Good luck decoding English, alien eavesdroppers…
- F-22s intercepted a ‘spherical object’ off Hawaii in latest balloon chase.
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence to get a boost from this colossal radio array in New Mexico.
- 25,000-year-old human DNA has been isolated from a Paleolithic pendant found in a Siberian cave.
- Stone tools reflect three waves of migration of the earliest Homo sapiens into Europe.
- ‘Oh excellent air bag!’: science, poetry, consciousness expansion and the discovery of laughing gas.
- The elusive, maddening mystery of the Bell Witch: A classic ghost story has something to say about America—200 years ago, 100 years ago, and today.
- Scientists find link between photosynthesis and ‘fifth state of matter’.
- Gravity anomalies lead to discovery of vast unknown mountain ranges under the ocean.
- Why the myth that we only use 10 per cent of our brain needs to die.
- Effective Altruists want to engineer people to sleep less so they can work more. Yay?
- China wants to build 3D-printed Moon bases out of lunar soil.
- Image of the Day: Earth is an alien planet, we just get used to the weird stuff and forget it.
Quote of the Day:
Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, “that’s a bird, baby, that’s a bird,” instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent trans-formative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words. This is a bird, this is a house, this is the sky, and we seal ourselves in within a linguistic shell of dis-empowered perception.
Terence McKenna
