Today’s news briefs might make you see the world from a different point of view…
- How astronomers are searching the sky for alien probes near Earth.
- Five alleged alien artifacts that were actually rocks, spark plugs, and dolls.
- Tesla’s pigeon: an inventor, a bird, and a plan to connect all the minds in the world.
- The rights of the dead: from the Irish Giant to the Ancient One, is it ever ethical for scientists and museums to study
- Oldest amber mosquito fossil comes with a bloodsucking surprise.
- Rare transient luminous event captured in imagery during Internatioal Space Station experiment.
- Honey-hunting birds and humans work together and know each other’s calls.
- Skull of a huge ancient sea monster emerges from British coastal cliffs.
- The phantom island that haunted 16th-century Newfoundland.
- Elon Musk reinstates Twitter account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after poll of the site’s users.
- Inside the secret hell of going to war with Scientology.
Quote of the Day:
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
Thomas Kuhn
