The following pages contain various FATE Magazine articles by Loyd Auerbach that are available for download. The articles are unedited versions of selected, articles and many of the pieces that appeared in his column “Psychic Frontiers” from 1991 through the end of 2004.
Here are some choice scenes from the city of Beppu’s hihōkan, which apparently closed (but you can still tour on YouTube for posterity’s sake). During its sexy heyday, visitors could behold see-through wombs, pinnipeds mid-coitus, and an animatronic display of Snow White being pleasured by all seven dwarves while the Evil Queen peeps voyeuristically and Prince Charming watches on in horror.
Snake venom is not something one intentionally consumes — if anything, we tend to flee from snakes at any cost. But say you are at a rave and someone tosses you a pill touted to contain dried snake venom. From a biochemistry perspective, is it possible to use snake venom as a recreational drug?
Ever wonder what would happen to paintings if we didn’t preserve them? We take for granted that so many pieces of art have been preserved in museums for hundreds of years and never stop to think about how beat up they would become otherwise. Artist Valerie Hegarty illustrates what would have happened to famous masterpieces if they were say, left out in the woods to get destroyed by woodpeckers, or tossed over a waterfall.
CONSPIRAPORN! 