M.J. Rose

Ram Bahadur Bomjon, also known as “Buddha Boy” began his mysterious meditation without food and water on 16 May 2005.

Was it a hoax? Does the boy have divine powers? Is he the Buddha? How can this be explained?

Rejoice! A long lost stash of very old fairytales has been found. 500 of them!

Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany

by Victoria Sussens-Messerer (The Guardian)

Collection of fairytales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth had been locked away in an archive in Regensburg for over 150 years

Spinning a yarn … King Golden Hair, one of the newly-discovered fairytales. Illustration: Barbara Stefan

“A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales, gathered by the local historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (1810–1886) in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz at about the same time as the Grimm brothers were collecting the fairytales that have since charmed adults and children around the world…”

Read one of the fairytales: The Turnip Princess

For the complete story click here. For more fairytale interest, click here for Shockheaded Peter (Der Struwwelpeter).

Quantum mechanics (the very small) and general relativity (the very large and the very fast) are the two grand theories that science uses to explain the universe – however, these two theories are totally incompatible with each other. What does this mean? Certainly it implies that nature is smarter than we are, and also, that our theories to date are only mere sketches of what we need to truly understand reality…

Is the fact that our theories contradict each other proof that there is a god, or that science is wrong? What do you think?