Historians are keen to assign the invention of an idea to the first person (or culture) we have on record as mentioning it. Even if that mention suggests that they received the idea from somewhere else. Ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic brew, is a combination of two plants native to the Amazon rainforest: the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the…
Month: December 2023
Return of the Killer Comet in 4672 AD
More than a decade ago I tried to find a comet that could cause a doomsday in 2012. Because we didn’t know of one actually heading toward us, I looked at all the historical comets and tried to find on that could be returning, finally settling on Caesar’s Comet. While even NASA cannot predict the…
Watchers in the 21st Century: Henry Kissinger
Kissinger made the news recently because he achieved 100 years of age. And then again when he died in November 2024. A far more unique achievement was that he advised (to some degree) all of the US presidents from Nixon through to Trump. Even people who didn’t follow politics knew of him. While most people…