Happy start of summer to all the sub-Equatorians out there!
- Bizarre, UFO-like halo of red light appears over small Italian town — for the second time in 3 years.
- RFK Jr. allegedly smokes powerful psychedelic that gives people ‘near-death’ experiences (they’re talking about DMT).
- Making sense of the Egyptian pyramids’ enduring mysteries. (Archived page link)
- Lightning detected on Mars for the first time, scientists say.
- Hunting for Bigfoot relies more on science than skeptics think.
- The moral authority of animals: For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
- ‘No easy explanation’: Scientists are debating a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light.
- QAnon isn’t so thrilled about the Epstein revelations. (Archived page link)
- How dangerous are interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS?
- You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, new study finds. (Archived page link)
- Mystical beliefs predict a meaningful life even without organized religion.
- Clinical trials around the world are finding that pychedelics might help terminal patients find peace.
Quote of the Day
According to one study, approximately $1.5 trillion will have been spent on the race to build artificial super-intelligence this year alone. Imagine for a moment if that obscene heap of cash had been spent instead on restoring Earth’s ecosystems, cleaning up our pollution, mitigating climate change, eliminating global poverty, ensuring that everyone has access to free health care and making the world a more livable place for all. Imagine that.
