- The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) has published all 29 prize-winning entries from their Afterlife Essay competition (including mine!) on their website. Just a quick 700,000+ words for you to digest over the weekend…
- Related: Exploring the evidence for an afterlife, in which I talk about my own essay (direct PDF download here).
- Discoveries by new deep learning neural network take the count of validated exoplanets to nearly 5,000.
- Just how many threatening asteroids are there? It’s complicated.
- 41,500-year-old ivory pendant may be oldest human-decorated jewelry in Eurasia.
- Egypt opens Luxor’s excavated 3,000-year-old Avenue of Sphinxes to the public.
- An archaeological dig reignites debate over the Old Testament’s historical accuracy.
- The sudden collapse of China’s ‘Venice of the Stone Age’ has been blamed on climate change.
- British man becomes first in the world to receive a 3D-printed prosthetic eye.
- Flesh-eating bees renounced pollen for the rotting meat of dead animals.
- ‘Flying saucer for one‘ private aircraft is only weeks away from its first flight.
- Humans didn’t invent mathematics…it’s what the world is made of.
Quote of the Day:
It must be obvious… that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
Alan Watts