Today’s news briefs are exactly what they seem…
- Stonehenge before the Druids: the clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at the famed megalithic site.
- Climate change toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?
- Cannibalism was a common funerary rite in northwest Europe near the end of the last ice age.
- Five creepy tales of real-world zombies.
- Testing a time-jumping, multiverse-killing, consciousness-spawning theory of reality.
- Could we find alien life via its pollution?
- Why we should take UFOs seriously: whether you call them UFOs, UAPs or flying saucers, Canada should treat them as scientific phenomena, not pop-cultural quackery.
- The magic spells that herded medieval bees.
- Why the free will debate hinges on intent.
- Did Friedrich Nietzsche’s own philosophy drive him insane?
- When did humans start burying their dead?
- The final ethical frontier: Earth-bound exploration was plagued with colonialism, exploitation and extraction. Can we hope to make space any different?
Quote of the Day:
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
