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Birthday card from my mum :) Classic:
Ball Lightning May Be All in Your Head
At least half of reported cases could be hallucinations, study says.
Ball lightning is often reported during thunderstorms, and it’s known that multiple consecutive lightning strikes can create strong magnetic fields. So Joseph Peer and Alexander Kendl at the University of Innsbruck in Austria wondered whether ball lightning is really a hallucination induced by magnetic stimulation of the brain’s visual cortex or the eye’s retina.
Focusing magnetic fields on the visual cortex of the brain caused the subjects to see luminous discs and lines. When the focus was moved around within the visual cortex, the subjects reported seeing the lights move.
Looks like there had been a horrible accident outside PC World:
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Here is the new version of rock-paper-scissors, or rochambeau, as it is sometimes known. As you can see from the schematic below, each thing can beat two other things, and is, in turn beaten by two other things.
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-> This is awesome stuff. Top class gaming - a hint of strategy, play anywhere, fun but still makes you think!. I still want to come up with a good version of Top Trumps too.
BBC News - Sceptics stage homeopathy 'overdose'
Homeopathy sceptics have staged a mass “overdose” of homeopathic remedies, in a bid to prove they have no effect.
Protesters ate whole bottles of tablets at branches of Boots in places such as Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, London, Leicester, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
They have asked the pharmacy chain to stop selling the remedies, which they call “scientifically absurd”.
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