Today’s news briefs all have straightforward headlines. Weird, but straightforward.
- This private space mission aims to discover alien life on Venus.
- Related: Scientists appear to have found evidence for life on Venus.
- A ‘strange light bouncing up and down in the sky’: the history of UFO sightings in Alaska.
- Aliens, SETI, and the legacy of Frank Drake.
- How to think about weird psychedelic beings.
- To hallucinate or not: the big questions facing psychedelics at FENS 2022.
- Archaeologists unearth remains of 17th-century female ‘vampire’ in Poland, buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her big toe.
- Oldest human or just another ape? Debate erupts over 7m-year-old fossil.
- Celibacy has surprising evolutionary advantages, according to new research.
- Are there hard limits on human intelligence?
- Speaking about limited human intelligence: Alex Jones has meltdown in first interview since Sandy Hook lawsuit verdict.
- The ‘Satanic panic’ is back, and it is bipartisan.
- Axolotl weirdos can regrow their brains, and a new map reveals their regeneration secrets.
- The hunt for big hail: hailstones of record size are falling left and right, but there is suprisingly little research to explain why.
- What if the Carrington Event, the largest solar storm ever recorded, happened today?
Quote of the Day:
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
Gwendolyn Brooks
