A lot to unpack in today’s news…
- Tarot cards are having a moment with help from the global pandemic.
- Report led by MIT scientists details a suite of privately-funded missions to hunt for life on Venus.
- Communicating with aliens: observables versus qualia.
- A major time travel perk may be technically impossible.
- Valley of headless men: mysterious decapitations in Canada’s Nahanni Valley.
- Maggot and meal-worm burgers: Is insect protein part of the future of nutrition?
- However…there’s mounting evidence that insects can experience a remarkable range of feelings.
- A genetically modified jellyfish whose nerve cells light up when they fire is offering a glimpse of other minds.
- ‘This isn’t the 60s again’: psychedelics business takes off amid culture clash.
- Cosmologists parry attacks on the vaunted cosmological principle.
- This Air Force ‘targeting A.I.’ thought it had a 90% success rate – it was more like 25%.
- The latter days of Alex Jones.
- Another alleged close encounter with humanoids from Conil, Spain.
- A man who told police he wanted to steal a jet so he could fly to Area 51 to look at aliens was arrested Wednesday after he drove through fences at the McCarran International Airport in a limo while wearing a clown mask, parked on an aircraft ramp, and made a bomb threat.
Quote of the Day:
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K. Dick
