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The Antonio Urzi UFO's: REAL or HOAX?


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Brian, 2024-06-15, 11:41 AM

The Antonio Urzi UFO's: REAL or HOAX? 

Over 1000 sightings by one man and no other witnesses?  The videos shown here look very impressive - until you find out how they are most likely done.  The simplicity of the technique will stun you unless you have come across it before.  Watch the video and

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Ball lighting - a mundane UFO explanation


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sbu, 2024-06-15, 11:10 AM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

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Ball lightning has been described as transparent, translucent, multicolored, evenly lit, radiating flames, filaments or sparks, with shapes that vary between spheres, ovals, tear-drops, rods, or disks.[12]
Ball lightning is often erroneou

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UFO's: It's Time For a Scientific Approach (1981)


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Sci, 2024-06-14, 09:59 PM

UFO's: It's Time For a Scientific Approach

by J. Allen Hynek
 
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The selective appearance of the UFO suggests deliberate staging, but on whose part? By whatever intelligence lies behind the UFO phenomenon or by an unconscious effort

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Iamblichus, Theurgy and The Body | Professor Gregory Shaw


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Sci, 2024-06-13, 05:54 PM



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Gregory Shaw, Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College, joins the show to discuss, theurgy, the work of Iamblichus, and how we have probably got the Neoplatonists’ attitude to the body quite wrong.

We discus

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Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere


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Sci, 2024-06-11, 12:18 AM

Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere

Kevin Dugan

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Junk science has been forcing a reckoning among scientific and medical researchers for the past year, leading to thousands of ret

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Aztec Religion Explained


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Sci, 2024-06-10, 06:37 PM


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[color=#131313]Bibliography:

David Carrasco, "Religions of Mesoamerica," 2nd edition, 2013.

David Carrasco, "The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction," 2011

Isabel Laack, "Aztec Religion and Art of Writing," 2019.

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Quantum biology's new frontier: Tryptophan networks and brain disease defense


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Sci, 2024-06-09, 04:01 PM

Quantum biology's new frontier: Tryptophan networks and brain disease defense

Howard University

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By quantum standards, biological systems are quite hostile

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Quantum Mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the Blind Piranha


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Sci, 2024-06-07, 09:31 PM

Quantum Mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the Blind Piranha

John Horgan

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Richard Feynman advised us to accept that nature makes no sense. “Do not keep saying to yourself… ‘But how can [nature] b

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Scientists' discover brain source of OBE's lol


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Bill37, 2024-06-07, 04:22 PM

Well, its been figured out everyone! OBE's explained!! 

[url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/have-scientists-found-the-source-of-out-of-body-experiences/ar-AA1egJcr?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=8f690aa92f5b49ca95882263c9eb886a&ei=73]Have Scientists Found the Source of Out-of-Body Experienc

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Multiverses and falsifiability


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Sci, 2024-06-06, 06:51 PM

Multiverses and falsifiability 

Feser

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...So, if multiverse theories really are not even weakly falsifiable, but altogether unfalsifiable, it looks like they will fall into the fourth and most

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