Noumenal News

Normally it’s students, not teachers, who get in trouble for inappropriate content on their MySpace pages, but I suppose there’s a first time for everything. British newspapers are reporting that Samantha Goldstone, a drama and English teacher at St Christopher’s Church of England High in Lancashire, has been banished from school after it was discovered […]

HADLEY, Mass. — A woman charged with burning down a Belchertown home that also served as a pagan church is ordered held without bail.
A judge in Eastern Hampshire District Court Monday determined that
defendant Evan Walgren should be held without bail because she violated
the conditions of her release on Feb. 1 that barred her from […]

02/14/2007 - At first, the Rev. Kendra Vaughan Hovey did not believe the messages she found waiting for her in her e-mail inbox.
“I
was skeptical at first. At the end of each e-mail was contact
information. So instead of e-mailing back, I called and it was legit,”
Hovey, of Summer Street, said last week.
Last fall, the leader
of the […]

IT is difficult to imagine them as anything other than cuddly family pets.
But hundreds of years ago, cats were seen as mystical creatures, associated with evil spirits.

So
the discovery of a mummified cat - believed to be almost 180 years old
- in a New Town basement is being put down not to a case […]

Collisions between comets may be kicking up copious amounts of dust observed around a dead star.

This has surprised astronomers, because when the star
died and expelled its outer layers, the dust in this system should have
been blown away.

A favoured explanation is that the dust is being freshly
churned up by comets smashing into each other in the […]

Chimpanzees in West Africa used stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago.

The discovery represents the oldest evidence of tool use by our closest evolutionary relative.

The skill could have been inherited from a common
ancestor of chimps and humans, the authors say, or learnt from humans
by imitation.

Alternatively, humans and chimps may have developed tool
use independently, the […]

Whales possess a form of communication that allows them to signal
other whales hundreds of miles away. Some experts say it is indeed a
form of telepathy. Does human telepathy exist? Is there scientific
evidence for this particular form of extra-sensory perception (ESP)?
Certainly if human telepathy existed we could explain many weird
human experiences. Telepathy would account for, according […]

In a region that has held its fair share of politically charged antiwar
protests in the past few years, 15 people representing a Pagan group
huddled on the Cambridge Common on Friday night to promote peace in
what they called an apolitical, agenda-free event.
Local
members of the Pagan group Earth Spirit sang chants about peace, aiming
to create an […]

MAPLEWOOD, New Jersey (AP) — The last thing Lorraine
Grossman expected to see as she gazed out the kitchen window of her
daughter’s home was a 211-pound bear.
“I was making a pot of
coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at
me,” said Grossman. “For a minute I didn’t realize there was a […]

ALDARO, Italy (Feb. 12) - Italy won’t split up its Stone Age “lovers.”
In a Valentine’s Day gift to the country, scientists said they are
determined to remove and preserve together the remains of a couple
buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each
other in an enduring embrace.
Instead of removing the bones
one-by-one for reassembly […]