Author Archives: Stan Flouride

An Egyptian Handbook of Ritual Power has been deciphered revealing a series of invocations and spells. It includes love spells, exorcisms and a cure for black jaundice (a potentially fatal infection). Written in Coptic, the 20 page illustrated codex dates back around 1,300 years. Photo … Continue reading →

A small asteroid disintegrates in Earth’s atmosphere about every other week, and the distribution around the world appears to be random. That is the main message of a map released in November 2014 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) observation program. The new … Continue reading →

Since most of us don’t have access to the videos the NSA drones film of our every move, how about a quadcopter that makes your own?  It straps to your wrist takes off with a flick of your arm: Flies … Continue reading →

Meet Oscar, a cat with a supernatural ability to feel when people are about to die. In over 50 documented cases, Oscar, who lives in a nursing home , has curled up beside patients in their final hours, seeing them through to … Continue reading →

It is a 1961 documentary called “Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me” that was created by the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers) that shows how they brokered peace between the many ‘jacket clubs’ (as the gangs in San Francisco were … Continue reading →

The new research by specialists at St George’s, University of London, studied the treatment of brain cancer tumours in the laboratory and discovered that the most effective treatment was to combine active chemical components of the cannabis plant with radiation. … Continue reading →

It was the staggering amount of footwear in the caves that captured the attention of archaeologists, past and present. With soles made from a single piece of bison leather, lined with fur, and sewn together at the heel, the moccasins … Continue reading →