The last meteor shower of 2022 over southcentral Alaska has been caught on numerous home security cameras, illuminating the early morning winter solstice sky with a flash of fiery color. The meteor appeared at around 5:45 a.m. on Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, waking many Alaskans from their…
Doorbell Cameras Captured Some of the Best Videos of Meteor ‘Fireball’ That Lit Up the Alaskan Skies
8 Celestial Bodies Line Up to Form ‘Planetary Parade’—For the Second and Final Time in 2022
You could call it a cosmic encore. It so happens last June’s planetary alignment—which included eight planets in our solar system lining up—is seeing a repeat performance this December, leading into the new year. So, if circumstances prevented you from taking in the last “planet parade,” you’ll have a few days to catch this one…
Archaeologists Find Stone Tools, Carbon Dating at ‘America’s Stonehenge’ From 1,000-4,000 B.C.—So Who Built It?
Studying the origins of the aptly named Mystery Hill megaliths, also known as America’s Stonehenge, whets one’s curiosity but does not satisfy—unless one is satisfied by the excitement of confounding mystery alone. The site, in North Salem, New Hampshire, includes stone monoliths and chambers spread across 30 acres. The stones are said to have complex astronomical…
‘Free of Fear, Pain’: Engineer Recalls Leaving Her Body, Floating in Bliss, Learning Life’s Meaning on Returning
The following near-death-experience account by former Epoch Times journalist Dana Betlevy tells of how she discovered her life’s meaning after dying, floating to a blissful ethereal dimension, then returning to her body upon being resuscitated. She struggled to tell her story within her materialist milieu growing up in Eastern Europe. In my childhood and adolescence, I had…
Cartographers Used to Draw Strange, Enchanting Sea Animals on Medieval Maps—But What Do They Mean?
Depictions of sea serpents, mermaids, and other mythical creatures have long furnished world maps from the 10th century, through medieval times, to the Renaissance. Despite their fantastical and oftentimes enchanting appearances, most of these creatures are based on true encounters with sea animals, demonstrating how mythology and folklore are begotten from reality. Chet Van Duzer’s book…
Northern Lights Photographer of the Year 2022 Releases 25 Most Dazzling Auroras: From Alaskan Ice Caves and Beyond
Now in its fifth year, the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas, has released 25 of its best photos of aurora borealis from hundreds of dazzling entries. The winning images were taken from locations across the world, the winners representing 13 different nationalities, and were announced…
Russian Researcher Reveals Human Energy Fields—Auras—Related to Love, Positive, Negative Emotion, Health
Russian researcher Dr. Konstantin Korotkov has brought an old method of photographing “auras” into the 21st century. Although its roots trace back to the 17th century, Kirlian photography really took off in the 1940s. This method, developed by Russian inventor Semyon Kirlian, involves placing an object on a metal plate covered with photographic film. The…
Open-Minded Scientist Explores People’s Power to Remotely Influence Others With Their Mind Alone
Dr. Imants Barušs studies concepts often relegated as intangible or unscientific. One hears talk of human “energy fields,” the human consciousness affecting other people, and other such phenomena, but in exploring them one may ask: how much of it is imagined, and how much really exists? While Dr. Barušs, a psychology professor at King’s University College…
Nobel Prize Winner Proves You Have a ‘GPS’ in Your Brain—But Could It Help You Find Love? Your Lost Dog?
A Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded for the discovery of “an inner GPS in the brain,” but while we now know this faculty of the brain affects how we map our surroundings geographically, could it also guide us in other ways? Theories building on this discovery take us into the realm of intuition and…
Bids Open at £1 for 16th Century Servant’s Home That Was Once Called ‘Mutton Castle’
A charming, Grade II listed, 16th century cottage in Sutton Coldfield, England is being auctioned off, with bids opening at the ludicrously low price of just 1 pound sterling (approx. U.S. $1.22). High Heath Cottage, once known locally as “Mutton Castle,” is an idyllic, tall, and narrow abode surrounded by quintessential English farmland, around two miles from…
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