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- Has the ancient writing system known as ‘Linear Elamite’ finally been deciphered?
- Advanced technologies used in new phase of Antikythera excavation.
- New push to bring the Rosetta Stone back to Egypt amid ‘awakening’ on colonial loot.
- Psychedelic trips and near-death experiences both result in strikingly similar changes in mindset.
- Related: Researchers determine which hallucinogenic ‘trip’ is most similar to the near-death experience.
- Why and how do we dream?
- We are building a ‘species-level brain’ with big data and ubiquitous sensors.
- The identical twins who discovered their secret sibling, after a New York adoption agency deliberately split them up in the 1960s as part of a controversial study.
- Doppelgängers don’t just look alike – they also share DNA: new research finds genetic and lifestyle similarities between unrelated pairs of “virtual twins”.
- Mama mia: library’s prized Galileo manuscript turns out to be a clever forgery.
- Possessed of ancient roots, tattoos have in recent years gone from being taboo to part of the social fabric. Will they now finally be accepted as art?
- Related: Sacred ink – the magical power of tattoos.
- Also: Scientists explore chemistry of tattoo inks amid growing safety concerns.
- Congress admits that UFOs are not ‘man-made’, and says ‘threats’ are increasing ‘exponentionally’.
- Is that a Facehugger?! How the monster from Alien turned up in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Australian farmers keep finding SpaceX debris that crashed down on their land.
Quote of the Day:
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Ezra Pound
