Noumenal News

IT’S the sort of sight you would expect to see in an episode of Doctor Who - a strange black object with a light coming from it floating silently in the twilight sky. But this is exactly what council worker Stewart Davis witnessed while on his rounds closing parks and cemeteries on Friday night. The […]

Americans United for Separation of Church and State today commended President George W. Bush for his apology to a Wiccan war widow who was excluded from a private meeting with veterans and their deceased family members in Nevada earlier this week.
Roberta Stewart, whose husband Sgt. Patrick Stewart was killed in combat in Afghanistan, was not […]

FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) - President Bush called a Fernley military widow on Thursday and apologized for her not being invited to a private meeting earlier this week in Reno, when he met briefly with the families of fallen Nevada soldiers.
The president’s phone call to Roberta Stewart came a day after White House and military officials […]

Archaeologists working in Syria have unearthed the remains of dozens of youths thought to have been killed in a fierce confrontation 6,000 years ago.
According to Science magazine, the celebrating victors may even have feasted on beef in the aftermath.
The findings come from northeastern Syria, near Tell Brak, one of the world’s oldest known cities.
Tell Brak […]

A study into the mysterious changing skull shape of medieval man casts serious doubt on current theories.
The peculiar shift from long narrow heads to those of a rounder shape, and back again, which took place between the 11th and 13th centuries, has been noted at sites throughout western Europe. But a study of skulls found […]

When President Bush took time Tuesday to meet family members of some of the fallen soldiers from Northern Nevada, a woman whose husband made the ultimate sacrifice was notably absent.
Roberta Stewart of Fernley, who lost her husband, Sgt. Patrick Stewart, when the helicopter he was in was shot down in Afghanistan in September 2005, said […]

Ancient orchid pollen found attached to a bee trapped in amber suggests the “supermodels of the plant world” were blooming at the time of the dinosaurs. The discovery indicates that orchids arose between 76 and 84 million years ago, making them far older than experts had previously thought.
Experts used the fossil pollen grains to […]

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A researcher investigating underwater rock formations off the coast of Japan believes they are the remnants of an Asian equivalent of Atlantis — an ancient civilization swallowed up by the ocean.
Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura says he has identified the ruins of a city off the coast of Yonaguni Island on the […]

Scientists studying ancient organisms locked in permafrost from Canada, Siberia and Antarctica say they have found evidence of living microbes more than half a million years old.
“Never before have traces of still living organisms that old been found,” says the international team that describes its “exceptional discovery” in a study published Monday by the Proceedings […]

A total lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning was a “special event” for Nanaimo’s Wiccan community.
Daniel Van Koughnett, a minister in the city’s Temple of the Green Cauldron, said eclipses are not routine cosmic occurrences like full moons and solar solstices, events regularly celebrated at communal temple festivities.
He said for many Wiccans, eclipses, like last night’s […]