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“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Odd news highlights this week - plus a few paranormal extras Miracle at Sacre-Coeur . Nun prays. Woman walks. BBC "Edited monologue by Abigail Brown."Other than the BBC link, I can find no additional details for this story.   Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel, features the old Albion State Normal School in Idaho. IdahoStateJournal. Filming in July, done in secret to prevent the locals from interrupting the shoot. Interviews include a former campus caretaker. Yes, he believes.   Kansas Spooky highlights include a 2013 note from Ariana Grande - who said a trip to the Cemetery in Stull, KS made a memorable impression. KC   Ghosts of Kansas State University: PrairieGhosts , Ghosts of KU: TheKansan Ghost Investigation at Sigma Nu, KU: LJW   - Yes, it is haunted. I was there for the investigation and follow-up. Ghost removed ...

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” - Marshall McLuhan , The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man , The Mechanical Bride , Marshall McLuhan Estate How did I get to the above info? Twitter : I follow Callum Cooper , Telephone Calls from the Dead/ Amazon , and did a quick search to follow his latest activities.  That led to a long read he had bookmarked on StrangeHistory: The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead. Found more than one item of interest in that piece, including this one: source . Another referenced a book called, The Automaton Ear . Curious, I searched and came up with this post on books, NYTimes , detailing the fascinating story of Marshall McLuhan and that review opened up several important issues - Example : In " Understanding Media ," McLuhan suggests that electric modes of communication--telegraph, ...

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts , The quote appeared in a 1919 book titled “A Shadow Passes” that contained a collection of vignettes depicting scenes in nature. Quote Investigator A few short newsy bits ... IBM : AI will Augment Human Beings. Futurism Creativity , the next upgrade for AI .  IBM opened the floor to a few experts. IBM Hacking AI - Already! Party's over. QZ Lost and found - (add magic ) BoredPanda   Woman finds ring on carrot : BBC - Ring 1/ Sweden 2011, Mashable - Ring 2 /2017 Fake News before it became a meme: Guy Sims Fitch , invented by US Government. Props to the name dept. PaleoFuture.Gizmodo Dying art? Paste Magazine = Prank phone calls, a history. More shenanigans: Art of the Prank Corgi vs. Chicken .. DUCK! TwistedSifter Directed by British filmmaker Magali Barbé, the self-funded sci-fi flick makes you think you are watching a commercial and then... Lost in...

And there it was... or was it?  “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti Odd n ends - UK UFO Investigator Philip Mantle ( Novel /Once Upon a Missing Time) shares his favorite unsolved cases, also said to be giving his last public appearance. DailyMail Keeping watch on Earth : NASA live feed. Also on Ustream Solar Eclipse maps with humor bookmarked from twitter: "Can someone make a map where I can Drink a Beer, See Sasquatch , and get abducted by a UFO during the Eclipse?" And here they are: CNET How GREAT it was. Here are the Solar Eclipse 2017 epics (epic pics) that show - lots of people - had a wonderful time Sun/Moon Gazing. Cheers to Hiawatha, KS for making this totality line-up! BBC Recycle those glasses for viewers of the next Solar Eclipse in South America and Asia. Astronomers without Borders plans to distribute the glasses to schools. Info Update! Just found out - 8/22/17 - she sur...

"I worry once you've tried to change the world, you find it's easier to change your mind." - Jane Wagner, Fun with Jane: Book , Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, LilyTomlin's Blog Odd and ends of interest --  Ticking down .. Solar Eclipse fever. It's all about the timing. Wired .. When Exactly? Wolfram   Cruise Marketing Brilliant!: Bonnie Tyler will be singing at the aha moment. Time   PS: PLEASE. Wear the glasses. CNN   Eclipse 'Debbie Downer' , the what could possibly go wrong angle. Throughout history there have been more than a few phobias and bad omens attached to eclipses. USAToday   In some Native American Traditions - viewing was discouraged. DailyMail Feature 2012   You decide. UFO flying in front of the Capitol Building in Washington? UFOSightingsHotspot   Monkey Biz - servers are the main attraction at a Japanese Bar - UPI Weekender Chillaxn' - 90's Sci-Fi movies - 20 count - includes Galaxy Quest -- or...

"Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” - Roy T. Bennett , The Light in the Heart News, odd and otherwise interesting: Turning a page. Discovery of 4 new planets demonstrates Science is making progress in the ability to detect Earth like planet s. " Steven Vogt , professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz: We are now finally crossing a threshold where, through very sophisticated modeling of large combined data sets from multiple independent observers, we can disentangle the noise due to stellar surface activity from the very tiny signals generated by the gravitational tugs from Earth-sized orbiting planets. EarthSky.org Might help us meet Stephen Hawking 's warning to get our planet relocation division up and running ASAP. Vox Save ourselves from AI? Elon Musk: "If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be." 8/11/17. His suggestion is...

"This will be like Woodstock 200 times over." - Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: CNN Excitement is building but some Solar Eclipse viewing plans are in a state of flux. Oregon has issues. Wildfires have closed parks and trails: JournalSentinal . What you need to know: Forbes. Barring any cloud episodes, there should be no problems in the heartland for the HUGE Solar Eclipse block-off-the-town party in St. Joseph, Missouri - 2 min 38.5 sec, site of full totality is expecting a massive turnout. Four years of planning and preparation for this event. Fox4KC has the story. Check your location: HowtoEclipse.com Weston, Missouri : 2 min 6 point 2 sec. totality, hopes to see a few Solar Eclipse watchers. Activities planned: Verna Kowertz with Main Street Galleria says shops will all be open for the day. Music and an Antique Car exhibit are part of the itinerary.  Special events are booked solid. Sorry! Holladay Distillery...