War tubas

The Japanese knew if they played the Beggar's Opera long enough the enemy would flee.

From Homeless Artist in Vienna to......

I cannot come to grips with the relationship between these two images:

1) a poor and homeless man in Vienna in 1909, sleeping in doorways, having been rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts twice, and wishing to lead the noble life of an artist.

2) a man standing triumphantly in the back of an open limo driving through the streets of Vienna, gesturing "Heil Hitler", with his army and nation taking over Austria.

Same man.

A Remarkable Upheaval in Science

This from "ReOrbit breaking news" via Bill, who constantly finds the most amazing things. Don't be put off by the New Age appearance of this news, it is being taken very seriously:

It appears that a black box churning out random numbers in general produces about an even number of binary 'ones' and 'zeros'. But just before major world events (e.g. 9/11 and the Tsunami), the output swings wildly away from the norm. It suggests the possibility of predicting the future.


"DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream.
At first glance it is an unremarkable piece of equipment. Encased in metal, it contains at its heart a microchip no more complex than the ones found in modern pocket calculators.
But, according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events.
The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy.
Now, even the doubters are acknowledging that here is a small box with apparently inexplicable powers.
'It's Earth-shattering stuff,' says Dr Roger Nelson, emeritus researcher at Princeton University in the United States, who is heading the research project behind the 'black box' phenomenon.
'We're very early on in the process of trying to figure out what's going on here. At the moment we're stabbing in the dark.' Dr Nelson's investigations, called the Global Consciousness Project, were originally hosted by Princeton University and are centred on one of the most extraordinary experiments of all time. Its aim is to detect whether all of humanity shares a single subconscious mind that we can all tap into without realising. "

http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=126649#121