Is this your idea of ‘getting back to normal’, America?
- Bolsonaro’s plan to send in the Brazilian military to stop illegal deforestation of the Amazons was as successful as his COVID strategy.
- Amateur astronomer spots a rare visible nova.
- France has underestimated impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia, research finds. What’s French for Kaiju?
- Multiple destroyers were swarmed by mysterious ‘drones’ off California over numerous nights. Drones, riiiiiiight…
- Book review: Visitors from Lanulos.
- Where are all the aliens? Maybe trapped in underground oceans. I played that DLC of Mass Effect 3!
- Against Everyone with Conner Habib talks to Diana Walsh Pasulka about aliens, technology and A.I. as a mirror.
- This has got to be the most boring UFO-related webpage ever designed.
- Reading minds with ultrasound: Caltech’s new brain-machine interface.
- The science of terrible men: the pioneers of social genetics were racists douchebags – should we give up on the science they founded altogether?
- Turns out the 800,000-year-old Gran Dolina boy was actually a girl.
- Stuff keeps getting older. And by ‘stuff’ I mean the world’s earliest stone technologies.
- Scientists discover ‘zombie’ genes in brain that come to life after death. They should name it the Abby-Normal gene…
- The near magical mystery of quasi-particles.
- Parrots were removed from UK safari after teaching each other how to swear and laugh about it. I heard the birds just signed a deal with Netflix.
- Red Pill of the Day: He allegedly raped a teen and lived under her bed for three weeks. And now time for my daily alcoholic interlude…
Thanks to Greg and Hans Delbruck.
Quote of the Day:
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
