May ghosts be on your side this Xmas…
- SETI: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies.
- Why Tolkien and C.S. Lewis explored the flat-Earth ‘absurdity’.
- Mysterious relics found on seafloor could lead to a game-changing discovery.
- 7,000-year-old perishable artifacts are revealed by thawing of ice in ancient volcanic landscape in Canada.
- Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals.
- Yoga-based interventions might improve anxiety and depression symptoms.
- Signs of life shooting from Saturn’s moon could be collected with spacecraft, scientists say.
- New editions of the Voyager probe’s golden records could reveal humanity’s darker side.
- Related: Comics legend Jack Kirby created his own ‘Pioneer plaque’ design due to his concern that our attempts to contact aliens might attract a ‘tiger’.
- ‘Eyes everywhere’: Congress is about to vote to expand mass surveillance of Americans, experts warn.
- Science is becoming less human – AI is accelerating the pace of discovery, but at what cost?
- Tsunamis up to 90 feet high smash into New Zealand every 580 years, study finds.
Quote of the Day:
In the meetings between ‘discoverers’ and ‘discoverees,’ history has always given the advantage to the finders. In the case of the Jupiter (Pioneer) plaque, I feel that a tremendous issue was thoughtlessly taken out of the world forum by a few individuals who have marked a clear trail to our door.
My point is, who will come a-knocking – the trader or the tiger?
