You’re capable of great things…
- ‘Space archaeologist’ chooses Peru as the first country to be explored using satellites and her Global Xplorer platform, developed using a million dollar prize from TED.
- World’s oldest needle discovered in Siberian cave is at least 50,000 years old…but it wasn’t made by Homo sapiens.
- Does a major discovery show that the Greeks secretly sacrificed a teenage boy to Zeus?
- Campaigners demand that Britain return Easter Island statue from London Museum. And preferably without the bubblegum in its mouth.
- The ten biggest historical mysteries that will probably never be solved.
- Author/historian on the modern age: “We are quickly acquiring powers that were always thought to be divine“.
- CIA reveals Spacenet, an ‘AI in the sky‘ that could constantly monitor activity on Earth via high resolution satellites. I feel safer already.
- Mars scientists leave Hawaiian dome after a year in isolation.
- You wouldn’t be a happy camper if you relocated to Proxima Centauri’s planet.
- First test of Breakthrough Starshot interstellar probe highlights likely damage due to gas and dust.
- John Lennon, on his first acid trip.
- How the brain processes language on acid is a trip.
- The people who take ayahuasca in their search for truth.
- Millions of people at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance.
- The world’s first self-driving taxis hit the road in Singapore.
- Image of the Day: Stairway to heaven.
Thanks Kat.
Quote of the Day:
We are meant to be the ones who decide what happens to us: as voters, as consumers, as lovers. But that’s not true any more. We are what gives networks their power: they use our ideas of meaning to determine what will happen to us.