When a global superpower can’t even win a war against algae, you know their influence is at an end.
- How Europe became the world champion of heat deaths.
- Climate change and biodiversity decline reshapes bird biology.
- Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars. Enough with the blue-balling, NASA!
- Related: This short story published by Wired still makes me cry every time I read it. Enjoy.
- NASA’s aging infrastructure can’t handle Artemis launches without $1 billion in upgrades, watchdog warns. But sure, let’s keep throwing money at Elon’s Mars delusions.
- Elon is plunging into the abyss with his vapid ‘trillionaire’ status—and he is dragging the rest of the economy with him.
- Divers found a 1,000-year-old city beneath a lake. A massive earthquake may have erased it overnight.
- How to do spiritual development with your integrity intact: Mitch Horowitz on AEWCH 323.
- A Microsoft engineer set up to mock the idea of AI consciousness, using the goats of Age of Empires II.
- Tangentially Speaking interviews Robert Wright, author of The God Test, about how we’d better pay attention to how AI is threatening to change our societal structure… before it is too late.
- Six Degrees of John Keel’s episode 167: Seeking and Sinchronicity, with Matt Vaughn and Andy Mercer.
- How much was Tulsi Gabbard, former US Secretary of National Intelligence, influenced by her Hare Krishna guru?
- Humans in the Andes seem to have evolved a strange genetic ability.
- (Video) The story of the 16 bones that upended how we see our species.
- These tombs stayed hidden from grave robbers for 2,600 years. Now, they’re scientific treasure troves.
- Red Pill of the Day: Seems that in Paris only people who can afford to buy in Louis Vuitton will get any refreshment this year.
Quote of the Day:
Let them eat cake.
Marie Antoinette.
