Take a look under the hood of reality with our Monday news briefs…
- What Western medicine can learn from the ancient history of psychedelics.
- You can learn plenty about the ancient history of psychedelics in Paul Devereux’s excellent book The Long Trip: A prehistory of psychedelia.
- German researchers work on Mars mission that will include a swarm of robots and a search for unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in the Martian sky.
- Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse? One of the brightest stars in the sky may actually be 2 stars, study hints.
- Neanderthals and modern humans started burying their dead at the same time and place.
- The surprising role of deep thinking in conspiracy theories.
- Prince Philip once planned ‘to meet an alien called Janus’, new documentary claims.
- Related: More on Prince Philip’s ‘secret’ interest in the UFO topic.
- Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel prizes.
- Ten space stations of the future: these startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.
- Video of the Day: Can other animals understand death?
Quote of the Day:
To fathom the Mysteries, one must recognize the mingling of the sacred and the psychedelic in ancient religious experience.
‘The Road to Eleusis’ (Wasson, Hofmann and Ruck)
