News Briefs 08-02-2018

John Anthony West, riding shotgun with Starman en route to the stars on their Tesla is just the way I want to imagine him right now. Ad Astra.

• Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have also killed all the Krakens.
• Tracing the looooooooooooooong lineage of cockroaches.
• Turns out rats are so sociable, they do each other favors and cash in on IOUs.
• Neanderthals used fire to perfect hardwood tools 170,000 years ago.
• Ticking time bomb of mercury concealed beneath Earth’s permafrost.
• One of SETI’s founders says it’s high time for a rebrand –maybe it’s also high time for a change in methodology?
• For artist and alleged abductee David Huggins, losing his virginity was literally out of this world.
• Making sense of the paranormal.
• The Victorian woman who drew pictures of ghosts.
• Chicagoans and University psychologist speculate on Mothman.
• In Washington, Bigfoot eludes official state recognition yet(i) again.
• How a 1924 Bigfoot battle in Mt. St. Helen helped launch a legend.
• This new Winter Olympics pavillion is possibly the darkest place on Earth.
• Tangentially Speaking talks to Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections.
• How to become a centaur.
• Red Pill of the Day: Dinosaur lady of South Carolina avoids jail –yes, it did feel good writing that headline.

Quote of the Day:

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

John Anthony West