Feel free to ignore today’s news briefs and go outside and take in the beauty of the natural world instead!
- The underwater search for an alien meteor.
- Also: Scientists are hunting for alien objects in the ocean, and they’ve just found something.
- Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0, with our mind remaining a mystery.
- Did Indiana Jones help or hurt archaeology?
- 10 temples, tombs and monuments that align with the summer solstice.
- Lost Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle.
- Unicorns in southern Africa: The fascinating story behind one-horned creatures in rock art.
- New images show Chinese spy balloons over Asia.
- Declassified US intelligence report finds no evidence of coronavirus ‘lab leak’ from Wuhan institute. (Read the report at the Black Vault.)
- Ex-DoD intelligence officer Luis Elizondo’s UFO claims sparked security concerns and confusion, Pentagon memos reveal.
- Video of the Day: A reminder that it’s not the sky that’s rotating.
Quote of the Day:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan
