Occult Profile: Chip Coffey On "Growing Up Psychic"

As far back as ancient Egypt, we humans have been fascinated with psychic phenomena and the paranormal. And wherever you sit on the spectrum of believer or disbeliever, you probably grew up with a Ouija board.

Chip Coffey grew up with way more than a board game. The star of A&E's hit television show "Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal," Coffey is an internationally known psychic, medium, paranormal investigator and lecturer who has made appearances on "Good Morning America" and "Larry King Live." In his book released this week, Growing Up Psychic: My Story of Not Just Surviving but Thriving - and How Others Like Me Can, Too, Coffey shares his personal story of discovering his psychic gifts as a child, the challenges he faced coming to terms with it and his decision to embrace it.

Since 2001, Coffey has conducted over 20,000 readings for clients all over the world. Said Coffey: "Being psychic -- minus the woo woo -- simply means being able to access energy or information that can't be accessed using the give senses. People try to make it a lot bigger, weirder and spookier than it really is."

We recently suspended disbelief and telecommunicated with Coffey from Los Angeles.

Tsunami 'Ghost Ship' to Be Sunk by Coast Guard

A derelict Japanese "ghost ship," sent adrift towards the US following last year's tsunami, is to be sunk Thursday by the US Coast Guard, which says it poses an "imminent threat."

The unmanned Ryou-Un Maru fishing boat will be sent to the bottom of the ocean by a US Coast Guard gunnery crew, CBC News reported.

"The Coast Guard has the primary responsibility for response to maritime threats, including hazards to navigation," according to a statement from Capt. Daniel Travers from Coast Guard District 17.

"This unmanned vessel poses an imminent threat to mariners and the environment," he added.

Ryou-Un Maru is approximately 164 miles (264 kilometers) west of Baranof Island, Alaska, according to the US Coast Guard.

It will be sunk by a 25-millimeter cannon fired from a Coast Guard Cutter. The vessel will be sunk with about 8,000 liters (2,113 gallons) of fuel on board, although the Coast Guard does not believe this will cause any problems on shore.

"The vessel is far enough off shore that if any product did enter the water, it would be dissipated naturally by the wind wave and weather patterns before it came it contact with sensitive areas on shore," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow told CBC.

He added that it would be too expensive to salvage the ship.

via Fox News

Lions and early humans partnered in mammoth hunt?

After being frozen under Siberian ice for at least 10,000 years, well-preserved, recently discovered mammoth remains are providing clues about the past.

The details of how the massive mammal lived and died are still being interpreted by scientists. But it looks like hungry humans played a role in its demise.

"This is the first relatively complete mammoth carcass -- that is, a body with soft tissues preserved -- to show evidence of human association," Daniel Fisher, curator and director of the University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology, told Discovery News.

From scratches in the mammoth's hide and bite marks in the tail it looks like the mammoth, known as Yuka, was chased by lions. Not long before death, Yuka also appears to have fallen, breaking a hind leg.

How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind

Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person's mind. Lesley Stahl reports.

Hauntings - Is It Real? - National Geographic Channel

Hauntings are often attributed to paranormal activity, ranging from bothersome poltergeists to possessive demons. How much of this activity is truly supernatural and how much exists only in our minds? An examination of the infamous Amityville, New York case shows that, outside of the horrific murders, the rest was clearly a fabrication. The eerie stories from Bobby Mackie's bar in Kentucky and the Luncaster Castle in England may have more natural causes. High carbon monoxide levels cause people to feel queasy and uneasy while strong magnetic fields which are known to cause hallucinations.

Cool Science and Technology Stuff Coming up This Spring and Summer

There is an unusual confluence of very interesting, exciting stuff scheduled to happen over the next few months in the domains of science and technology.

A critical step will be taken toward radically reducing the cost of reaching orbit, bringing humanity one step closer to finally realizing the dreams of a true Space Age.

A revolutionary mass-market electric sedan will finally reach its first customers, and its manufacturing will ramp up from there.  The most ambitious robotic mission to Mars yet will (knock on wood) reach the surface of the Red Planet.

And an asteroid probe will depart from asteroid Vesta on a multi-year journey to Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system and a dwarf planet possessing more water (in the form of ice) than all the oceans of Earth combined.  I would just like to briefly run down these developments and what they hopefully portend.

I.  April 30, 2012: Unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral and, a few days later, dock with the International Space Station.


This doesn't sound very momentous if one were to judge it against, say, the Apollo program or the expectations it engendered.  But to most people who follow the progress of spaceflight, the upcoming launch of the Dragon spacecraft - even unmanned - signals a drastic sea change in the fortunes of humanity's long-delayed ambitions in space.  Until SpaceX came along, the future looked grim indeed: