http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:05:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No disrespect to any of my colleagues who might be current employees of the LA Times (believe it or not, there still are folks over there), but with no ill spirit, and in passing, my mother gave me an apropos 'media nugget.' We were discussing the choice to name the LA ... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/publishing-or-prophylactics.html http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/mayanist-interview-with-nlp-hypnotist-martijn-groenendal.html Great fakes, tea and crumpets, and a nearby Portuguese-speaking gambling capital....I'm there. http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/where-in-the-world.html In the interesting of continuing 'the Pagan agenda,' I am writing this blog to bring awareness to the upcoming Winter Solstice which will take place Monday, December 21, 2009 at 9:47 in the morning Pacific Standard Time. The Winter Solstice may be thought of as the "new moon" of the year, ... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/winter-solstice-2009.html This is the perfect po-mo ironic recession gift for the hipster consumer fighting the urge to consume (energy, like heating, to stay warm) but dying to consume for the holidays. This "informercial" made the rounds a while back but seeing as we're knee deep in the holiday shopping season... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/weezer-snuggie-tops-my-gift-list.html From Cern's website: "High-energy experiments could prise open the inconspicuous dimensions just enough to allow particles to move between the normal 3D world and other dimensions. This could be manifest in the sudden disappearance of a particle into a hidden dimension, or the unexpected appearance of a particle in an ... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/large-hadron-collider-could-open-other-dimensions.html The above footage is of a strange phenomenon that has beset the Hessdalen Valley in Norway during different periods. It was brought to my attention by mayanist Carl Johan Calleman after I asked him for his thoughts on the so-called Norway spiral. He said he found it interesting that so ... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/norway-spiral-hessdalen-lights-and-lucid-dreams.html The video above is of the strange, unexplained spiral that appeared above the skies of Oslo yesterday. Everyone is quick to say it's the product of a Russian missile, but the timing is eerie (though not conclusive in and of itself, of course). Yesterday, the NY Times published an article about ... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/norway-spiral-connected-to-hadron-collider-or-mayan-tree-of-life.html [Re-blog of my blog editorial for The Huffington Post] Two-thousand-and-nine is drawing to a close. We’re at the end of the decade and inching towards the culmination of the ancient Mesoamerican Mayan calendar...nearing the epoch of who knows what? Literally, philosophically, pop culturally and sociologically, the zeitgeist points to the fate of ... http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/beyond-2012-hype-a-scientist-and-mayanist-faces-the-evolution-question.html http://www.shanatinglipton.com/blog/788.html