If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our interview with John Higgs discussing the KLF and the ideas of Alan Moore and Robert Anton Wilson!
- The comet strike theory that just won’t die: mainstream science has done its best to debunk the Younger Dryas Impact theory, but a belief in a world-changing series of prehistoric impacts continues to gain momentum.
- Data compiled from NASA’s Juno mission shows that Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa severely lacks oxygen, making it less hospitable for sustaining life than previously thought.
- 1,000-year-old vessels found in Guatemala held tobacco that was possibly used as ‘narcotics to induce deep sleep, visions and divinatory trances‘.
- See Paul Devereux’s The Long Trip: A prehistory of psychedelia for an excellent rundown of psychedelic use across the world in ancient times.
- Why scientists think the multiverse isn’t just fiction.
- The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began – in a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
- Tech billionaires need to stop trying to make the science fiction they grew up on real.
- The 2023 Canadian UFO survey (PDF file) has been released, with 570 sightings officially reported last year.
- Dazzling treasures found in 1,300-year-old tomb in Panama, including gold-plated sperm whale teeth.
- We might be just a few years away from an ice-free Arctic.
- Europe’s last hunter-gatherers had sophisticated societies that helped them avoid inbreeding.
Quote of the Day:
If you take a look at the big picture of history, it is a case of us leaving the natural world and moving into a world that we have created from our imaginations. Everything around you, the table, the chairs, the desk, the technology, the language you’re speaking, all these things were ideas in people’s heads. And they’ve sort of come out into the world and we’re living in this world built from our ideas.
