Yesterday I talked about the "gold bug," the little cupriavidus metallidurans bacterium that literally eats toxic metals and poops out 24 karat gold. There, I raised the possibility that such a phenomenon represented an alchemical technology that, with "enough money and manpower" could be turned to more industrial scale "production." As I also noted in yesterday's blog, such a technology would likely have been developed in secret, since to admit it openly would collapse the price of gold, whereas a secret deployment of it would allow the creation of secret reserves as a backing for a whole … [Read more...]
NEW BOOK AT NEW PUBLISHER! AND OTHER NEWS…
Hi everyone! My apologies for being absent the last month and a half or so, but I was finishing my new book. It's now at a new publisher. All of my books in the past have been published by Adventures Unlimited Press, but this new one will be put out by Adam Parfrey's Feral House, which is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Adam tells me that it will be pre-released in ca. February of 2009, and actual release will be ca. April 2009. The subject? Well, I'll let the title speak for itself: The Philosophers' Stone: The American "Gold," The Soviet "Mercury," and the Nazi "Serum": The … [Read more...]