Intermittent reminder that moral panics are nearly always stupid…
- UFO hunters built an open-source AI system to scan the skies for strange aerial phenomena.
- Related: Searching for saucers – here’s a list of scientifically oriented UFO projects.
- A meteorite may have crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home, police say.
- The mummy’s curse might be real — but it’s caused by a fungus.
- Standing stones and bones: archaeologists excavate Neolithic cattle cult site in Saudia Arabia with massive stone structures.
- We don’t want chatbots to come off as people: the dangers of dishonest anthropomorphism.
- We just translated chimpanzee language – they’re talking about snakes.
- What stories of scary plants and other botanical horrors say about us.
- Cannabis and schizophrenia: the increasingly important question about the potential harms of marijuana.
- X-Ants: A mutation has turned ants into parasites in one generation.
- Billionaire Peter Thiel says he’s freezing his body after death just in case. Why wait Peter?
- Earth could soon be more detectable by aliens, study says.
- Archaeologists digging in the deserts of Oman have discovered a mysterious monument they’re calling the ‘Arabian Stonehenge’.
Quote of the Day:
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Richard Feynman
