The fea­ture film “2012: Time for Change” presents an opti­mistic alter­na­tive to apoc­a­lyp­ti­cal doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nom­i­nee Joao Amorim, the film fol­lows jour­nal­ist Daniel Pinch­beck, author of the best­selling 2012: The Return of Quet­zal­coatl, on a quest for a new par­a­digm that inte­grates the archaic wis­dom of tribal cul­tures with the sci­en­tific method. As con­scious agents […]

Syra­cuse, NY — The Bible con­tains few verses about the time Jesus and his fam­ily spent in Egypt—fleeing King Herod’s mur­der­ous vow to kill all baby boys, to the family’s weary jour­ney through the Sinai Desert and even­tual return to Pales­tine (Mat. 2:14). But what really hap­pened dur­ing Jesus’ five years in Egypt? Can evi­dence sep­a­rate fact from speculation?What sto­ries of […]

A mys­te­ri­ous halo-shaped cloud was seen hov­er­ing in the sky over the city of Moscow a few days ago. Lest you believe that this con­firms your var­i­ous con­spir­acy the­o­ries, mete­o­rol­o­gists have ruled out any super­nat­ural cause: A spokesman from the city’s weather fore­cast said: ‘Sev­eral fronts have been pass­ing through Moscow recently, there was an intru­sion of the Arc­tic air too, […]

Dae­mon Rowan­childe is an artist based in Fer­gus, Ontario, Canada. Best known for his tat­too art, Dae­mon also is an accom­plished painter, who incor­po­rates influ­ences of Mid­dle East­ern and Indian design, ancient Islamic archi­tec­ture and orna­ment into his paint­ings and tat­too designs. Dae­mon con­sid­ers Van Gogh, M.C. Escher, H.R. Giger and Alex Grey to be among his favourite artists. Daemon […]

Pitts­burgh police demon­strated the lat­est in crowd con­trol tech­niques on pro­test­ers when they used “sound can­nons” to blast the ears of cit­i­zens near the G-20 meet­ing of world eco­nomic lead­ers. City offi­cials said this was the first time such sound blasters, also known as “sound weapons,” were used pub­licly. Lavon­nie Bick­er­staff of the Pitts­burgh Bureau of Police uses benign language […]

Cymat­ics –noun the study of vis­i­ble sound and vibra­tion. Is there a con­nec­tion between sound, vibra­tions and phys­i­cal real­ity? Do sound and vibra­tions have the poten­tial to create?

A spec­tac­u­lar and extremely rare tex­tile, woven from golden-colored silk thread pro­duced by more than one mil­lion spi­ders in Mada­gas­car, goes on dis­play Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 23 in the Amer­i­can Museum of Nat­ural History’s Grand Gallery. This mag­nif­i­cent con­tem­po­rary tex­tile, mea­sur­ing 11 feet by 4 feet, took four years to make using a painstak­ing tech­nique devel­oped more than 100 years ago. The […]