Noumenal News

One of my earliest memories is watching a Sunday morning religious show when I was about four years old. When they talked about people dying and going to heaven, I remember clearly thinking, ?That?s stupid, everyone know when you die you come back as another person.? Learning that neither my parents, relatives or Hebrew school […]

In 1918, long before George Jetson commuted to Spacely Space Sprockets, the U.S. Patent Office issued Felix Longobardi the first patent for a vehicle capable of both driving on roads and flying through the air. But given all the impractical prototypes built since Longobardi’s original whimsy, history suggests that any vehicle design combining these two […]

The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the finished array will have 350 six-metre antennas and will be one of the world’s largest.
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) will be able to sweep more than one million star systems for radio signals generated […]

Pointed hats, boiling cauldrons, high-pitched cackles, flying around the open sky on a broom. These are what most people envision when they think of witches, especially during the Halloween season.Paganism is a broad term that encompasses many systems of belief. There is no one way to define it because each person follows their own set […]

IS IT distressing to experience consciousness slipping away or something people can accept with equanimity? Are there any surprises in store as our existence draws to a close? These are questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries, and chances are you’ve pondered them too occasionally.
None of us can know the answers for sure […]