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- The US Air Force is probing a mysterious ‘incident’ involving flying craft near Area 51, report says.
- A toxic love affair: Drug use in the ancient world.
- As always, for a detailed, fascinating exploration of this topic, see Paul Devereux’s The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia.
- Unusual new 3I/ATLAS discovery suggests the interstellar comet is “anomalously massive”.
- New study finds that acupuncture does provide some relief for people with lower back pain, though the benefit was modest.
- International scholars urge action as Gaza and West Bank archaeological collections face unprecedented loss.
- The five biggest mysteries about the origin of our Universe.
- Scientists might be looking for consciousness in the wrong part of the brain.
- What’s behind the mysterious Gobi Wall?
- Psychedelics may not boost creativity as widely believed, new study suggests.
- Trump shares AI video of himself promoting miracle ‘medbeds’, a conspiracy theory popular with QAnon adherents.
- It’s official: Humans have now found 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. RFK Jr set to investigate reason for the explosion in exoplanet numbers in recent decades…
- Cranial modification took place in early medieval Japan, study finds.
- Trump to declassify files of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Those aren’t the ‘E’ files we want declassified Donnie…
- Psychiatric facilities are being flooded with AI users: “We are witnessing the emergence of an entirely new frontier of mental health crises.”
Quote of the Day
If any other technology in the world did [what AI does to people’s mental health], you’d shut that shit down immediately.
Ed Zitron
