The Butterfly Effect: Moon/Tiger/Temple Attack/N-Bomb/Punjab Riots
On Sunday, May 24th, a New Moon was in the sky, a Bengal tiger at the Memphis Zoo bit a zookeeper, a Sikh religious leader was killed in Austria, and then a nuclear bomb was exploded in North Korea and riots occurred in Punjab. Meanwhile, on May 24th, Malta Today reported that naturalists have recorded thousands of painted lady butterflies, above, ( Vanessa cardui ) currently migrating over the Maltese islands. Charles Hoy Fort, author, skeptic and iconoclast wrote about the interconnectedness of nature and the butterfly effect before the term was coined in his books New Lands and Wild Talents. In New Lands he makes reference to a migration of birds in New York that could cause a storm in China. Source Was Charles Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) ahead of his time? In Lo! , Fort wrote: Horses erect in a blizzard of frogs -- and the patter of worms on umbrellas. The hum of ladybirds in England -- the twang of a swarm of Americans, at Templemore, Ireland. The appearance of Cagliostro...