~ Saturday, June 22, 2019 ~
In the winter of 1984, a team from Østfold University College arrived in Hessdalen with radar equipment, magnetometers, and a spectrum analyser. They were there for five weeks. In the first week they recorded fifty-three observations, several confirmed simultaneously by both visual sighting and radar return. What the instruments showed over the following decades is worth setting out carefully, because the data is more specific — and more strange — than most popular accounts suggest.
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~ Friday, April 12, 2019 ~
The Baltic shore in April is cold and grey, the water colourless where it meets the sand. The material that made this coastline legible to Rome — that gave it a name in the Roman mind when the name of every king who ruled it was forgotten — washes up after storms: pale, translucent, light in the hand. The Romans called it by two different names, and the difference between those names contains almost everything that needs to be said about how knowledge travels.
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~ Friday, March 15, 2019 ~
In central Norway, roughly 120 kilometres south of Trondheim, there is a farming valley twelve kilometres long with a permanent population of around 150 people. The river Hesja runs through it north to south. For most of the twentieth century, no one outside Holtålen municipality had heard of it. Since the early 1980s, it has been the site of the most sustained scientific investigation of anomalous luminous phenomena in the world.
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~ Monday, February 18, 2019 ~
Paul is the most prolific author in the New Testament. He is also the apostle who devoted the largest portion of his writing to defending his right to write it. The defense in Galatians is not rhetorical modesty. It is a response to a specific charge, addressed to a specific audience, and its existence tells us something about the apostolic category that the canonical narrative does not state directly.
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~ Sunday, October 7, 2018 ~
In September 2012, Czech Television broadcast a three-part crime series called Ztracená brána — Lost Gate. Written by Arnošt Vašíček and directed by Jiří Strach, it told a story about a serial killer investigation in Prague that turned out to involve the Voynich manuscript, a secret order of guardians, and a prophecy about a gate that would open on a specific day. It received reasonable reviews, an IMDB rating of 7.8, and then largely disappeared from public discussion. Not many crime series disappear this completely when their reviews were this good.
I have been trying to explain that for six years.
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