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- Scientists are starting to take warp drives seriously.
- Internal Air Force emails show confusion and concern over Colorado’s mystery drones.
- Tiny microbe may be the perfect time capsule for messaging far future civilisations.
- Related: Could messages from aliens be hidden in genetic code?
- The animal origins of coronavirus and the flu.
- The next generation of batteries could be built by viruses.
- Freeman Dyson, math genius turned visionary technologist and scientific maverick, has passed away at age 96.
- Related: Freeman Dyson’s heretical thoughts.
- Can dreams be prophetic?
- LSD in the ’60s; ecstasy in the ‘80s; ’smart’ drugs today: how we get high reflects the fears and desires of our times.
- The robot does the hard work. Can you still attain enlightenment?
- “Here’s the file Clearview AI has been keeping on me, and probably on you too”.
- Related: Are we all persons of interest? Advances in technology mean we could all be spied on.
- William Gibson on the apocalypse: “It’s been happening for at least 100 years”
Thanks Rick.
Quote of the Day:
The prevailing dogmas may be right, but they still need to be challenged. I am proud to be a heretic. The world always needs heretics to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies.
Freeman Dyson
