In case you missed it: Darklore 9 is now available (featuring articles from Alan Moore, Robert Schoch, Mike Jay and others!). You can grab the paperback or limited edition hardcover from Amazon.com.
- Evidence of 9000-year-old stone houses found on Australian island.
- Studying the spurious speculation surrounding the secrets of bog bodies.
- A drone’s-eye-view of the pyramids of Nubia.
- Labour Day was concocted by a secret society.
- That time Canada almost botched the end of World War II by signing on the wrong line.
- Asteroid named after Queen’s Freddie Mercury to celebrate the singer’s 70th birthday. Bit greedy, the guy already has a planet named after him!
- Making the case for manned missions to Venus.
- The perils of Proxima b.
- Genesis Project: Should we gift the cosmos with life?
- Ants trapped in nuclear bunker without a queen have developed their own, doomed, society.
- Why stop at five senses? Tech is letting us hack our brains to give us ‘superpowers’.
- The world’s great religions and spiritual journeys emerged from dreams and visions. Neurochemistry tells us how.
- The Rune Soup podcast talks to Dr. Penny Sartori about the near-death experience.
- For most healthcare providers, marijuana is an afterthought. So why is it a Schedule 1 substance?
- A pattern in the stratosphere just reversed for the first time in 60 years.
- Footage claims to show a Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) roaming Adelaide Hills.
- Drone drops fireballs from the sky. This is covered under your second amendment, right American friends?
- Can science ‘enrich the understanding but rob the imagination‘?
- Biohacker swallows his friend’s poop to replace his microbiome. FOR SCIENCE!
- Headline of the Day: Man in Sweden went on a rampage with a dead badger after having been turned away from McDonalds.
Thanks @ForteanUK and @UnlikelyWorlds.
Quote of the Day:
Evolution isn’t about truth, it’s about making kids. Every bit of information that you process costs calories, meaning that’s more food you need to kill and eat. So an organism that sees all of reality would never be more fit than one tuned only to see what it needs to survive.
