This, surely, is the dumbest timeline.
- Origin of written language revealed in 5,500-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts.
- US Space Force warns of ‘mind-boggling’ build-up of Chinese capability to fight war in space.
- Also: China develops new satellite-wrecking Death Star-like microwave weapon.
- How the occult gave birth to science. (Non-subscription link)
- Elusive but everywhere: Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement.
- Related: Modern Prometheus – this researcher has cracked the bioelectric field of the body and learned to reprogram it.
- Night of the zombie insects: A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends – here’s the science behind the horror.
- Divination in early modern Britain sought signs in swine, the stars and scripture.
- AIs show distinct bias against Black and female résumés in new study.
- Photosynthesis in animal cells achieved for the first time using implanted chloroplasts.
- James Webb Space Telescope spots cosmic structure eerily similar to a scene from Sagan’s Contact.
- ‘An offering to energize the fields’: 76 child sacrifice victims, all with their chests cut open, unearthed at burial site in Peru.
- In Denmark, an ancient army met a mysterious end in a lake.
- Psychedelics and VR can unlock the mysteries behind tripping, scientist says.
- French man, 88, turns up at hospital with a World War I bomb stuck in his rectum.
- Video of the Day: Watch Phobos eclipse the Sun from the surface of Mars.
Quote of the Day:
Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
