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Beringer's Lying Stones
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A rather amusing 18th Century Hoax that had some rather unfortunate consequences for all parties involved.
Link: Wikipedia on Beringer's Lying Stones
Link: The Geological Society
And you can read (well, I was just there for the illustrations) the original manuscript here: https://books.google.ca/books?id=3PhcAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Droll indeed, although I can see how wanting so badly to believe led to errors (and mischief) all round...
Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Druid
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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First Dickens I've probably read in almost 40 years.
I enjoyed it, probably his popularity threw me off. I was a trifle annoyed that of all the books of his I should choose to read it should end up being the one he died midway through writing, although the trajectory was fair enough that I could make a few sound guesses as to how he would have ended it. What I don't get, though, is what was to become of the abundance of secondary characters - Crisparkle, Honeythunder, Sapsea, etc.
In any event, the bookstores are full of this so in the months it takes for the Postal Strike to resolve itself I can tuck in with a bit of Dickens...certainly he's in the Xmas spirit.
The Telepathy Tapes
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Audio & Podcasts
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Painting, or doing my experiments, and it helps to take my mind off the job at hand. The radio, unreliable, and so I find YouTube podcasts/interviews/lectures, etc.
The first one, an interview with the "Smartest Man In The World", a different smartest man than the last one. And so I give it a listen and then when he begins his gushing admiration of Trump and talk about the new world order, Angels and Demons, Multidimensional Universe, etc, etc, well, I have to give it up and question seriously his credentials. I mean, there's only so much I can take in a sitting.
But I discover this - the telepathy tapes, which to summarize (I'm not quite done the first season) - argues that non-verbal & autistic children are naturally telepathically/psychically gifted...
Well, I'm not necessarily buying this either, but it does make you think. And after all, we do live in a world where anything can happen...
Patatap.com
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A fun little website that converts finger taps/keyboard strokes into sound and light. Like a pocket synthesizer. I'll let you play with it and figure it out...
Link: Patatap.com
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