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- Mysterious text suggests Europeans knew of America long before Columbus set sail.
- An ancient underwater mystery: tens of thousands of wooden stakes poking up from British Columbia’s shoreline suggest Canada’s First Nation people used sophisticated fish harvesting techniques.
- Can we use the Sun to find aliens?
- NASA scientists predict settlements on moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
- Scientists find the first known planet to have survived the death of its star.
- Can we use a giant thruster to change Earth’s orbit?
- The spiritual consciousness of neuroscientist Christof Koch.
- Spooked Britons seek out paranormal tales amid Covid uncertainty.
- Clearing up some myths about Victorian ‘postmortem’ photographs.
- You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects.
- 12-year-old develops Slenderman phobia after seeing him in VR.
- Related: The Slender Man – the origin and evolution of a modern monster legend.
- The “mountain” of waste electronic and electrical equipment discarded in 2021 will weigh more than the Great Wall of China.
- Bank robbers in the Middle East reportedly cloned someone’s voice with deepfake technology to assist with $35 million heist.
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Quote of the Day:
The Internet and runaway AI will not have our value system. It may not care at all about humans. Why should it? We don’t care about ants or bugs. Most of us don’t even care about chickens or cows except when we want to eat them. This is a concern moving forward if we endow these entities not just with consciousness but intelligence. Is that really such a good idea?
