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- Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, new study suggests.
- Are we the Martians? The intriguing idea that life on Earth began on the Red Planet.
- Orcas are adopting terrifying new behaviors. Are they getting smarter? (Archived page link)
- W.B. Yeats and the occult imagination: Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.
- Related: See William Butler Yeats’s magical Golden Dawn tools and private journals.
- Conservative and Christian? The US right is now championing psychedelic drugs.
- Terror, androgyny and benevolence: A brief history of angels in Christianity.
- Archaeologists discover the earliest confirmed adult cremation.
- How will the Universe end? The dark eternity that awaits us trillions of years from now.
- A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science.
- Related: The ancient Egyptians collected fossils.
- Silicon Valley’s psychedelic gold rush has a data problem.
- 10 quantum myths that must die in the new year.
- Image(s) of the Day: 25 of the most mind-blowing aurora photos ever taken.
Quote of the Day
Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind.
Philip K. Dick
