Noumenal News

This is how it must be if you’re cruising up the Amazon.
All along the water’s edge strange faces stare out from the undergrowth, some friendly, some curious, some shy - and one a terrifying vision standing in a fire-ravaged spot with many limbs and tendrils, and an evil grin.
But there are no unearthly […]

If you can judge the living by the way they send off their dead, the ancient Egyptians were some serious party people. They assembled a veritable entourage and a rider of must-haves – from stylist to hair combs – to accompany the deceased to the afterlife.
And millennia after their final journey, the signatures of ancient […]

When Carol Copeland started renovating her World War II-era Stockton home a year ago, things started to happen that were unexplainable, she said.
At first, when she came home to find an empty shelf ripped out of her bedroom wall, she blamed it on faulty carpentry. When she heard the sound of footsteps and her name […]

At Memorial City Mall on the Katy Freeway, there is what some might consider a new take on the concept of fashion police.
“Two security guards approached me, and they told me I had to take off my shirt or flip it inside out or leave the mall,” said Gilbert Hill, who actually purchased the shirt […]

You can eulogize. You can mourn and ponder and do a lengthy retrospective, a political analysis, a sociocultural examination of a career and a legacy and a rather remarkable life. When remembering the dead, the journalistic options are legion.
But in the case of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, the grandfather of the fundamentalist religious right […]

In 1983, a teacher at a preschool in California, a school founded by his grandmother, was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 2-year-old boy. Although he was released through lack of evidence, more children came forward and accused Ray Buckey, his sister, his mother, his grandmother, three other teachers and a school administrator of […]

A new species of sea anemone has been found in the carcass of a whale that sunk to the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey, Calif., marking the first discovery of one of these filter-feeding marine animals living in a so-called whale fall.
Whale falls, the resting places of dead whales, provide temporary but important […]

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky: A Kentucky museum where Adam and Eve share exhibit space with dinosaurs is drawing criticism from groups of science educators as it nears completion.
The $27 million (€20 million) Creation Museum tells a Biblical version of the Earth’s history, asserting that the planet is just a few thousand years old and man and the […]

As well as having millions of readers the Harry Potter books also have their share of critics, some from a religious angle. Some fervent Christians have seen the books as dangerous because they deal with wizards, witches and magic. It would be good to point out to these critics that a serious ban on witchcraft […]

Rae Samuels has been a Pagan for 12 years and is now a minister in the Wiccan faith, one approach within what is called neo-paganism. She wishes members of other faiths would learn about and respect hers.
“Some people have an image of what Pagans are,” said Samuels. “Either they’re afraid or they think of a […]