Satanic hand severed, microwaved and a plane-flying rat brain

A man who believed he bore the “mark of the beast” used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.

SFGate.com, “Man Cuts Off, Microwaves His Own Hand”

The man thoughtfully put a tourniquet on his arm before cutting off his hand so he wouldn’t bleed to death. It’s not clear whether the man had a history of mental illness or if this is a fun new thing for him. Kind of reminds me of Evil Dead.

Lest you begin to think it’s only Christians who spark bizarre news stories¹, an American scientist with Frankenstein-like leanings has developed a brain in a jar derived from rat brain cells that is capable of flying a virtual airplane.

A Florida scientist has developed a “brain” in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.

CNN.com, “‘Brain’ in a dish flies flight simulator“

The world is a very strange place.

Footnotes:

1. See [cref 53] and [cref 59]. [back]

Psyche is the editor of Plutonica.net and the curator for the occult resource SpiralNature.com, Psyche also operates a tarot consultation business, Psyche Tarot. She has been published in The Cauldron, Konton, Tarot World Magazine, among other magazines, and her essay “Strategic Magick” appeared in Manifesting Prosperity (Megalithica, 2008).

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