TFW you feel like you’ve been hit by a bus *before* you walk into the pub…
- Researchers may have solved the historical mystery of reports of a ‘nocturnal sun‘.
- The crumbling ancient texts that may hold life-saving cures.
- This is the Muslim tradition of sci-fi and speculative fiction.
- Ancient Samurai scroll describes blinding powders, moonless battles.
- A critical look at the ‘alien mummy‘ investigation that has gone viral this week.
- Psychics who hear voices could be on to something.
- Psychedelic drugs enhance consciousness.
- LSD to be tested as a ‘cure for depression‘ in Britain for the first time.
- How a Soviet circus clown tried to prove that dogs can be psychic.
- Dogs notice when people sound sad.
- After nine launches already in 2017, it’s tough to be a critic of SpaceX.
- Greenland’s meltwater is raising sea levels at a growing rate.
- Remember when that spy was found dead, locked inside a sports bag, and we were told it wasn’t suspicious? Apparently it may actually be suspicious. Surprise!
- Norwegian raise cash to re-erect ‘penis’ rock damaged by vandals.
- Video of the Day: When fireflies meet LEDs, the result is a beautiful lightshow.
Quote of the Day:
We humans of the present are certainly not the summit of Creation. Species more intelligent than us will inhabit the earth. They might even appear quite soon. These days evolution is no longer driven by slow natural development, as Darwin described it, but by human culture. So a post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves. And I hope that our successors have a better understanding of the world.
Sir Martin Rees
