The Wednesday news briefs have plenty of interest to get you past hump day!
- Parapsychologist Dr Dean Radin discusses how learning magical techniques can help unlock psychic abilities.
- First evidence of deliberate mummification in Inca child sacrifice discovered.
- Even for California, this reported Bigfoot sighting was unusually rare.
- Magic acacias: Australian researchers believe wattles may contain the ‘next gen’ of psychedelics.
- Can you rewire your brain? The metaphor of rewiring offers an ideal of engineered precision – but the brain is more like a forest than a circuit board.
- Scientists found 7,000-year-old mummies in the desert that don’t share DNA with modern humans.
- Palantir touts record $2 billion in revenue from providing surveillance to aid Trump administration’s targeting of immigrants and transgender people. Peter Thiel thanks you subsidising his wealth with your tax dollars.
- Inside mysterious vault created to save life after planetary extinction.
- Scientists deciphered humanity’s earliest star map after it had literally been erased from history.
- AIs are chatting among themselves, and things are getting strange.
- What happens if science finally explains consciousness? A new study explores the consequences.
- We’re nowhere near ready to make babies in space, experts warn.
Quote of the Day
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
