News Briefs 23-02-2015

Mind: blown.

• Chilling interrogation tapes from Slenderman stabbing case released.
• Lizard people: the greatest political conspiracy ever created.
• C.T. scan of statue of Buddha shows it has the body of a 12th century Chinese monk sealed inside.
• Bulgarian bones could be those of John the Baptist, claim scientists.
• Drones and satellites spot lost civilizations in unlikely places.
• Aliens or Atlantis? Who made Costa Rica’s stone spheres? (video)
• Mayan mural reveals ancient photobomb.
• Mohenjo-Daro: An ancient nuclear mystery.
• John Dee was the 16th century’s real-life Gandalf.
• Here’s what happened when a 63-year-old man took shrooms…for science!
• Man gets mugged, man becomes mathematical genius.
• Mice get freakishly large brains thanks to human DNA. No mouse mugging involved.
• The quantum mechanics of fate.
• Could dark matter cause some mass extinctions and geologic upheavals?
• UFO pictured in the skies above Cornwall leaves experts baffled. Define ‘experts’…
• ‘Firefly’ starship to blaze a trail to Alpha Centauri?
• Winds blasted out by giant black holes are strong enough to stunt the birth of new stars.
• Joe Rogan discusses invisible aliens, string theory and collective DMT dreams.
• Video of the Day: Meet Tomatan, a wearable robot that feeds you tomatoes as you run. Asimov’s up in heaven wondering where it all went horribly wrong.

Quote of the Day:

Sadly, modern society has lost touch with the power of myth. We now use the word as a synonym for falsehood rather than as an expression of eternal truth.

Clyde W. Ford