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Newton's 'Philosopher's Stone' Recipe Found

One of Isaac Newton's 17th-century alchemy manuscripts, buried in a private collection for decades, reveals his recipe for a material thought to be a step toward concocting the magical philosopher's stone. The "philosopher's stone" was a mythical substance that alchemists believed had magical properties and could even help humans achieve immortality.

The manuscript turned up at an auction in Pasadena, California on February 16th, where the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia bought it. The alchemy text will be available in an online repository for those interested in the history of modern chemistry, according to James Voelkel, the CHF's curator of rare books. The handwritten document contains instructions for making "philosophic" mercury that Newton copied from a text by another known alchemist, an American chemist named George Starkey. Starkey studied at Harvard University, and moved to England in 1650 to work with eminent chemists of the time; he eventually ended up working with Robert Boyle, one of Newton's contemporaries.

Now that the CHF has purchased the manuscript, it will be added to The Chymistry of Isaac Newton project, an online repository curated by Indiana University, so it can be shared and studied more widely, Voelkel said.

Full Story: http://www.livescience.com/54162-newton-recipe-for-philosophers-stone-rediscovered.html

The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/

Ancient Necropolis Discovered Near Aswan, Egypt

A remarkable 3,400-year-old necropolis has been discovered at an Egyptian quarry site, the Ministry of Antiquities announced on Wednesday. Consisting of dozens of rock-cut tombs, the New Kingdom necropolis was found at Gebel el Silsila, a site north of Aswan known for its stone quarries on both sides of the Nile. Blocks used in building almost all of ancient Egypt’s great temples were cut from there. “So far we have documented over 40 tombs, including a small shrine on the banks of the Nile,” Said Lund University archaeologist Maria Nilsson, director of the Gebel el Silsila Survey Project.

Nilsson and associate director John Ward concentrated on the cleaning of a small selection of tombs. Their team worked in cooperation with the Ministry of Antiquities. The excavation wasn’t an easy task; since the tombs were affected by the annual Nile floods, the archaeologists had to deal with disturbed layers containing pottery, bones, beads and Nile silt, mixed with remains of animals, including crocodiles.

Accessed via a series of steps that descend into a rough-cut squared chamber, the tombs feature entrances consisting of a square aperture that incorporate a vertical slot to either door. This would have facilitated a heavy, vertically-closing type of closure. Since the burials are quite elaborate in their style, Nilsson and Ward speculate they are not tombs for the quarry workers, but were rather assigned to people of higher rank.

“Preliminary analysis of the bones suggests burials of men, women and children of all ages. Importantly, this indicates a more permanent habitation at Gebel el Silsila than previously thought,” Ward said.

Link: http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/3400-year-old-necropolis-found-in-egypt-160330.htm

The Lost City of Cambodia

(Editor's Note: I simply cannot do this article justice in 2000 characters. It's an amazing story, you should just ignore this synopsis and head over and read the full article.)

Phnom Kulen is only some 25 miles north of a metropolis that reached its zenith three centuries later—the greatest city of the Khmer Empire, and possibly the most glorious religious center in the history of mankind: Angkor, derived from the Sanskrit word nagara, or holy city, site of the famed temple Angkor Wat. But first there arose Phnom Kulen, the birthplace of the great Khmer civilization that dominated most of Southeast Asia from the 9th to the 15th centuries.

Nothing ignites an archaeologist’s imagination like the prospect of a lost city. In the late 19th century, French explorers and scholars, pursuing fragmentary clues about the existence of Phnom Kulen, hacked their way through the jungles of Southeast Asia. Inscriptions found on temple doors and walls made mention of a splendid hilltop capital called Mahendraparvata. A French archaeologist, Philippe Stern, trekked to the top of the Phnom Kulen plateau in 1936, and in five weeks of excavations he and his co-workers uncovered the ruins of 17 Hindu temples, fallen carved lintels, statues of the Hindu god Vishnu, and remnants of a great stone pyramid. Stern believed that he had located Mahendraparvata. But the temples of Angkor, built on a more accessible flat plain and visible on a larger scale, were more compelling to archaeologists, and the excavations at Phnom Kulen never advanced much beyond Stern’s initial dig. Then came decades of neglect and horror.

Full Article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-city-cambodia-180958508/

The stones themselves have no effect. It's a placebo. Attaching "luck" to an object will make you feel lucky when carrying it, which will boost confidence. Confidence is good.

Equally, if told that the stones were "cursed", the carrier may lose confidence, making them act negatively.

>>17541078
I have not found any scientific study to back this up yet, if you did find one please share it.
I made this procedure to find out wether it is a placebo or wether it's real.

>>17541059
Looks like a solid enough experiment to me. I would glue the pouches shut too, so that it's very obvious if one of the pouches is opened.

nelson mandela is alive

>>17540731
Fuck off coz you is after cheese pizza and we Fucking Know it ...

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U wot mate?

>>17540644
1. Keep a dream journal, this will help you remember dreams and recognise recurring themes. Write in it as soon as you wake up and jot down all the details.

2. Perform reality checks on a regular basis - Whenever you remember to, perform a reality check, look at your hands, study them, count the amount of fingers, ask yourself if they are real and whether you are dreaming.

3. Question reality, question everyday happenings and whether they are real or not, meet up with someone you haven't seen in a while? Reality check. Find something out of place? Reality check. Do something awkward? Reality check. Scared? Reality check. All these will help you to discover you're lucid in a dream.

4. Once you're in a lucid dream it can be easy to lose it and wake up, the main rule to follow is that you remain calm, if you get too excited your brain will wake you up. If you feel yourself losing the dream fall backwards and try to conjure up another dreamworld, it should help solidify the dream reality.

5. Practice, you will get better at lucid dreaming in time, but you have to be consciously working on reality checks and keeping a dream journal.

6. If you discover a theme in your dreams, such as a recurring character, object, place, or event, use it as a reality check, ingrain it in your mind that that is a theme you dream about and perform a reality check whenever that happens.

7. Have fun.

Whenever i try to wake up in a dream i get like paralyzed and my whole body is stuck for like 5 seconds but im awake

What am i doing wrong

>>17540644
Use the dream thread, newfag. >>17515303

>>17540642
>Some guy whistles.
>Some other guy hears person whistle.
Fuck thats spooky.

>>17540758
Except that guy has been following this person since childhood, even to a different state.

Extreme stalker or alien.

At this point he is a grown ass man that can kick the shit out of the now old as fuck guy that has been following him

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>>17540614
Anyone ever used a grimoire?

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>>17540614
I'm disappointed.

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>>17540684
BOOKS DO YOU HAVE THEM

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>>17540507
sounds like someone hasn't been taking their meds again

>>17540507
Possibly a spirit, but most likely a weird hobo on drugs walking in the street

>>17540519
Yeah but this doesn't explains why he suddenly Disappeared. She described it like a glitch in video game. In one frame he was there and in the next one he was gone :/

>>17540288
What do you mean by exist?

i think it does so it must exist as an idea at the very least

>>17540288
How can 4chan exist if we don't exist?

one of the main instincts people have is self-preservation

if something is perceived as a danger, it's pretty natural to want to remove yourself from that situation. As an outsider it's easy to say "I'd want to explore deeper" but if you were in that situation yourself, you'd get the same urge to leave, probably.

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>>17540138
preech

>>17540118

I do this too if I have a weapon or shield on me when i go exploring

>>17539922
>Imagine thinking you're in a coma, sort-of matrix style. Your current life is an illusion.

Stopped reading there

>>17539922
tl:dr fagget

>>17539922
Everyone has a time to die.
I will let fate decide when I have to face it.
I tried to take my life before and have thought about taking my life daily.
The world is a shitty place, but then I remember the light that each of us carry.
Wisdom, knowledge, strength, courage, and compassion let these be your tools for forging a better world.
No matter the obstacle, no matter the pain fight on.
Even if you only crawl your way into the next day, keep crawling.
Don't let your light be extinguished for no reason.
Nothing matters, however everything matters.
If we are to become nothing some day, why not try out hardest while we are something.
The only purpose to life is living, so live.

Look up the book 'Exploring Lucid Dreaming'. Then take the steps involved in the book.

I find falling asleep after being up and busy for a couple hours helps alot.

it will not happen tonight it takes time and practise i have been trying for a month now and nothing only the vibrations and the high pitched sound

>>17539853
theres a cool trick i've heard about the other day.

whey you're about to fall asleep just take a heavy object in your hand. when u'll pass out the object will drop and wake you up. repeat untill lucid dream. the idea is that it will make go in some kind of in-between state of sleep and wake. did not try it but a friend said he had some easy going success with it

go to a trump rally

>>17539329
I'll have to check when the next one near me is thanks

>>17539329
you're not wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8eYJU3Zu1M

.onion? I'm not going to be the first one to click on this...

It's not something bad... but it makes me feel unconfortable and also... it's weird because most of the times .onion opens only with tor... this is available in all browsers...

Sounds like a bad idea to me

>>17539062

>a literal nobody giving an interview to an unknown website instead of going straight to CNN
>related articles: dang your 2 year old is mean

>Van Allen radiation belts tear a dog to shreds inside a test spaceship.

I feel insulted.

>cant be bothered to RP
>posts link to RP

Don't laugh. Shit ain't even funny.

Because it's fucking creepy, backwards voices too.

>>17539008
Exactly!!!!!spooky m8, but why?

>>17539006
strange i find it rather relaxing and peaceful.