New Paradigm Films is a Norwegian based film production company focusing on new science, spirituality, health and paranormal phenomena. The company gained worldwide attention early October 2010 when it released its UFO documentary The Day Before Disclosure to the public through free online streaming. New Paradigm Films was founded in 2006 by Terje Toftenes, a [...]
Archaeologists have discovered barbecue leftovers dating back to 7,700 years ago in the Stone Age, in the valley of the River Tjonger, the Netherlands. According the Journal of Archaeological Science, the barbeque feast was held 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived in the region with their domestic cattle. Studies showed that the prehistoric consumers [...]
Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil endocasts of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens have reported that almost all brain endocasts display distinct cerebral asymmetry. Peking man’s endocasts are good examples of ancestral brains and are useful in studying human evolution. However, studies examining brain asymmetries in fossil hominids are usually limited to scoring [...]
The excavation site at Kilpisjärvi in Lapland’s municipality of Enontekiö has yielded pieces of pottery and stone objects that are thought to date to the final stages of the Stone Age, some 5,000 years ago. The type of pottery discovered at the site on Monday has never before been found in Finland north of Rovaniemi. [...]
A tiny water boatman is the loudest animal on Earth relative to its body size, a study has revealed. Scientists from France and Scotland recorded the aquatic animal “singing” at up to 99.2 decibels, the equivalent of listening to a loud orchestra play while sitting in the front row. The insect makes the sound by [...]
Kevin Grennan created this Robot Armpit prototype. There’s more good stuff about his work with robots that smell scary in this We Make Money Not Art interview and profile, in honor of The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus, Trust, which deals with smell and robotics. “It was important to me that the odours and chemicals [...]
Two girls who were known as the “Whitebirk witches” have been given anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) for terrorising their neighbours. Amanda Holt, 16, and Tori Duxbury, 15, caused problems for people living in the Whitebirk area of Blackburn, magistrates were told. Police said they received a “catalogue of complaints” about the pair. They included intimidating [...]
Giant lizards being hunted down in South Florida. Goal is ‘to eradicate them or suppress their numbers’ after nonnatives seen in 2 counties. They’re not Godzilla size but large, nonnative lizards in two South Florida counties are being hunted down after alarming humans, including a homeowner who found one that slipped through a doggie door. [...]
A treasure trove of hundreds of new species may have been discovered in the Philippines, including a bizarre sea star that feeds exclusively on sunken driftwood and a deep-sea, shrimp-eating shark that swells up to scare off other predators. Scientists braved leeches and a host of venomous creatures from the mountains to the sea to [...]
A rail passenger was decapitated after being dragged along underneath a Tube train which he had fallen out of while smoking a cigarette. The 52-year-old man is believed to have forced open the emergency exit doors between carriages on a late-night Metropolitan Line Tube train between Chorleywood, Herts, and Chesham, Bucks. Police said that he [...]