Noumenal News

Very few people have heard of Max, Nebraska.
A cursory look at the Google Map of the town shows just how small it is - under 20 blocks, a blip in southwest Nebraska. It’s just eight miles from the seat of Dundy County: Benkelman, population 914.
But Max, the blip it may be, is the closest town […]

Creatures that have abstained from sex for up to 100 million years are giving evolutionary scientists a headache.
Sex is not just important for reproduction - it helps
scramble genes much more quickly than random DNA mutations and helps
new species to evolve and emerge as the environment changes.
But there here is one ugly fact in the way […]

A British vampire story
written as a “lark” by William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize-winning author
of “The Sound and the Fury,” is to be turned into a 40-million-pound
Hollywood movie.

The
cameras will roll later this year on “Dreadful Hollow,” about an evil
eastern European countess who preys on a young visitor to her mansion
in Victorian England.
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A woman who was sacked from her job as a teaching assistant claimed today that she was given the boot because she is a witch.
Sommer De La Rosa, 35, told an employment tribunal that she had been
unfairly dismissed from her job after school chiefs raised fears that
she would indoctrinate students with her pagan religion.
The white […]

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Cherokee Nation vote to
revoke the citizenship of the descendants of people the Cherokee once
owned as slaves was a blow to people who have relied on tribal
benefits.
Charlene White,
a descendant of freed Cherokee slaves who were adopted into the tribe
in 1866 under a treaty with the U.S. government, wondered Sunday where
she would now […]