Congrats to Daily Grail contributing editor Cat Vincent on writing the cover feature for this month’s Fortean Times!
- Klaus Schmidt, archaeologist in charge of excavations at Göbekli Tepe, dies of a heart attack, aged just 60.
- 4000-year-old treasure trove at risk from the sea.
- Ashur wept: ISIS jihadists destroy 2800-year-old Assyrian statue.
- Could religion simply be a strategy of mind-controlling parasites?
- The child-like faith in reason.
- Magic mushrooms were the inspiration for Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune.
- Tour bus accidentally trespasses onto Area 51, getting a military welcome (with video).
- Crop circle baffles villagers in southern Russia.
- Dutch cyclist cheated death twice after cancelling flights on both MH370 and MH17.
- MH17 conspiracy theories? Nup, didn’t see that coming at all.
- Black Country Triangle: police receive scores of emergency calls in 3 years reporting sightings of witches, zombies and ghosts.
- Are we living in a multiverse? Our universe could be just one bubble in a frothy sea of bubbles.
- Researcher: I built a brain-decoding machine.
- Latest sign of the impending robot rebellion: Robot, heal thyself!
- Great moments in science (if Twitter had existed).
Quote of the Day:
You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.
Robert Anton Wilson
