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  1. Min Bannister

    Man Finds 8,000 Year Old Dolphin Bones In Garden

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66361506 What an amazing story! He was digging a pool for his children when he struck a bone. More details at the link.
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    Citizen Science Volunteers Wanted For Shark Watching

    This is a project logging the marine life off the coast of Wales, with particular interest in sharks, skates and rays https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64042449 Here is the website for SIARC https://www.projectsiarc.com/ There is an opportunity to get involved by viewing clips from the...
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    World's Largest Freshwater Fish Caught in Mekong River

    The world's largest freshwater fish has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia and no, it is not a catfish but a gigantic stingray. Do go and look at the photo at the link to see this amazing creature. :D https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61862169 You will be relieved to hear that...
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    Dragon Of Death Discovered In Argentina

    Yes! Okay, it is the fossil of a very extinct flying reptile that has been named that by its discoverers. :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61568468 More at the link including some pictures of what it would have looked like. They actually discovered a pair of these reptiles...
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    Onion Futures In The USA

    Have you ever thought about what a great idea it would be to trade in onion futures in the USA? Well who hasn't? Unfortunately it is illegal, and here is a brief summary of why. In 1955, two Chicago onion traders Sam Siegal and Vincent Kosuga bought so many onions and onion futures (an...
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    Huge Ichthyosaur Fossil Discovered At Rutland Reservoir

    This is amazing! A man was doing landscaping work at Rutland reservoir when he noticed a huge 200 million year old marine reptile skeleton sticking out of the mud. As you do. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59915689
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    Davemaoite-Mineral From The Earth's Lower Mantle

    A mineral has been discovered in a diamond which has come from the Earth's lower mantle. Normally such minerals don't survive as they need extreme pressure to hold their form but this one has survived as it is encased within a diamond. It is thought to have been formed somewhere between 660 and...
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    250 Words For Slater

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53308981 Fascinating study that has found over 250 words for a small multi-legged crustacean in the UK. Most of the words come from England and it is thought this might be because they have a form that rolls into a ball when...
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    Wuthering Heights - The Book

    I have just read this and would like some talking therapy to help rehabilitate. I believe @Frideswide is a fan? Anyone else? After finishing I went to find out more about Emily Bronte and discovered that she had been drinking water that had filtered through the cemetery. :eek: It would explain...
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    Horse Costumes Of South Ronaldsay

    I have never heard of this before. Every year South Ronaldsay has a ploughing competition for boys using miniature plough. The girls dress up as Clydesdale horses! It's amazing. Do look at the photos. I love the little frills round the wrists and ankles like the real horses have...
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    Fish Smell Syndrome (Trimethylaminuria)

    I have never heard of this before. This unfortunate lady lacks an enzyme which breaks down trimethylamine in her gut causing her to smell of rotten fish! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-51006604 Here is a more in-depth discussion of the condition...
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    Sologamy (Marrying Oneself; Self-Marriage)

    Apparently more and more people are getting married to themselves. Yes cake, flowers, guests, everything. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42415394 They are spending thousands of pounds on it. Some of them are already married. Seems terribly sad to me. I would be horrified if someone...
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    Christmas Wreaths

    What are peoples views on hanging a wreath on the front door at Christmas? I shudder when I see this as wreaths are for dead people. But I read recently that hanging a wreath on your door invites good luck into your house. No, it definitely invites death! It would be interesting to see the...
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    Tarot Experiment Anyone?

    Does anyone fancy trying a Tarot card reading experiment? Just for fun. I propose getting few people interested, drawing a single Tarot spread completely at random and publishing the results here to look at the basis of cold reading. Obviously real cold reading requires real-time feedback but I...
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    The Narcissism Thread

    You're so vain, you probably think this thread is about you.. There has been some discussion on other threads about narcissism and its increase in recent years and I find it a very interesting topic and well worth its own thread. Note that very few people actually have a narcissistic...
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    The Third Man

    This phenomena is often related to guardian angels but I think it deserves its own thread. It is the feeling sometimes experienced by people who are undergoing some severe physical and mental exertion that another, mysterious person is with you. The name comes from a poem by T.S. Eliot The...
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    Gas Bubbles Sinking Ships

    I thought we had a thread on this but I couldn't find one. A bizarre report of an explosion under a floating restraunt in Leith in yesterdays Edinburgh Evening News The smell of sulhpur made me wonder if it was one of those gas explosion thingies thought to be resposible for many mystery...
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    Cryptic Cat Identification

    I wonder if anyone can identify this cat? When I was a kid I had a book of Fabulous Beasts which contained all kinds of things I have since come across many times (Roc, Pheonix, Chimera etc) except one. It was a gigantic cat with a beautifully patterned coat which lived in forests (can't...
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    Tugs Of Love

    I don't believe there is a thread on this so I thought I'd start one on the back of this bizarre case from Edinburgh at the weekend. Edinburgh Evening News (needs registration) The weirdest thing about this is that the father let the fact that he was "stuck in traffic" stop him going after...
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    Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    I don't know if there is another thread this would fit in to, I haven't heard of this disorder before. From the BBC
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    Haunted Waterways

    Interesting article on canal hauntings here. Quite old but I can't find it elsewhere on here.
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    Chicken Fined For Crossing Road

    Well okay they let it off in the end but the fact it was charged in the first place is pretty amusing! BBC
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    Deadly Donors: Diseases Spread Via Tissue / Organ Transplant

    Death by Hamster And they look so cute.. Pretty tragic story here from the BBC :(
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    Tomb Raider Game

    The new Tomb Raider game promises to be much better than the unbelievably rubbish Angel of Darkness apparently, which wouldn't TBH be too difficult. I only played it through because I thought I would get to fight a Nephilim at the end and I'm terrified of Nephilim. But no, no Nephilim. :hmph...
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    Shockingly Close To Charles Fort

    Nice little history of Charles Fort and Fortean Times that I had forgotten about in January's edition of Saucer Smear I expect there must be old issues of "Doubt" still surviving. Anyone here care to own up? :)
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    Seth

    I have always wondered about Seth (or Set). As far as I know, he is the only god who also appears to be a fantastic animal. Seemingly the ancient Egyptians were keen on fantastic animals as this link shows http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/beasts.htm Fantastic animals were apparently...
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    People Witnessed Spontaneously Vanishing

    There have been a few stories of people being seen in a field, falling over and vanishing before they hit the ground haven't there? Scarey.:eek: They're meant to have been taken by the fairies I think.
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    The Dead Sea

    Apparently you can't burn at the Dead Sea becasue it is a few hundred feet below sea level. Something filters out the harmful rays.
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