Welcome to Spring/Autumn (apply hemispheric orientation as appropriate)!
- The James Webb Space Telescope will search for a ‘second Earth’ among the weird habitable worlds of the TRAPPIST-1 solar system.
- Did the Oscars just prove that we are living in a computer simulation?
- Discovery of giant neuron might explain how the brain creates consciousness.
- A vast network of tunnels lies hidden beneath the city of Chicago.
- The Inca Empire constructed over 40,000km of roads and superhighways in just 100 years.
- Fabled ‘Atlantis alloy‘ recovered in greater numbers from ancient shipwreck.
- How brain scientists forgot that brains have owners.
- Mars needs…lawyers?
- Was ancient Earth surrounded by a solid shell? New theory suggests plate tectonics began later than previously thought.
- Mysteries of the first ever map of the North Pole.
- A huge crater in Siberia is getting bigger.
- The strange McGurk Effect: What you see can affect what you hear.
- ‘Materialist parapsychologist’ and ex-Project Stargate head Dr Ed May slams Dean Radin on the latest Skeptiko podcast.
- Girlfriend of dead UFO conspiracy theorist is now a suspect.
- Chilean police report paranormal activity while investigating a domestic disturbance.
- Nicaraguan woman burnt to death on a fire during exorcism ritual.
- The blood of dragons may be the key to destroying antibiotic resistance. Man, fantasy quests have really gone downhill with their storylines…
- Updating conspiracy theory: The rise of weaponised narrative and manipulation via social networks.
Thanks to @Gordon_White and @AnomalistNews.
Quote of the Day:
Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups…So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
Philip K. Dick
