Wednesday August 5, 2026


Patrick Ewing - August 5, 1962 - Videos


Sports keeps kids busy and out of trouble.


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Making Friends on the Promenade


In August I update old Crystalinks files based on popularity and new content - such as extinction which has become very popular. Did the reported 6 extinction events really happen or - as I suspect - were different inserts in the simulation and perhaps never happened at all.


It would seem that people are using their psychic abilities - not for healing as everyone knows the emotional leads to the physical - but to figure out where we're going personally and as a planetary experience in logic and emotions.


With that in mind - on a rare perfect weather day in the city I walked to the promenade where I met a couple visiting from Quebec and two young woman from Russia who had rented bikes to see the sights of Bay Ridge. We really do need more days like this - but you take them when you get them as the climate changes...





This isn't exactly Thoth but birds have been part of my readings these days ... from a Falconer in Illinois to a local bird watcher - the theme continues. Also of note ... I have seen butterflies lately in reference to mediumship with clients. Can spirits manifest as birds or butterflies, or something similar? Apparently they can



Thoth in the News


Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of the moon had two very different faces - a crescent-beaked white bird and a silver-coated baboon. Now, researchers think they may have found the common thread connecting them all.



The Many Faces and Identities of Thoth




Astronomy in the News


Astronomy Index


A piece of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes (4.4 tons) was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon on Wednesday, a collision that posed no danger to Earth but is expected to leave behind a lunar crater


Astronomers Find Ancient Black Holes Shining With the Power of a Trillion Suns


Meteorite That Smashed Through a New Jersey Roof Hid an Ancient Chemical Secret


Moonquakes could help scientists find buried lunar ice and reveal where Earth's water came from.


Rocks From the Moon's Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History


Giant waves are sweeping Mars' atmosphere into space


NASA's Curiosity Finds a Vast Sea of Mysterious Polygons on Mars




Physics in the News


Physics


Astronomers Find Ancient Black Holes Shining With the Power of a Trillion Suns


Meteorite That Smashed Through a New Jersey Roof Hid an Ancient Chemical Secret


Strange quantum experiment shows 'negative time' is more than an illusion


Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber


All four major LHC experiments have found new evidence that collisions between oxygen and neon may produce the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang.


Large Hadron Collider





Chemistry in the News


Chemistry ~ ~ Metallurgy ~ ~ Minerals


Scientists just 3D printed one of the hardest metals on Earth - tungsten carbide cobalt





Math in the News


Mathematics


Physicists find a way to control heat in a way once thought impossible


Mathematicians prove perfectly fair elections are impossible





Technology in the News


Artificial Intelligence ~ ~ Technology


Noninvasive AI-based system translates brain signals into written text


Quantum Photons Survive a 24-Kilometer Journey Through Chicago's Busy Internet


Physicists have now demonstrated that unusual quantum objects called non-Abelian anyons can provide that versatility by supporting the full range of operations required for universal quantum computing.





Health in the News


Health Files ~ Alternative Healing


Scientists Have Found The Brain Circuit Behind Misophonia's 'Rage Response' - a severe reaction to everyday sounds such as chewing or sniffing


Experimental Eye Drops Restore Sight in Blind Mice





Brain in the News


Brain Index


Scientists discover the brain cells that keep you motivated


Scientists may finally know how human brains have evaded decay for thousands of years


Speaking More Languages May Slow Brain Aging


Scientists Have Found The Brain Circuit Behind Misophonia's 'Rage Response' - a severe reaction to everyday sounds such as chewing or sniffing


Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Worse For Your Brain Than Sugar? An Epidemiologist Explains


Unexpected Structure Detected in The Brains Of Humans And Mice With Alzheimer's Disease





Planet Earth In the News


Planet Earth Index ~ Earth Changes Index


Ancient Arctic carbon is pouring into the sea, but the seabed captures most of it


A massive, unsuspected magma reservoir has been hiding beneath Tuscany.


The World Is Running Out of River Sand, And That's a Massive Issue





Extinction In the News


Extinction


Earth's Biggest Mass Extinction Reveals Chilling Parallels to Today's World





Wildfires In the News


Wildfires


Ongoing Global Wildfires Summer of 2026




Oceanography in the News


Oceanography Index


AI reveals a massive algae boom across the world's oceans which leads to ...


Some coastal cities are sinking faster than the ocean is rising





Antarctica In the News


Antarctica - Science and Pseudoscience


'Unique Refuge': A Lost Sea May Still Be Alive Beneath Antarctica's Eerie Blood Falls


Scientists uncover big clue as to how Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls came to be


Ancient Microorganisms Discovered Inside One of Antarctica's Most Inhospitable Landmarks


Scientists Find a Hidden 'Fish City' Beneath Antarctica's Ice





Archaeology in the News


Archaeology


Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Trained Warriors, Their Bones Reveal


Forgotten Autobiography Rewrites the Story of a War of 1812 Soldier


Kenya: A 1.4-million-year-old fossil trail of footprints reveals that a powerful human relative grew nearly as large as us and may have traveled in all-male groups


Australia: Underwater cave bones carry hidden fingerprints that could reveal how extinct giants reached their submerged graveyards.


Scientists Discover an Odd Genetic Trait in an Ancient Aboriginal Food Plant


Scientists Discover an Odd Genetic Trait in an Ancient Aboriginal Food Plant





Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


An 80-million-year-old fossil reveals that early snakes explored underground, terrestrial, and marine worlds much earlier than scientists realized.


300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Baby Crocodiles Challenge the Textbook Story of Life's Move Onto Land


Were there tiny dinosaurs? New study explores one of evolution's biggest mysteries


Ancient armored fish that narrowly avoided meteorite strike reveals life before Earth's largest mass extinction


This school-bus-sized terror croc ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back


Long-Lost Megalodon Fossils Found Hiding on a Museum Shelf


Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making














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