Hope you’ve got plenty of reading time on your hands today…you may need it.
- Ancient hominids may have been seafarers.
- Green sea slug is part animal, part plant. In other words, the ultimate meal?
- Monkeys and chimps could talk. So why don’t they?
- Refuting the theory that the Maya civilisation collapsed because they exhausted their natural resources.
- Avatar and the ayahuasca realms.
- Michael Tymn interviews pioneering researcher into altered states of consciousness, Dr Charles Tart. Here’s the Daily Grail interview from way back as well.
- Oliver Stone’s Secret History to put Hitler, Stalin “in context” by revealing things such as American corporate funding of the Nazis.
- The top five unsolved brain mysteries.
- Google Earth images confirm mythological meteor impact.
- Sacked government drugs advisor Prof. David Nutt creates independent drug group. And, the grapevine tells me, may be interested in Paul Devereux’s book The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia (Amazon US and UK).
- Aircraft contrails can become clouds.
- Woolworths stores in the UK were laid out in accordance with the wishes of our alien overlords?
- You won’t find consciousness in the brain.
- The not-so-secrets of the Masons.
- The six stupidest things ever done with historical treasures.
- This year’s Edge question, answered by numerous luminaries: “How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?”
- Bill Bryson explores the beginnings of science in his latest book, Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society.
- Are you ready for a future in which telepathy machines replace your phone?
- Image of the day: the Big Z, inside the ‘Osiris Shaft’ beneath Giza.
- The funniest thing you’ll read this month: Avatar: The Metacontextual Edition (NSFW language and Avatar spoilers).
- And a few scientific papers/conjectures to finish, starting with a classification system for the multiverses.
- Was the inner-Solar System originally on fire?
- “Compatibility of Contemporary Physical Theory With Personality Survival” (PDF). A work in progress by Professor Henry Stapp.
Thanks Baldrick, Lee, George David and MacaPaca.
Quote of the Day:
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
