Noumenal News

(CBS) New Jersey Linda Kay, the exotic dancer charged with improperly disposing a human hand police say she kept in jar inside her South Plainfield home, was a no-show in court today.
So the judge revoked her hundred thousand dollar bail.
“We’ll actively look for her and she’ll be placed under arrest,” said John Ferraro, the […]

Beneath the veneer of modern Indonesia, ancient beliefs are strong. Some Indonesians blame the recent string of natural disasters in the country on a host of supernatural influences. A recent survey suggests many are beginning to see the country’s leadership, particularly its president, as out of tune with the forces of nature, and therefore, a […]

KUANTAN, July 25 (Bernama) — Spices all this while added flavour to our gourmet but a local researcher on alternative medicine has discovered a concoction of spices, pulses and cereal that can be used to treat drug addicts.
Prof Dr Ananthan Krishnan said the consistent use of the concoction could overcome addiction to drugs.
The pharmacist who […]

Raw emotion flowed during the support-group meetings, but for Wendy Ellis, it was healing.
“I felt very validated,” says Ellis of Scottsdale, who has attended meetings of the infertility support group Resolve for two years. “I thought, ‘That’s how I feel! I’m not the only one who cries when I get a birth announcement.’ ”
Support groups […]

NEW YORK: A new documentary reveals the US was so eager to show its one-upmanship over Russians during the Cold War that it launched the mission to Moon without much scientific precision or the required precautions.
The mission came to be launched in hope rather than in expectation. The […]

MUNICH, Germany, July 25 (UPI) — The European Space Agency says its XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has shown the prevailing theory of how pulsars generate their X-rays needs revising.
Scientists say the energy needed to generate the million-degree polar hotspots seen on cooling neutron stars might come predominantly from inside the pulsar, not from outside.
Pulsars — discovered […]

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.
The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish […]

Three men have been cleared of trying to procure the raw ingredients for a “dirty bomb” which the prosecution claimed could have devastated a British city if it fell into the hands of terrorists. But mystery surrounds the material at the centre of the plot. So what exactly is red mercury?
The most bizarre aspect of […]

Google Earth, the satellite imaging site that brought us hovering cars, is now the source of a mysterious new find - this time an unusual man-made landscape in a remote part of China.
The Chinese site based in the very remote Huangyangtan region, appears to be a small-scale model of a piece of territory complete with […]

In the documentary “Apollo 11: The Untold Story,” shown on Britain’s Channel Five on Monday night, July 24, astronaut Buzz Aldrin says he, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins all saw a UFO shadowing their spacecraft. Apollo 11, which took off on July 16, 1969, was the first manned mission to […]