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A video circulating online, purporting to depict an "alien" from Romania, actually depicts a human child suffering from an extremely rare genetic disorder known as "Harlequin Fetus." This serious condition, occurring once in half a million births, leads to deformities and extremely thin skin, significantly reducing the newborn's chances of survival. Only a handful of people with this syndrome live in the United States, and they endure demanding daily care. Despite their dramatic circumstances, these girls' stories demonstrate remarkable strength and determination in battling the disease. For some time now, a "delicious" (or maybe?) video has been circulating online, supposedly depicting an "alien," filmed in Romania. However, it actually depicts a human child afflicted with a genetic disorder known as "Harlequin Fetus" (scientists call it "Autosomatic Recession" or, in Latin,  Harlequin Ichthyosis  ). On the right - me...

Do all these carnivores fit together? Tyrannosaurus rex Height: 12 to 15 meters Weight: 6 tons Fear factor: fangs up to 40 cm long Lived: 65 million years ago Where: North America Gigantosaurus Height: approx. 14 meters Weight: 8 tons Fear factor: teeth up to 20 cm long Lived: 95 million years ago Where: present-day Argentina Spinosaurus Height: up to 17 meters Weight: 8 tons Fear Factor: Long, crocodile-like jaw Lived: 100 million years ago Where: present-day Argentina, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria Illustrations by Joe Tucciarone However, among the longest dinosaurs, a vegetarian emerged victorious. Herbivorous sauropods eclipsed carnivorous theropods; today, most scientists believe that the longest dinosaur was the Argentinosaurus. Length: up to 37 meters Weight: 100 tons Fear Factor: ???? Lived: 65 million years ago Where: South America Paleontologists only have fossils to determine dinosaur size, and these are often damaged or incomplete. Bones are often missing from numerous speci...

In recent years, paleontology has yielded fascinating discoveries about dinosaurs, including a new study confirming that Spinosaurus is the largest known carnivorous dinosaur. First discovered in 1915 by Ernst Stromer, this bipedal predator, which lived about 100 million years ago, dethroned Giganotosaurus, whose remains were discovered 11 years ago. Scientists emphasize that despite the lack of complete fossils, the new analysis suggests Spinosaurus may have been longer and heavier than the previous king of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex. The age of dinosaurs ended millions of years ago, but paleontologists are still trying to understand the enormous diversity and diverse immensity of these creatures. Described in last month's report, Spinosaurus is now officially the largest carnivorous dinosaur known to science. This bipedal beast effectively burst onto the fossil scene in 1915, when a specimen was presented by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer. He concluded that it was a therop...

A study conducted between 1880 and 1882 by Sir William Flinders Petrie showed that there was no spatial relationship between distances and pyramid directions, or indeed anything else. However, theories that have since developed have suggested that the spatial relationships of the pyramids reflect the straight-line alignment of Orion's Belt and the orbital paths of Mercury, Mars, and Venus. Other theories have suggested that the circumference of the Great Pyramid, or the Pyramid of Cheops, of 36,525 inches corresponds to the number of days in 100 years and the number of books containing ancient wisdom attributed to the god Thoth. The pyramid inch, the basic unit used to measure pyramids, is only a fraction of an inch. Webb said initiatives like the University of Chicago's Giza Mapping Project reveal strange alignments inside the pyramids that could shed new light on theories about alignments. "Computer visualization of the pyramids' interiors and their chambers could re...

Archaeologists have discovered that measurements of Egyptian pyramids taken more than 100 years ago were surprisingly precise. A paper from the Queensland University of Technology examines the study of the pyramids of Cheops, Khafre, and Mycerinus, which were built around 2600 BC. Study co-author Robert Webb emphasizes that despite advances in technology, we still don't know the answer to their astronomical connections. However, new technologies, such as laser scanning and computer modeling, may yield new discoveries about the pyramids' mysteries. Archaeologists who measured the Egyptian pyramids more than 100 years ago were surprisingly thorough, as a historical review shows. A paper posted online by the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) analyzes the major projects investigating the pyramids of Cheops, Khafre, and Mycerinus, built around 2600 BC south of present-day Cairo. "They weren't measuring the pyramids from a distance; their measurements were very...

The Pentagon is planning an innovative project to create an army of cyberinsects that could be remotely controlled to search areas and detect explosives. Scientists at the Defense Research Agency (Darpa) intend to leverage the evolution of insects such as dragonflies and moths by integrating specialized microsystems into their bodies during the pupal stage. Although the idea is controversial and resembles previous failed attempts at remotely controlling insects, Darpa believes that new technologies will enable the creation of hybrid insects capable of transmitting data and locating targets. Pentagon scientists are planning to create an army of cyberinsects that could be controlled over long distances, scour areas for explosives, and send messages. The concept involves implanting a microsystem within the insect's body, while it's still in the pupal stage, that would integrate with the insect's body, enabling subsequent control. Experts told the BBC that such ideas are entire...

And if such a process is possible, then increasing compliance results from the experimental results, then the subjective experimenter effect grows in strength in the form of increasing expectation of what the experiment will suggest. In this way, the consistency of reality increases. And there is no other way to know whether experimental data are irrefutable or have succumbed to subjective contamination—which, of course, makes the "material" world of science essentially a mental model of the world, experienced as a manipulated reality. Indeed, particle theory takes this process into account. The "observer effect" suggests that for subatomic phenomena to become "reality," the "observation" must be performed by a form of consciousness. And it is this consciousness that defines what reality is. Of course, science would suggest that the whole idea is rubbish. However, scientists would use the idea without exploiting it. In their reality, ...

By firmly linking theory to data, a degree of subjectivity is based on the objective facts we observe. Is it possible that these "facts" can then be manipulated to give a false impression of the reality we observe? Certain areas of paranormal research suggest this is indeed the case. The idea of the "experimenter effect" in particular could have this value. Essentially, the theory is based on a person's expectations of what the outcome might be—for example, how reality will behave.

The probability of correctness is assessed by peers, and the theory is then pushed for acceptance. It is most likely true that nothing has a single, specific cause. We observe the world in action through our senses, experiences, and rationality. This seems simple and progressive. But when we attempt to think through theories about it, a given reality is open to multiple causes

The world they think they know collides with a world they don't think they know, but they do think about it. And these two opposing influences don't seem to align. The problem is specialization. A specialist reflects only on his or her own area of expertise, thereby discounting uncomfortable realities, such as a complete lack of understanding of reality. And this situation only gets worse.

Given the complexities of modern science, the topic of paranormal phenomena and their relationship to reality has become increasingly controversial. This article examines how material sciences attempt to understand the world while simultaneously ignoring the esoteric forces that can influence our perception of reality. The author emphasizes that scientific observations and theories can be subjectively manipulated, leading to questions about the true nature of reality. Is our understanding of the world merely a mental model, or does a deeper, unseen dimension exist? It's been said that we live in a difficult reality. Material sciences have basically developed it to know what it's like. Well, maybe not entirely. At best, they can be said to understand the world well enough to discount the esoteric forces at work. Oh, sorry, they can't do that. Their own theories about the subatomic world reveal a myriad of esoteric forces operating beneath the surface of the mater...

**** The sound of shattering glass and a crash woke me up. The noise was right by my ear. I jumped out of bed and looked around in the darkness. Everything was quiet. I turned on the light. The clock read 4:30 a.m. Outside, it was pitch black. I couldn’t see the reflection of the room in the window. That’s when it hit me—the window was broken. Sure enough, shards lay on the floor. “How?” I asked myself, but in the next second, a brick flew through the window and slammed into the wall half a meter from my head. I jumped to the side and looked around, realizing it was already the second one: the first, which had broken the window, lay in the center of the room; the second near the wall. Of course, our neighborhood wasn’t the quietest, and we had our share of hoodlums… But all that seemed trivial compared to the fact that I lived on the seventh floor. A third brick flew through the window at an angle. I stepped back toward the side wall. It passed right in front of my nose. There was no t...

Two years ago, my grandmother rented out a room in her apartment. The first and last tenant was a young 22-year-old woman who was studying at university. My grandmother quickly found common ground with the tenant and tried to help her as if she were her own granddaughter. The tenant was very striking in appearance – long black hair, black eyes (as they say, coal-black), black eyebrows and eyelashes. Her face, in contrast, seemed unusually pale. Their first week passed in friendship and harmony. A week later, one night, my grandmother heard unusual sounds coming from the tenant's room (loud snoring, whistling, smacking sounds) – the kind young girls usually make when sleeping. At first, she thought there was a man in the room besides the girl. She decided to check it out and went to the door, intending to wake the tenant and reprimand her for the presence of strangers in the room. When the grandmother pulled the handle, the door was unlocked, and she peered into the room. An old wo...

**** On the evening when I met my friend, my group and I were wandering around an abandoned construction site. They say that about two years earlier, the bodies of five students had been found here. After that, the authorities fenced off the concrete shell of the building with a tall fence and put up a booth for an eternally drunk watchman. But in exchange for the gurgling opportunity to stay drunk for one more night, the watchman let people like us through—those who wanted to enjoy the romance of an abandoned building and scare the girls a bit. In the building, covered in graffiti from basement to roof, bottles left over from previous parties clinked in every corner. Local homeless people collected them; the watchman regularly let them in as well, to spend the night. Other than partying students and vagrants, no one went into this building. Or so we thought. “… Kostik, there’s a person sitting there,” Marina said, her eyes wide with fear, dust marks on her blouse. “In the attic, in th...

In 2000, a truly terrifying experience happened to my family and me. I was 10 years old at the time. My parents bought a four-room apartment, number 103, on the ninth floor. We'd been living with my grandmother before, but we'd always wanted our own place. So when my parents saw the ad for this apartment, they were immediately hooked. The apartment was absolutely enormous—we were all so thrilled to have it sold to us that we didn't even notice the suspiciously low price, which, compared to other apartments in the building, was almost half that. I have my own room in this apartment, which I was incredibly happy about. My parents were also quite happy with the purchase. But things weren't so great with the residents of the building. There were constant complaints about us—sometimes they'd say something was stomping around on the floor in our apartment, sometimes they'd hear bloodcurdling screams coming from our apartment all night long. The police even came to our...

**** One day, on an utterly ordinary and unremarkable day, I was lying on my couch at home, watching TV, puffing on a cigarette and holding a can of cold beer in my hand. My wife was at work until six, the kids were at kindergarten. I had a day off and decided to relax from the morning on—I got up, washed up, went to the store, and now I was lying there, enjoying my rest to the fullest. On TV they were showing a replay of a football championship match, Russia versus the Czech Republic. And there I was, stretched out on the couch, relaxed, bothering no one, when suddenly I heard footsteps on the floor above, in the neighbors’ apartment. Don’t think I panicked or got scared because of some stupid footsteps. At that moment, they made me angry. I was exhausted after what felt like endless days working on a rotational shift and I just wanted to unwind. Naturally, any extraneous noises irritated me. But was I really going to go to the neighbors over that? That’s what I decided then, and I ke...

After my divorce from my husband, I rented a one-room studio apartment. While moving my things in, I noticed some markings—triangular ones on the ceiling, round ones on the floor. Ignoring them, I tore them off and threw them away. At night, I heard various noises and rustling sounds in that apartment. For a while, I attributed them to the nervous shock of that period. But one night, I was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. I checked all the windows—nothing. Entering the bathroom, I saw a shattered mirror on the floor, but both the screw and the frame were intact... The next episode wasn't long in coming. That afternoon, I received a call from the company located below my apartment, saying I was flooding them. When I ran home from work, I discovered the kitchen faucet was running full blast, and water was already flowing from the kitchen into the living room and hallway. Meanwhile, the apartment was filled with a very strong odor, and I couldn't figure out where it was c...

This happened three years ago. My friend Sonya and her boyfriend rented an apartment. They found it through a newspaper ad and moved in right away. The house was near the cemetery on Bogdanka Street. The view from the balcony looked out onto a field, and beyond that was the cemetery. My boyfriend often went to Moscow to work, and while he was gone, my friend and I would get together. We usually stayed overnight there, as for some reason she was afraid to be alone in the apartment. There was nothing particularly alarming about the apartment—it was on the second floor, only one room was rented out, and the other was locked. The bathroom and toilet were separate, and the kitchen was small. There were also a lot of mirrors in the apartment: three in the hallway, and another one in the bathroom, in the living room, and in the kitchen. One day, after another get-together, everyone left, and Sonya was left to spend the night alone. She begged for someone to stay, but no one could, including m...

** I live in a simple five-story building in Moscow, in apartment number 47. Naturally, next to me is the apartment with a slightly crooked yellow plate on its door bearing the number 48. It is this apartment that I want to talk about. And no, to answer the obvious question — as far as I know, no one has ever died in this apartment during its forty-year history. The people who lived there never complained of strange noises, visions, or chairs sliding across the floor on their own. By all appearances, it is an average one-room apartment with all the amenities, a perfect home for single young people (or not so young). In fact, even among the local residents, it doesn’t have a bad reputation — there are no tales or legends of a “cursed apartment.” If I think about it, I’m probably the first and only person to notice that something is wrong in apartment number 48 — and even then, only because I live right next door. I’ve lived in this building for twenty-eight years, and during that time, ...

*** This happened about six years ago. I had just returned from the army, my head full of plans for the future. First thing I decided to do was move in with my father in a bigger city and start a new life with new opportunities. The only problem was my stepmother. Can you imagine the stereotypical evil stepmother from movies and books? Well—that was her. I know it’s hard to believe, since she had no objective reason to hate me, but there it was. So my search for housing became even more intense. Finally, success! I found a place that suited me in every way. There was just one snag: the landlady asked me to wait two weeks before moving in. Everything was agreed upon, the deal was basically done—except that I’d have to endure the spawn of hell (my stepmother) for two more weeks. I decided to move somewhere—anywhere, really. At that moment I would have gladly moved into the ninth circle of hell if they could guarantee my stepmother didn’t work there. I quickly found an ad and went to see ...