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Indiana Jones to penetrate pyramid
The National Geographic Society, using the same kind of robot used to search for survivors in the ruins of the World Trade Center, is trying to solve a mystery that lies deep in the bowels of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza.
Up a tiny square tunnel is a stone hatch with copper handles that was discovered in 1872. No one knows the purpose of the shaft, and no one knows what lies behind the hatch.

Fifty Percent of Stalkers Are Ex-Partners
Sheridan found that 50 percent of stalkers are ex-partners, 18.5 percent are infatuated with their target, 15.3 percent are delusional and do not respond to reason or rejection and 12.9 percent are sadistic and obsessed with their victim. An infatuated stalker and a sadistic stalker may both send flowers and letters to get information about their victims.

Cthuugle Ph'nglui Search Fhtagn!
The complete HP Lovecraft Search Engine

Hunter Thompson is still all-Gonzo
He is as relevant today as when he revolutionized much of journalism in the 1970s with his self-styled "Gonzo" approach. Gonzo was a kind of shorthand for unrestrained first-person writing. Echoing such writers as Tom Wolfe and Charles Bukowski, Thompson's writing was equal parts irreverent and without reverence.

Tissue engineers grow penis in the lab
In a remarkable feat of tissue engineering, major parts of the penises of several rabbits have been replaced with segments grown in a lab from their own cells. The animals were able to use the reconstructed organs to mate. The next step is to try to recreate the entire organ from scratch.

N.Y. Lottery Draws 9-1-1 on 9/11
On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks, a date known as 9-11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery were 9-1-1.

True Porn Clerk Stories
Ali Davis keeps this journal of her new life as a porn store clerk on the Improv message board. It varies from the sublime to the outrageous. She also appeared on This American Life, Act Four. We here at incunabula.org have talked to Ali and she's a very cool, very nice person and we highly reccomend her work. Maybe if you're lucky you can catch her Improv troupe at work.

Segway scooter done?
So all the people who had preordered a Segway from Amazon just received a note from Amazon saying, "We've recently learned from our supplier that the item you requested to be notified about, Segway Human Transporter (also known as "Ginger" or "IT"), will not be available in the foreseeable future" and then recommends that shoppers look for the item on Amazon's used and auction sites.

OPERATION PAPERCLIP
After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russian and American intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied Germany for military and scientific booty. They were looking for things like new rocket and aircraft designs, medicines, and electronics. But they were also hunting down the most precious "spoils" of all: the scientists whose work had nearly won the war for Germany. The engineers and intelligence officers of the Nazi War Machine.
Convinced that German scientists could help America's postwar efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize "Project Paperclip," a program to bring selected German scientists to work on America's behalf during the "Cold War."

National Security Act of 1947
The National Security Act of 1947 was an important piece of legislation intended to reorganization the United States armed forces after World War 2. Among the provisions of the act including creation of the United States Air Force and combining it with the United States Army and United States Navy into the United States Department of Defense. In addition, the act created the United States National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Who Killed John Lennon?
"Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise
because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot."
Bresler begins by questioning the "lone nut" theory. Since 1835, 15 men and 2 women have attacked "nationally prominent political leaders in sixteen separate incidents." Of those 17, only 3 have been ruled insane by law. Mark David Chapman was never found to be legally insane. "The 'lone nut' theory simply does not stand up as an all-embracing explanation covering all -- or even most -- instances of American political assassination."

Vatican Assassins:
"Wounded in the House of My Friends"
After Thirty-Eight Years of Suppression (1963 - 2001)
Exposing the Murder of Knight of Columbus
President John F. Kennedy

Lunar Landing Skeptic Claims Buzz Aldrin Attacked Him Outside LA Hotel
Authorities are investigating a complaint that retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin punched a man in the face, because he was asked to swear on a Bible that he had been on the moon.

Saddam "Music Videos"
Iraqi television broadcasts nightly one of its "Sadddam Hussein music videos." Here are two of them:

IBM at Work on Hippocratic Database
IBM researchers are working on a new database design that takes consumer privacy into account in the way it stores and retrieves information.
IBM Fellow Rakesh Agrawal this week is presenting the idea, called a Hippocratic database, at the Very Large Data Base 2002 conference in Hong Kong. The design is based on the Hippocratic oath that serves as the basis of doctor-patient relationships. The concept occurred to Agrawal while being challenged by his brother, who is a doctor, about the inability of technology like databases to take individuals' privacy concerns into account.

Ordinary people, extraordinary evil
What kind of person can attack, mutilate and kill a total stranger or even a neighbor? A scholar talks about the dark potential in all of us.

Study: Humans Not Fit for Cloning
A new study on cloning shows more than ever it's probably a very bad idea to replicate human beings.

Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
From 1958 to 1965, a team of physicists and engineers at General Atomic in California pursued the Orion dream. Project Orion tells their story ably. Dyson explores high-minded science and baroque bureaucracies in short, manageable, anecdote-loaded chapters. It's a terrifically easy read; with just freshman physics and a passing knowledge of 1950's America, I was able to follow along with no problems. The book begins by explaining the basics of Orion, the 1950's atomic establishment, the dot-com-like culture at General Atomic, the experiments that gave rise to the Orion idea, and the seed funding from ARPA. Dyson moves on to introduce us to some of Orion's chief characters, notably Stanislaw Ulam, who originally patented the atomic-pulse-drive idea, Ted Taylor, the Orion project leader and namer (he "just picked a name out of the sky," says the book) and Freeman Dyson, the celebrated scientist who was on board for the first two years -- and, who, not coincidentally, is George Dyson's father.

Sample Coordinates
Armed only with a notebook and a handheld global positioning device, McKenzie Wark tracks the secret passage of free time and free thought through the spaces of an everyday life lived increasingly in the shadow of the satellites. 'Sample Coordinates' records one writer's experience of art and everyday life while struggling to be at home in a world of global commerce and surveillance. 'Sample Coordinates' proposes a joyous but pragmatic anarchy of thought and writing as the antidote to the discipline that states and markets alike impose on knowledge and culture.

HEAVY-DUTY BEAUTY
In an ongoing commitment to heavy-duty beauty, Plazm presents a gallery of people and their tools. Photography by Jeremy Bittermann.

You’ve Got Mail!
Wait a minute Mr. Postman! Handwritten letters are back. The electronic revolution may have threatened handwritten notes, but we're hearing that young people are once again whippin' out their pens and paper for correspondence.

Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion
Garry Webb's groundbreaking investigation into the CIA is back on the web. Along with Ben Attias' page and Whiteout, few can doubt the CIA's role in the eighties crack explosion

When Darwinists go too far
Can evolution explain not only how our bodies evolved the way they did, but why we behave the way we do? The rising school of thought known as evolutionary psychology answers with a resounding yes. In The Moral Animal, for example, a popular treatment of the subject, author Robert Wright states: "If the theory of natural selection is correct, then essentially everything about the human mind should be intelligible in these terms. The basic ways we feel about each other, the basic kinds of things we think about each other and say to each other are with us today by virtue of their past contribution to genetic fitness."

OBESITY HERALDS CHANGE IN SHAPE OF HUMAN BODY
scientist is claiming worldwide obesity is now so rife that it represents an evolutionary shift in human body shape.
People are undergoing a change similar to that which occurred two centuries ago when Europeans shot up in height by 30 centimetres or more, said Professor Andrew Prentice.
But this time they are expanding outwards. And far from being a reflection of more healthy living, as is getting taller, the new trend threatens to lead to chronic illness and reduced lifespan.
The obesity epidemic, which began in the USA, has now spread to Europe, Australasia, Central America and the Middle East, said Professor Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

H-P researchers make tiny memory from molecules
Researchers at U.S. computer company Hewlett-Packard said on Monday they had created a computer memory chip using new molecular technology that takes miniaturisation further than ever before.

The Divinator: Oracle for a New Millennium
What is The Divinator and how do I use it?
The Divinator is a unique two-way conversational vehicle that delivers sage-like intelligence and humor.
The Divinator is not a "chatterbot", magic 8-ball, or Eliza type program . It has more advanced language parsing and more extensive content behind its diverse sage characters. A piece of literature nearly a decade in the making, it has been compared to classic divination methods including the I Ching in that it acts as a Synchronicity generator.