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Category Archives: tourism

Haiku Flowers

Research is ongoing to determine whether these are the work of an avant-garde biochemist, or simply proof of Nature’s simplicity and beauty.

Echo: The NumeNaut’s New Zoo

Five fine specimens, as described below

The Shivering Lily of the Nabir River Basin

I am one of perhaps a handful of Westerners who can claim to bear witness to the terrible spectacle of the Shivering Lily.
My man Phuad and I were tracking rumors of an aquatic man – a prehistoric “Gill Man” – that the natives of the Nabir River Basin claim to haunt the most remote regions [...]

Ancestor Spirits and the Rites of the Night Octopus

In certain sections of tropical Baro-Kar, the beach-dwelling natives revere the remarkable creature known as the “night octopus,” or in their own tongue, the “mulluk-tuk”.
The night octopus is a small purple cephalopod principally distinguished from its mundane kin by its small air bladder, located on the creature’s dorsal region. This singular gift of Mother Nature [...]

Book Your Ticket

According to this article in International Leisure World (”Russia’s Annual Catalogue of Luxury Travel”), the Arend M. Agter Clinic in the Cape Town suburb of Newlands has begun offering guided vacations into your own memories. They don’t specify what technologies are being used (hypnosis, lucid dreaming, deep brain stimulation, SP-17?) I wonder whether [...]