M.J. Rose

Have you ever wondered if we are someone else’s dream? And if so, whose dream are we? Ancient religions have posed these questions for thousands of years, and science may finally be catching up…

Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation

By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News

“Could this be a computer simulation? (Space.com)

Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?

Some physicists and university researchers say it’s possible to test the theory that our entire universe exists inside a computer simulation, like in the 1999 film “The Matrix.”

In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, “The Simulation Argument,” which argued that, “we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.” Now, a team at Cornell University says it has come up with a viable method for testing whether we’re all just a series of numbers in some ancient civilization’s computer game…”

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How on earth do ancient Egyptian mummies test positive for cocaine and tobacco when those plants were not found in Africa for thousands of years after the mummies were embalmed?

Find out here:

The Mystery Of The Cocaine Mummy

I have a bet going with some friends that verifiable evidence of Bigfoot will be discovered in the next fews years. It turns out I am not alone in my insanity – there is a “long bet” going here between Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand on this very matter.

In this vein, the news has just offered something quite unexpected, a true “living fossil”:

Found: Whale Thought Extinct for 2 Million Years

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com –

The pygmy whale, a mysterious cetacean …

The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests.

The findings, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.

“The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil,” said Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. “It’s the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around.”

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