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Teleportation – Hurry Up!

Who doesn’t want teleportation? Imagine the convenience, not to mention the savings on gas and time? Teleportation is still a mystery when it comes to the ability to move anything larger than the invisible, but transporting anything at all is an exciting start!

 

 

Beam Me Up, Scotty: Scientists Transport a Hunk of Matter 18 Inches

Scientists in Copenhagen took one more step toward the Star Trek transporter, figuring out how to teleport groups of billions of atoms from one place to another using light, quantum mechanics, magnetism and a concept they call “entanglement.” Professor Eugene Polzik and his team managed to move an object about 18 inches, using an excruciatingly complicated process that amounts to some serious magic. Says the Prof:…

 

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Emily K. Editor on 04 Apr 2012 | Mysterious News &Science & Research &Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Ancient “Bed Burial” Enlightens Scholars

 

 

Archeologists discover seventh-century teenager buried in bed

(thespec.com)

 

 

LONDON Archeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a seventh-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse full of glass beads.

 

Experts say the grave is an example of an unusual Anglo-Saxon funerary practice of which very little is known. Just over a dozen of these “bed burials” have been found in Britain, and it’s one of only two in which a pectoral cross — meant to be worn over the chest — has been discovered.

 

One archeologist said the burial opened a window into the transitional period when the pagan Anglo-Saxons were gradually adopting Christianity, a few centuries after Romans introduced it to the native Britons.

 

“We are right at the brink of the coming of Christianity back to England,” said Alison Dickens, the manager of Cambridge University’s Archeological Unit. “What we have here is a very early adopter.”

 

The grave, dated between AD 650 and 680, was discovered about a year ago in a corner of Trumpington Meadows, a rural area just outside Cambridge that is slated for development.

 

Dickens said the teen’s grave was interesting because it had a mix of traditional grave goods…

 

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Emily K. Editor on 22 Mar 2012 | Ancient Wonders &Mysterious News &Religion & Spirituality &Science & Research | Comments (0)

Lost Fragrances Continued: M.J. Guest Blogs About ROGER & GALLET – VERA VIOLETTA…

The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent.

 

…And so, she is touring the blogosphere leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances.

 

Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts. Your senses will thank you!

 

On that note (pun intended), here’s an intro to M.J.’s Guest Post at Life in the Thumb on Roget et Gallet’s Vera Violetta…

 

(I don’t know about you but I think there is something particularly spectacular about the scent of violets. Have you ever tasted those violet flavored candies from Choward’s? They have been a favorite of mine since childhood. I wonder if M.J. likes them? They are one of those love them or hate them sort of items.)

 

 

Long-standing perfume and toiletries giants Roget et Gallet launched Vera Violette in 1892 at the height of La Belle Époque… it was also the first violet perfume to combine natural violet leaf oil and synthetic alpha and beta ionones. Vera Violetta was released as a parfum essence in highly concentrated form. Its pretty, saccharine opening of violets veil a deeper, huskier core. A swelling herbaceous accord swims beneath the surface…


For her complete post about Vera Violetta click here.

 

THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES comes out on March 13 from Atria Publishing! I’ve read the book and it’s beautiful and impossible to put down. You will be spellbound as I was.

 

More goodies:

 

Guest Post at Workaday Reads
Guest Post at Mrs. Q Book Addict
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Emily K. Editor on 21 Mar 2012 | Ancient Wonders &Guest Posts &Mysterious News &The Arts &The Library &The Reincarnationist Books &Uncategorized | Comments (0)

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