News Briefs 25-02-2015

I prefer a good conspiracy theory over bad science (and bad science journalism) every time!

• Trolling conspiracy theorists, for science.
• Experts using fake monsters to test how people report encounters with mythical creatures.
• Working class monster: how folklore became a class signifier.
• Ancient shrines used for divination found in Armenia.
• Manannán Mac Lir: Games of Thrones sculptor’s statue found.
• Early humans made animated art.
• Fairy castles in the sky.
• Climbers mystified by ‘bloodcurdling screaming’.
• Is this why quantum computers don’t work?
• Using sound shifts to trace language evolution.
• Four new giant Siberian craters found after a flash of light.
• Wise up. Artificial intelligence could kill us because we’re stupid, not because it’s evil, says expert.
• Voices of the dead: the strange origins of eye idols.
• Cathedral grave may have belonged to a medieval knight.
• How extreme isolation warps the mind.
• Precognition: the shape of things to come?

Quote of the Day:

Where’s your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison