Spoiler alert: just read the original story if you want to be led through all the clues, one by one, as LiveScience tries to eliminate the supernatural. Otherwise, here’s their conclusion:
One obvious answer, prematurely dismissed by Peterson and others, is almost certainly the correct one: the ghost is a bug. A spider or insect wandered onto the camera; that’s why it was out of focus, why it seemed to glow, why it didn’t interact with anything in the room, and why it only appeared on one camera. It’s true that a moving light wouldn’t activate the camera, as they are sensitive to motion, not light. But it was the bug’s movement that triggered the sensor and started the recording.
The Big Money makes an argument that Karl Marx had uncanny predictions of bank failure in his day, but also lessons for today:
When money is coming in, banks are blind to their problems. An inquiry into the 1857 crisis found that the Bank of England had extended far too much credit to too many speculators-sound familiar? Had the bank been more prudent in 1855 and 1856, it probably would not have had to resort to the desperate measures that accelerated the crisis. But trying to get banks to honestly analyze their situation before a crisis hits … well, that has not gotten much easier in the ensuing 150 years.
I like it when history comes into the news and tries to give lessons AFTER a crisis. The better part of the article is where Marx predicts the bank failure before it happened.
Police in Hamburg have issued a warning to the perpetrators of the hazelnut heist not to consume any of the ill-gained goods, as the sacks containing the nuts were full of poisonous phosphate gas, Reuters news agency has reported.
The deadly gas is used to extend the shelf life of the nuts, which have to first be treated before they’re safe to munch on.
Deadly gas to extend shelf life? Sounds like a great trade-off.
