- The FBI wants your help tracking those large drones flying over New Jersey.
- This new drone doesn’t fly like a bird—instead it hops like one.
- The AP Strange Show podcast invites my friend and colleague Susan Demeter to talk about UFOs and cosmic witchery.
- “A Place to Linger in Strangeness”: A skeptical review of Greg Eghigian’s After the Flying Saucers Came.
- The UFO?UAP?WTF! podcast reviews the latest Congressional UFO hearings.
- On the latest Binnall of America:The Revival, folklorist Delainey Bowers talks about the academic study of folklife, serpent handling churches, taxidermy, and independent pro wrestling.
- Footprints suggest different human relatives lived alongside one another.
- Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to head the FBI, once promoted bogus supplements to ‘reverse’ vaccines.
- GOP lawmakers in Florida and Texas introduce bills to ban ‘chemtrails’ based on claims by fringe conspiracy theorists.
- ‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024.
- Drugs were an important part of the ancient Germanics’ arsenal.
- Turns out, we’ve been wrong about the true shape of mammalian neurons for over a century.
- Babies’ brain activity changes dramatically before and after birth, groundbreaking study finds. Poor baby goes from “Ahh floaty niceee” to “NOOOO GET ME OUTTA HERE!!” what the hell did you expect?
- A version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 will be ‘teaching’ thousands of kids this fall. This is worse than letting Clippy be your thesis tutor.
- Red Pill of the Day: An American insurer will no longer pay for the complete anesthesia for your operation if it takes too long. Adopting the same strategies of cell phone carriers from the early 2000s is probably not the smartest move for the healthcare industry.
Quote of the Day:
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Thomas Mann
