Have you checked out our interview with Prof. Jesse Bering about the reincarnation research of Dr Ian Stevenson yet? One of our favorite chats so far!
- Parapsychology is coming in from the cold: The University of Cambridge is home to an archive and a fellowship for psychical research — an area gaining ground, even in the mainstream.
- Alien life likely can’t survive on exoplanets smaller than Mars, scientists say.
- Two massive structures near Egypt’s Red Pyramid may be the remains of ancient dams rather than stone transport ramps, according to a new study that proposes the monuments formed part of an extensive water management system more than 4,500 years ago.
- Can you wake up speaking a different accent? The surprising science of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
- Are we overlooking signs of alien life that aren’t technological or biological?
- Psychedelics might not have evolved to get humans high: Hallucinations may have more to do with our shared brain chemistry with snails, insects, and sea urchins. (Archived page link)
- Archaeologists map buried sacred precinct of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
- Report says ‘hundreds’ of users asked ChatGPT about bioweapons and poisons, and it answered.
- What is Falun Gong, and why does the Chinese Communist Party want to suppress it?
- These moths smell flowers through their wings, study finds.
- How the Tech Right learned to love Mordor: The history of the American right’s long romance with J.R.R. Tolkien, from earnest fandom to arms-industry branding exercise.
Quote of the Day
They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
‘The Great Gatsby’ (1925)
