Today’s news briefs are all killer, no filler!
- Navy officer says underwater UFOs are legitimate threats.
- When did humans first colonize Australia? A new genetic study concludes that original Sahul colonizers arrived later than the commonly held 65,000-year timeframe.
- Scientists fear ‘mirror life’ synthetically produced in the lab could create a dangerous new form of biology.
- Tech utopians are using a Chinese-built ‘ghost city’ to trial their ‘network state’ fantasies.
- Related: The technocratic conspiracy: How tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world.
- An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution: It turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives. (Archived page link)
- China is about to show off its new high-tech weapons to the world. (Archived page link)
- New theory: Could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?
- Did ancient Greeks reach America long before Columbus?
- Scientists pinpoint cause of mysterious electrical surges on satellites.
- New finds shed light on Canopus – the ancient Egyptian port city lost to the sea.
Quote of the Day
The convergence between libertarianism and high-tech has created the true revenge of the nerds: Those whose greatest strengths have not been the comprehension of social systems, appreciation of the humanities, or acquaintance with history, politics, and economics have started shaping public policy. Armed with new money and new celebrity — juice — they can wreak vengeance on those by whom they have felt diminished.
Paulina Borsook (in 1996)
