Feel free to take issue with any of today’s news briefs, but please don’t take it all too seriously…
- The hunt for the world’s oldest story: From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go — and what might we find? (Archived page link)
- ‘Alien’ DNA may exist within humans, genetic study claims.
- Related: Our alien DNA – could messages from E.T. be hidden in our genetic code?
- Calls for UK government to pardon women executed for witchcraft.
- Scientists just took a giant step toward scaling up nuclear fusion.
- Shamans are openly using psychedelic drugs for treatment in South Africa, despite their illegality.
- From barks to words: Researchers aim *squirrel!* to translate dog sounds with AI.
- Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts.
- “What do you see?” — in 1927, a physicist ran an eerie psychic experiment on 25,000 people.
- Peter Thiel says the Antichrist ‘wants a Nobel Peace Prize.’
- Scientists realized that magic mushrooms are even weirder than we thought.
- Once-secret Emperor Commodus’ passage to Rome Colosseum opens to public for the first time.
- Did MAGA conspiracy theories doom the lab-grown burger?
- Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?
Thanks Kat.
Quote of the Day
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt
