Noumenal News

Muggles and witches alike were waiting for the news
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling announced today at her website that the seventh — and presumably final — installment in the phenomenally successful series of books will hit stores on July 21.
It’s titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
So far, by the way, the series […]

SPOOKED Amanda West froze
with terror after hearing ghostly gallopings over the River Calder
while out for an evening stroll with her dog.

Bess
the Bedlington Terrier went into a barking frenzy as the mysterious
sound of horses hooves could be heard as the pair crossed the river at
Denby Dale Road.
Amanda said: It was a very frightening feeling as the […]

Early humans could never have come into contact with the giant carnivorous “terror bird” Titanis walleri, research suggests.

It had been thought the fearsome beasts became extinct
as little as 10,000 years ago - a time when humans shared their North
American habitat.

But a US team has now revised this date to about two million years earlier.

The study, […]

ITS gaze had a “wistfulness bred of hunger, as cruel as its own fangs, as merciless as the frost itself”.
Even a writer like Jack London - so enamoured with the wolf that he
nicknamed himself after it - had a keen appreciation of the age-old
fear that mankind has had of this supreme hunter.

When
they were […]

(SALEM) - Oregon’s capitol city is home base for a new paranormal
research operation, and the group is already conducting investigations
of potentially haunted locations in the Salem area.
Chris
Califf, President of Salem Paranormal, says their team investigated
areas of the Oregon State Fairgrounds on Saturday, January 13th, “SPI
toured several of the facilities on the grounds where reports of
murders […]

The lavender and tea tree oils found in some soaps, shampoos, hair gels
and body lotions can produce enlarged breasts in boys, researchers
report.
These plant oils were linked to abnormal breast
development in three boys, which was reversed when they stopped using
them, write Dr Clifford Bloch of Pediatric Endocrine Associates in
Colorado, and colleagues.
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It was high noon when Doreta Peppa, a woman with long, dark locks and
owlish eyes, entered the Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus. At first, tourists
visiting the Athenian temple thought they had stumbled on to a film
set. It wasn’t just that Peppa cut a dramatic figure with her flowing
robes and garlanded hair. Or that she seemed to […]

Truth may or may not be stranger than fiction. But one thing’s for sure: Truth is seldom as alluring as myth.
Witness the myths that have swirled for centuries around England’s
Stonehenge, one of the world’s most famous and mysterious prehistoric
sites. Why was this circle of towering stones erected? Years of debate,
scholarly and other otherwise, have spawned […]

On a typical day, Norberto Castro pushed his snow-cone cart the
six blocks from Melrose Avenue to Beverly Boulevard, a familiar face to
the throngs of children in this dense Hollywood neighborhood. On a hot
day, the 43-year-old Mexican immigrant could pull in upward of $300.
It
was a job he was suited for. A salesman back in Mexico’s Guerrero
state, […]

Giant mirrors in space that deflect the sun’s heat, carbon ’scrubbers’ that
clean up the atmosphere - where governments have failed to tackle global
warming, science could yet save the day, says Steve Connor

Scientists are thinking the unthinkable. What can be done to save the planet
from global […]