Secret
Weapons. Agence France-Presse reports on researcher Ray Waru’s
discoveries in New Zealand’s national archives, including a top-secret World
War II effort by New Zealand and the United States to create a “tsunami bomb” that
would devastate coastal cities (via The Anomalist): http://www.france24.com/en/20121230-ufos-tsunami-bomb-nz-archive-secrets-revealed
Space
Travel. Prolonged exposure to radiation could hasten Alzheimer’s
among space travelers, says a new study in PLOS ONE. Lots of coverage,
including Space.com (http://www.space.com/19082-space-radiation-astronauts-alzheimers.html)
and Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121231180632.htm).
UFOs.
Saturday
Night UFOria has posted a tribute to ufologist J. Allen Hynek, including the
text of his speech at a then-classified 1960 symposium at Eglin Air Force Base
in Florida (via The Anomalist): http://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/ourspeakertonight-drhynek.html
Werewolves.
Geneticist
Ricki Lewis reports at PLOS.org on the latest genetic research into Ambas syndrome,
a rare disorder that gave the world Fedor Jepticheff – whom P.T. Barnum christened
Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Man – and may have influenced Hollywood’s depiction of
werewolves: http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2012/12/27/the-curious-genetics-of-werewolves/
