Noumenal News

Phoenix, Arizona was all abuzz on Tuesday night
when an array of lights appeared in the night sky southwest of the
city.  Telephone switchboards rang and e-mails flowed and many believed
that the legendary ‘Phoenix lights’ had returned.  In the first event,
nearly ten years ago, nine bright orbs were spotted and filmed on March
13, 1997.
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Chaos is an inherent unpredictability in the behavior of a natural system or in the course of human events.

Discordianism
is a belief system based on chaos. Some people believe it’s a joke
disguised as a religion, and others believe it’s a religion disguised
as a joke. The true believers claim it’s a religion disguised as […]

When they were putting together their news release for this week’s
Interfaith Week, members of the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable kept
coming up with the same typo. Instead of “call for prayer,” which is
the focus of this year’s event, “we kept typing ‘call for peace,’” says
Roundtable chairwoman Elaine Emmi.
      “Look at the mistake we made […]

The beautiful and deeply religious Madame de Tourvel is so distraught
after cheating on her husband in the 1782 novel “Les Liaisons
Dangereuses” that she blacks out the betrayal altogether, arriving at a
convent with no idea of what had brought her there. Soon the horror of
the infidelity rushes back, in all its incriminating force.
More than two centuries […]

The old natural religions continue to thrive in Africa. While
Christianity and Islam vie for supremacy in many countries, they have
failed to banish the rain gods and spirits south of the Sahara.
Frequently the pagan rites have fused with a faith in Jesus Christ.
Six men in flowing white robes stride across the square in Maryal Bai.
One village […]

DNA tests carried out on two British men have shed
light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson,
America’s third president.

In the 1990s, DNA was taken from male relatives of Jefferson to see if he fathered a son with one of his slaves.

They found the president had a rare genetic signature
found mainly in the Middle […]

Lunar colonists could be in for a
nasty shock — literally. A team of US scientists has found that the
Moon’s surface can become charged with up to several thousand volts of
static electricity.This
charging could release sparks that disable electronic equipment —
including monitors, space buggies or even the front door of a Moon
base. And it could cause dust […]

LONDON, England (Reuters) — Nearly 150 years ago it was no
more than a concept by a visionary scientist, but researchers have now
created a minuscule motor that could lead to the creation of
microscopic nanomachines.
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell
first imagined an atom-size device dubbed Maxwell’s Demon in 1867.
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have made it a […]