The Natural is my favorite Redford movie. Even more so now that I’m older.
- The world’s oldest mummies come from Southeast Asia, and they are 10,000 years old.
- Human impact on the evolution of domestic and wild animal body size has intensified in the last millennium.
- (Video) An indigenous activist speaks out about the commodification of her people’s ancestral medicine, Ayahuasca.
- The man who thinks he can prove we live in a simulation—using a truckload of DMT and a laser.
- What the hell happened at Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk? We asked the guests.
- Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures were met with protestors who think he is the subject of his lectures.
- The Nazi pose: How modern yoga is linked to the far right.
- To upload a human brain, scientists might have to destroy it first.
- The belief that AI is conscious is not without risk.
- The age of AI cheating is upon us, and teachers should be alarmed.
- Remote viewer Ingo Swann’s thoughts about Marian apparitions.
- (Video) AMA with Jacques Vallée, sponsored by the Sol Foundation.
- Forget UFOs and alien abductions, here’s how scientists are really looking for life on other worlds.
- Planets without plate tectonics and too little carbon dioxide could mean that technological alien life is rare (archived page link).
- Newly discovered dinosaur species probably headbutted its way into a relationship—you know, just like humans.
- Red Pill of the Day: US Department of Justice removes study showing domestic terrorism is more often committed by right-wing extremists.
Thanks to Rick and Greg.
Quote of the Day:
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.
Robert Redford
