Noumenal News

Mathematicians have come up with a formula that predicts how the head on a pint of beer will change after pouring.
Their advance could shed light on why the foam on a pint of lager quickly disappears, but the froth on a pint of Guinness sticks around.
The research could not only provide tips for better brewing, […]

The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be wormholes leading to other universes, a new study says. If so, it would help resolve a quantum conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, but critics say it would also raise new problems, such as how the wormholes would form in the first place.
A […]

A mother is campaigning to have Paganism included on the curriculum in the UK’s schools.
Part-time student Fiona Edden, who has raised her three children as Pagans, has submitted an online petition on the Downing Street website which last night had been signed by 79 people.
Paganism - a recognised religion - is followed by about 40,000 […]

A chance discovery by archaeologists has brought to light a mosaic nearly 2,000 years old depicting what may have been a real-life version of the Roman combatant played by Russell Crowe in the film Gladiator.
The mosaic was found as Italian researchers carried out work on the spectacular Villa dei Quintili, south of Rome and home […]

BALTIMORE - Today, it sounds like a spring-break splurge on the order of “Girls Gone Wild”: Drink huge quantities of beer, get wasted, indulge in gratuitous sex and pass out — then wake up the next morning with the music blaring and your friends praying that everything will turn out all right.
But back in 1470 […]

Philadelphia’s fortune-tellers didn’t see it coming.
Suddenly they’re facing a very unhappy future.
Alerted to an obscure state law banning fortune-telling “for gain or lucre,” the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections is closing storefront psychics, astrologers, phrenologists and tarot-card readers who charge money for their services.
Inspectors had closed 16 shops since Tuesday, Deputy L&I Commissioner Dominic […]

Aurora — Will paranormal investigators continue to haunt a local historical house? If some city officials have their way, there’s not a ghost of a chance.
City Council’s Landmark Commission has deemed it “inappropriate” to use the century-old Harmon Home for a community-sponsored “Ghosthunting 101″ class or similar courses. The panel recommended last week that such […]

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK It’s the ultimate in one-stop shopping: a place to pick up advice, or get your aura cleansed, or find the right herbs to flush out both evil spirits and your colon.
The botanica, part shopping center and part cultural center, provides a haven for new immigrants finding their way in the nation’s largest […]

April 24, 2007 — MADISON, Wis. - The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced yesterday.
A deal between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the witchcraft-worshipping Wiccans adds the five-pointed star to the list of […]

A commercial airline pilot has reported seeing two unidentified flying objects in the sky near Guernsey.
The bright yellow flat disc shapes, estimated to be twice the size of a Boeing 737, were spotted on Monday, 12 to 15 miles north east of the island.
Captain Ray Bowyer was flying an Aurigny plane from Southampton to Alderney […]