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- Spiritualism at Sutton Hoo: the supernatural elements Netflix’s The Dig left out of one of archaeology’s greatest stories.
- Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archaeologists in an Alaskan house pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades.
- Archaeologists unearth Neolithic graves at Stonehenge tunnel site.
- The terrifying warning lurking in Earth’s ancient rock record: Our planet’s climate is “an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks”.
- Stroke victims are to be given psychedelic drug DMT in groundbreaking study.
- A new tool to assess possible dream-related psi phenomena.
- Tracking QAnon – how Trump turned conspiracy-theory research upside down.
- This man plans to send a Flat-Earther into space to convince the rest to change.
- Could a human enter a black hole? Physicists propose two theories.
- What’s causing landslides on Mars?
- The myth and reality of the ‘super-soldier’.
- Can a robot pray? Does an AI have a soul? Advances in automata raise theological debates that will shape the secular world.
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Quote of the Day:
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder… Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
The new improved Monk Plus models were twice as powerful, had an entirely new multi-tasking Negative Capability feature that allowed them to hold up to 16 entirely different and contradictory ideas in memory simultaneously without generating any irritating system errors.
Douglas Adams (in ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’)
