News Briefs 20-12-2017

It’s the Wednesday news briefs, and we’re still asking for reader support to get us through 2018. Slip us some cash and we promise we’ll shut up…

• The most futuristic predictions that came true in 2017.
• Neuroscience has a lot to learn from Buddhism.
• Why people hear voices when climbing Mount Everest.
• Unsolved science mysteries from 2017.
• What we’ve learned from 60 years of U.S.-funded UFO probes.
• Someone explain to me the alien alloys before I f**king explode.
• Astronomer says ‘UFO’ that Navy airmen spotted was probably something else.
• NASA reveals it has started planning a 2069 mission to Alpha Centauri.
• North Korea’s elite are injecting themselves with gold.
• Our brains sometimes create ‘false memories’ – but science suggests we could be better off this way.
• MK-ULTRA in Canada: Trudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims.
• Laser-driven technique for creating fusion without radioactive fuel elements is now within reach, say researchers.

Quote of the Day:

I’ll tell you who the threat to the status quo is in this country. It’s us. That’s why they…keep you afraid…impotent.

Bill Hicks