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Dr. Scott Kolbaba - Physicians, Miracles and the eclectic link roundup

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“ Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” - C.S. Lewis OddsnEnds - Famously Odd. Busy year for the Loch Ness monster . Nessie sighting number 9 logged by an American watching the live web cam: Daily Mail . Try your luck: Here. Says the underwater cam will be online soon. And when you do see the occasional sheep wander through - like I did - they are named Leila and Pi. The new 'Paddock Cam' ( unfortunately ) was not working when I checked in. Ever optimistic, the site says nighttime watching might be good for a UFO sighting. ( Pitch black .) Good Luck!   Acoustic Kitty - CIA spy program: Wiki Canary in the coal mine? Elon Musk, CNBC, continues to flag AI and Humanized Robots as needing some serious oversight, legal and otherwise: HuffPo Somebody please listen. Follow the tweets. Spooky long read. Tripping through the dimensions . Mysterious Univ...

SciXFriday - Phoenix, UFOs and New Science

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Programming the power to overcome. Start here: “To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism OddsnEnds - Outta sight! Fireball capture from Space: Newsweek   AI Drones vs. Human Drones . AI Drone Pilots don't get tired. Racing UFO Sightings Triple? Yahoo   Interview with Cheryl Costa , UFO Sightings Desk Reference , December 10 KCMO Talk Radio 710, 8pm central time. UFO Stalker for the newest sightings. Animal Consciousness , Do Fish Suffer? LATimes Yes. Scientific American Researchers continue to try to debunk ghosts (And ALL UFOs according to this NASA source: Newsweek . Space Dandruff: Atlas Obscura. ) and other PSI experiences as delusional: Gizmodo. However, the stats show we are stubborn in our knowing and believing otherwise: According to Pew Resear...

Midweek Hi-lites: Spooky, AI, Offbeat, Eclectic and Entertaining, etc...

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“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.” - Arthur C. Clarke , Rama II OddsnEnds -- Interstellar Tourist- Named Oumuamua. CNN About that youth gene found in members of the Amish community? New Atlas Frightening wake up call. From the Future Of Life Institute . PSA warning against weaponizing AI. From those who can see the writing on the wall while there is still enough time to apply the white-out. CNET Another potential misuse, already a trend, baiting social media users. Gizmodo Designing and creating safer AI. Please. Stuart Russell. TED Thanksgiving twist. A taste of Native American fare. ( Sample items prepared at a fundraiser look fantastic.) Lakota Chef Sean Sherman, a...

Nauman Naeem, MD, Healing From the Inside Out, and a few links more

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“If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” - Lois Lowry , The Giver OddsnEnds - The newest plan B for Earthling re-homing - Ross 128 b - looks promising. Independent   Trackable med knows when it has been taken and reports to the Doctor. Fortune   New study suggests Dog Owners live longer. Time   And the full report notes the greatest benefit in those who are single or elderly. Nature   Horses read body languag e even when they don't know the person. Sussex They can also tell if we are happy or angry. Sussex   What's up with the bizarre booms in San Diego and New Jersey? Mysterious Universe   In sync with my previous post (that I refer to in the intro to the interview) about a guy who said he was attacked by a ghost in Weston, this guy says he was punched by a ghost and has a few more stories of paranormal / poltergeist encounters he plans to share. Skegness Standard ...

SciXFriday - Infinitely Entangled, Energy, Ghosts, Minds and Machines

Turing called it. - “I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” - Alan Turing , Computing machinery and intelligence (AI. Infinitely beyond Human knowing... experiment underway.) OddsnEnds -  How Alan Turing added Music to the Machine. Spectrum Asgardia is in orbit. The satellite launched this week. CNN Job Opening - Bartender : "must be OK with working alone at night amid taxidermied bear and caribou—and a ghost named Albert Johnson ." Posted on Newser . Location? On the Canadian map right next to the dotted line noting the Arctic Circle. Contact: Eagle Plains Hotel and Service Station Are you a SLIder? Streetlight Interference activity includes anomalous interactions with electronics. You are NOT alone. I don't count my nightlights in this but I do experience interaction with streetlights...

Weston Ghosts and the nearly attached ... Dinner with spirits

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“Never invite any kind of spirit to enter either your home or your person. This is an extremely important point to remember. To do so always risks to unwittingly invite evil spirits in, instead. Good spirits never need to be invited in.” The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits , Alexei Maxim Russell, Amazon Year number 13 for Dining with Ghosts in Weston, Mo. Always interesting. I have made some wonderful connections in Weston and through the guests who have been kind enough to share their stories with me. [An Atheist in Heaven, The Cat who turned White, Mind Control ability lost due to an Accident.] My participation in this event started in 2010. Each year is unique. Main Street Galleria, Weston, Mo. Dining with Ghosts One can expect an overview of the historical highlights outlining the more famous tales but the town is alive with hauntings and new stories are added with each passing year. As I experience an amplified energy in the space and at the event, I ...

Curtis Rivers - The Fearless Path, plus Conscious Robots and Self Awareness

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Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. - Robert Collier OddsnEnds - Relieving Pain. The Virtual Reality remedy looks promising. Wired 2017 Robots and Consciousness - 1/ Proof Machines/Robots can be Conscious? Newsweek 2017 According to researchers in the paper listed at Science Magazine , consciousness, when considered as part of a brain function, can be programed. (Yes, I am simplifying this.) 2/And this Robot (in the vid below) demonstrates the possibility it has the ability to think and to identify itself as the source of that thought. (If I figured out the problem and I solved it, I am therefore a problem solver and an aware thinker.) Daily Mail 2015 AI - the mystery of - Intelligence beyond our capacity to fathom? Technology Review PS. Tech is fine as a shortcut but keyboards have a downside. If you want to remember something, write it down, long hand. Research suggests writing is the best way t...

SciXFriday - Color, AI, Ghosts and PSI challenge with Uri Geller

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“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”  - Terence McKenna Michael Peter Langevin (counted Terence McKenna among his friends) was my guest this week on Conscious Living. Interview is here . We covered a lot of material: Magic, Chaos, Ayahuasca (now being considered as a possible treatment for alcoholism and depression), Shamanism. [ Michael Peter Langevin was the publisher/editor of Magical Blend Magazine . He has authored three books: Spiritual Business, Secrets of the Ancient Incas, and Secrets of the Amazon Shamans.] OddsNEnds - Good News AI: Ultrasound on your phone. Wired Not so good news AI: experts sound the alarm on Killer Robots. Independent Game Changer : Robots can experience Consciousness . Raw Story "Your luck is about the change." Lottery winner + Fortune Cookie#1: $125,000. UPI Lottery winner + Fortune Cookie#2: 390,000. UPI Apples = Ears - M...

Leslie Kean - Evidence of the Afterlife - 11/5/17, Floating KC and a few extras

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"Do well thy work, for it shall succeed, in thine or another's time." - Marcellus Ayer , Founder of the First Spiritual Temple Podcast link for 11/5/17 interview Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife . My interview with Leslie Kean has stayed in the top ten most listened to shows in the Wendy's Coffeehouse podcast archives since the first broadcast in March of this year. Intro for this 11/5/17 show is current and the interview is a rebroadcast, given the popularity of the topic. I hope you enjoy the show. This is one of those topics I return to again and again. As an intuitive, I have no doubt as to the information being helpful. My own experiences are all the validation I need. But there are so many fascinating stories to be told of how each connects and discovers for himself a truth beyond knowing. Believing is optional. Learning never stops. I learn from everyone I interview. Float room at Floating KC more information...

SciXFriday - Pyramids, Space, AI, Unexplained and Curious

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Anything is possible with two words: ''What if..." OddsnEnds - Nix "cavern".  "Big void" is the term for the new discovery in the Great Pyramid. BBC 'Monster planet' unlike anything our current theories support. Independent Stephen Hawking, again sounding the alarm, says AI will replace Humans. Fortune. So, leaving the planet in a hundred years might not save us. Couldn't hurt to give that a shot. Time   How to build a Time Machine, might be our saving grace. Daily Mail Bot dog is back. Sony's Aibo is just as adorable and a bit more engaged. CNET Beware. As you watch Aibo , Aibo is watching you. Independent Star Wars new Trailer: Luke . YouTube (Thank Harrison Ford . Vanity Fair ) Holiday Head start. Gift giving bookmark: Star Wars Augmented Reality headset. Wow! Sample. Dolphins. # Family ties - "The study created a large dataset of information on brain size and social behaviors of 90 different species of do...