May this be over soon!

• SpaceX successfully lands a Starship test flight.
• This is a –rather pedantic– critique of Avi Loeb for daring to have suggested Oumuamua was an artificial object of alien origin.
• In contrast, here’s my good friend Susan Demeter explaining why she believes Oumuamua is a true UFO.
• And if you can’t get enough cosmic witchery, here’s Susan being interviewed in the podcast Six Degrees of John Keel.
• If the Pentagon takes UFOs seriously, should Wall Street follow their example?
• The strange story of the Native American ghost dance.
• How holograms, deepfakes and AR are raising the dead.
• Tangentially Speaking interviews Eric Berkowitz, author of the book Dangerous Ideas, about the problems of trying to censor fake news and misinformation.
• Inside the spirituality ‘cult’ whose members allege sexual and financial exploitation.
• Into the mystical and inexplicable world of dowsing.
• ‘Mother trees’ are intelligent: they learn and remember —“why didn’t you call me on my sproutday? Are you still dating that nice shrub? Are you getting enough phosphorus?”
• Royal marines are performing military drills using jetpacks.
• It looks like America’s first people were island hoppers.
• Why Dunbar’s numbers might just be a modern myth.
• Here’s seven of the weirdest museums in the world you can visit.
• Red Pill of the Day: A farmer moved a 200-year-old stone, and with it the French-Belgian border.

Thanks to Greg

Quote of the Day:

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Robert Anton Wilson