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    • Making sense of meteorites

      A were-llama?
      There’s been a couple of interesting posts on the Peru Illness Flap recently. If you haven’t been reading about this, somewhere in the Andes near Lake Titicaca villagers saw a flash of light and heard a bang. They went to investigate and found a crater. They say there was a strange smell and that [...]

    • It’s good, but is it Science?

      There was an interesting page in News @ Nature yesterday. Ruth Ludwin, a researcher at the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been studying stories from the Salish people of the North American west coast about a’yahos, a spirit associated with shaking of the ground and rushing, muddy water. [...]