I love a space metaphor…
- SpaceX’s Starship breaks up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test.
- Ancient human fingerprint suggests Neanderthals made art.
- Is tech billionaire Peter Thiel an ancient astronaut believer?
- Tomb built for Alexander the Great’s best friend is aligned with winter solstice, study suggests.
- Electric fish and the first battery: Allesandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the earliest electric battery, in part because of his investigations into the torpedo, an electric ray fish.
- Why does Elon Musk love this socialist sci-fi series? The broligarchs share a favorite author, but they might be missing the point entirely.
- Capuchins are ‘kidnapping’ baby monkeys of different species, and scientists are baffled.
- The other Homo sapiens: We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?
- China is building a constellation of AI supercomputers in space — and just launched the first pieces.
- Does light traveling through space wear out?
- Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant ‘harmal’ identified in Iron Age Arabia.
- The Martian predicts human colonies on Mars by 2035. How close are we?
- Amanda Feilding, modern pioneer/adventurer in psychedelic science, has sadly passed away at age 82. (Archived page link)
Quote of the Day
The key issue with putting contrarians in power is that their platform is entirely based on arguing against the mainstream.
Mainstream public health makes mistakes, but on the aggregate it’s pretty solid and evidence-based. If you throw out everything mainstream, you’re left with a lot of nonsense.
