What’s all this I’m hearing about a superb owl?
- Laser scans reveal Maya ‘megalopolis’ beneath Guatemalan jungle.
- Ancient grave with skeletons arranged in bizarre spiral formation discovered in Mexico.
- New study finds evidence that at the end of last Ice Age, fragments from a disintegrating comet set fire to 10% of the Earth’s surface(!!).
- No we’re not all doomed by the Earth’s magnetic field flip.
- Warp-speed evolution: Darwin thought evolution was too slow to change the environment on observable timescales. He was wrong.
- Skeptic analyses live-stream symposium announcing elongated Peruvian skull DNA results.
- UFO skeptic James Oberg discusses the recent NYT UFO story in new SETI Institute podcast.
- How UFO reports change with the technology of the times.
- The enduring appeal of conspiracy theories.
- ‘Slenderman’ stabbing teen sentenced to 40 years in mental institution.
- Spain cracks King Ferdinand’s 500-year-old secret code.
- Archaeologists uncover 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb of a female high official at Giza. Some video here.
- Video of the Day: Drunk History on the occult rocketeer – “Jack Parsons loved his sex magick“.
Quote of the Day:
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
