And glad I am of it. Did not write last night. Read the December Fortean Times which miraculously appeared in the mail.
So, ten things I read about in the Fortean Times.
1. UFO abductees and lightening strike targets have a lot of common symptoms.
2. There is an elephant who speaks a few words in Korean. Apparently.
3. Charles Fort was going for some kind of unified theory, long before the physicists focused there.
4. The Olmec may have had writing.
5. The Romans had a toothpaste named after Messalina.
6. A researcher looking into woodpecker's lack of headaches won an Ignoble prize.
7. There is a lake of sulfuric mud in Java, swamping villages. Triggered, perhaps, by oil drilling.
8. Nichola Tesla could have been both a mad scientist AND a misunderstood genius.
9. Bruce Lee ate hash. Maybe.
10.Three minnows were found in a duck egg.
5 comments:
#6 I could have used the data this week.
#10 ???!!
So that's where Charles Fort came from!
Fort-ean Times
I love Charles Fort. I love the thought of a)someone disgracing himself by marrying a family servant and then inheriting the family fortune and using the money to retire to a life of sitting in libraries researching oddball stories and b) saving all his research in... shoeboxes was it? At first, when I heard of "The Book of the Damned" I thought it was some cult thing...but darned if the "damned" weren't facts and stories damned by their failure to fit into scientific theory. Rains of frogs and fish etc.
And see? Who'd have guessed an elephant could speak Korean? I barely can speak a word myself!
Oh my! Having just re-read I Claudius, naming a toothpaste after Messalina was so apt!
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