Omicron is NOT like the flu.
- The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts.
- The candle was already dim: Study finds rationality declined decades ago.
- Can intelligence be digitized? Our AI systems might recognize new knowledge from superior intelligences even if we cannot reproduce their creations.
- The FBI once confiscated a student’s paper for designing a nuclear bomb.
- 5G will not mess with your brain, but it could seriously mess with your air travel plans.
- Homo Toxicus: Chemical production has exceeded the ‘safe operating space for humanity’.
- Has a new experiment just proven the quantum nature of gravity?
- What is spacetime really made of?
- But what is astrophysics, anyway?
- British police force shares array of bizarre UFO and alien reports from 2021.
- Image of the Day: Uluru waterfalls.
- Tangentially Speaking interviews Harley Rustad, author of Lost in the Valley of Death, a book about living a life of adventure and spiritual seeking in the age of Instagram.
- A century after its discovery, archeologists realize they found an ancient beer bong.
- Mysterious rods found in 5,500-year-old tomb prove to be earliest drinking straws.
- Why is MDMA the horny recreational drug?
- Red Pill of the Day: Some tiny frogs have tarantulas as bodyguards. Coming soon to Disney+: The Frogfather.
Thanks to Greg.
Quote of the day:
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
