If you go into the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise…

• New video of Area 51 provides the most recent look into the secret flight test base.
• The USA’s Commander-in-Chief still doesn’t give a damn about UFOs.
• Atheists still believe in the supernatural, new report finds.
• The frightening supernatural story of the black bird of Chernobyl.
• Prehistoric people built artificial islands in Scottish lochs 5,500 years ago.
• Pot was smoked at funerals in Asia 2500 years ago.
• For more on the use of drugs in ancient cultures around the world, be sure to grab a copy of Paul Devereux’s The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia.
• Scientists used to summarily reject the idea that viruses could cause cancer – and then Sarah Stewart blew their damn minds.
• FDA stops fecal transplant trials after the death of a patient.
• India plans to launch its own space station around 2030.
• The cypress that may have inspired Dr Seuss’s The Lorax has toppled down.
• Humans are still evolving: how modern life is transforming the human skeleton.
• Is consciousness a fundamental quality of the universe?

Thanks to @AnomalistNews.

Quote of the Day:

If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the moon?’ I would have said, ‘No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the moon, I cried.

Alan Shepard (Apollo 14 astronaut)