Yes, it’s not even been two weeks of 2021. Yes, you’re in the Twilight Zone.
- Sudden amnesia showed me that the self is a convenient fiction.
- UFC looks into Johns Hopkins study on psychedelic drugs as potential therapy for fighters.
- ‘Mostly Harmless’ hiker, subject of Facebook posts and forums, ID’d as Lafayette man.
- The case for Cannibalism –or, how to survive the Donner party.
- Scientists find more evidence that galaxies are synced up in a ‘cosmic web’.
- Statue of mysterious woman with ‘Star Wars’-like headdress found in Mexico.
- Caligula’s Garden of Delights, unearthed and restored.
- Endangered baby rhino born in Polish zoo.
- General Motors surprises with autonomous Cadillac and flying car concepts.
- Elon Musk says Mars settlers will use cryptocurrency, like ‘Marscoin’ or ‘Muskollars’.
- In getting with the new times, the CIA is trying rebranding –next thing you know, they’ll try water-boarding with kombucha.
- Here’s a click-baity article from The Debrief expanding on BAASS’s investigation on the Skinwalker ranch.
- Dire wolves were not really wolves, new genetic clues reveal.
- Not-so-identical twins.
- Mystery ‘hum’ spreads from Horsham to Pulborough, in the UK.
- Red Pill of the Day: London Zoo refuses to grant Ricky Gervais his dying wish of being eaten by lions.
Thanks to Greg.
Quote of the Day:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov