Find your own meaning in today’s news briefs…
- The outside world knows Wim Hof as the eccentric Iceman. His family suffered domestic violence.
- Speaking with whales: AI could help us understand what whales are saying – but should we talk back? (Non-subscriber link)
- The COVID-19 pandemic changed the temperature of the Moon, scientists claim.
- Not a placebo: study finds meditation offers genuine pain relief.
- Do animals understand death? The latest science may surprise you.
- This biohybrid robot is made of human cells and controlled by a machine ‘mind’.
- Who is Baba Yaga? Trickster, mentor, probable goddess—Slavic folklore’s most famous villain is so much more than a witch.
- Growing mushroom houses on the moon? NASA’s fungus-filled plan.
- Crew of ill-fated Franklin Expedition to the Arctic in the 1840s cannibalized their commander, archeologists prove
- 10 spine-tingling spirits from around the world.
- The UK now has no coal-fired power plants, for the first time since 1882.
- The hidden world of electrostatic ecology: new experiments explore how evolution may have developed the use of static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more.
- California governor vetoes AI bill aimed at preventing catastrophic harms.
- Black holes may actually be ‘frozen stars‘, scientists claim.
Quote of the Day:
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy Carter
