg/is-3d-printing-technology-a-supervillains-best-friend-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-drone http://bigthink.com/ideas/is-3d-printing-technology-a-supervillains-best-friend-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-drone Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:03:59 -0400 University of Southampton built a drone aircraft from parts printed on a 3D laser printing machine. They entered each part's specifications and the machine printed out all the pieces by building up layers of plastic or metal until each part was complete. Then they took the parts ...

Read More]]> Chris Cunnyngham http://bigthink.com/ideas/is-3d-printing-technology-a-supervillains-best-friend-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-drone http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/blogs/esoterica/~3/hrbcADXuMiA/suspended-animation-nil-the-strange-science-of-captain-america http://bigthink.com/ideas/suspended-animation-nil-the-strange-science-of-captain-america Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:52:46 -0400 Avengers #4 (1964), writer (and now national treasure) Stan Lee used an old idea to explain his preservation - suspended animation. This explanation worked fine because, (1) it was a comic book, and (2) nobody ...

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