Haruspication: fortune telling (e.g. weather forecasting) using animal innards From environmentalgraffitti.com: Paul Smokov, an 84 year old cattle rancher from Steele, N.D., claims that he has forecasted the weather with 85% accuracy by observing the shape of pig spleens. The National Weather Service, with their millions in high tech equipment, is about 60% … [Read more...]
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From Wired magazine issue 16.01 [online (reproduced here in full, as it has been noticed that Wired articles online tend to disappear)] by Clive Thompson 12.20.07 Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds Australia is suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned into a dust bowl, crops are dying off at … [Read more...]