Today’s news briefs were compiled and written purely by human hands….
- Professors alarmed by new A.I. that writes essays about as well as dumb undergrads.
- The rise of archaeologists anonymous – censorship is driving dissident researchers underground.
- The strange and dangerous right-wing freakout over Ancient Apocalypse.
- Homo naledi may have lit fires in underground caves at least 236,000 years ago.
- Findings from 3,000-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck that carried tons of rare metals reveal a complex trade network that extended halfway across Asia.
- Tasmanian tiger: Remains of last thylacine found in cupboard after 85 years.
- Related: The ‘Tasmanian Tiger’ lives again, in colourised 4K video reconstruction.
- ‘My depression resisted treatment for a decade before I found ketamine. Then it was taken away‘.
- An online prophet claims to be a god. His followers keep getting arrested.
- Alex Jones has a playbook for hedging outrageous statements. Ye ignored it.
- QAnon’s Japan arm searched by police over obstruction of COVID-19 vaccinations.
- Panspermia: was terrestrial intelligence seeded by a cosmic gardener?
- Image of the Day: Apollo 13 movie poster vs Artemis 1 image.
Quote of the Day:
Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind, and what kind of soul you have now.
Marcus Aurelius
