In our desperation to search for ET intelligence, we’ve forgotten to look at other life on Earth…
- Wounded orangutan in Indonesia observed self-medicating using a paste made from plants.
- Pet parrots prefer live video-calls over watching pre-recorded videos of other birds.
- The mysteries of plant ‘intelligence’: scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom.
- The children who remember their past lives.
- The Pentagon is lying about UFOs.
- Where does consciousness come from? It could all be vibrations.
- Alien Earths: how to find habitable worlds in our galaxy.
- Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted.
- How AI is testing the boundaries of human intelligence.
- DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say.
- How the world’s largest octopus went from legendary cryptid to protected species.
- Tolkien’s Middle-Earth wasn’t a place. It was a time in (English) history.
- New evidence ancient Mars was more Earth-like than thought – and maybe even habitable.
Quote of the Day:
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as “human rights”? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
Carl Sagan
