Better grab yourself a tasty beverage and make yourself comfortable – every story is a banger in today’s news briefs…
- Researchers believe a 4,000-year-old tomb in an Egyptian necropolis at Aswan was oriented so that a statue within it would have been illuminated at sunrise on the winter solstice.
- Double telescope study of zone where Wow! signal originated comes up empty.
- Planetary intelligence: to solve our global problems, we need to evolve into a global collective, taking inspiration from DNA, ants, and our own social success.
- Earth now has 8 billion humans. This man is the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, because he wishes there were no humans.
- Wolves infected with mind-altering parasite Toxoplasma gondii are more likely to become pack leaders.
- Related: You are legion, for you are many – parasites and microbes that control the mind.
- It may be one of the basic building blocks of all matter, but there’s still a lot we have to learn about the proton.
- Over 40 percent of the world’s population may still believe in witchcraft.
- There’s a woman haunting the Internet. She was created by A.I. Now she won’t leave.
- Terminal lucidity: why do some people experience mental clarity before death?
- Image of the Day: the crescent Moon you never see – taken by the Orion spacecraft from the far side of the Moon.
Thanks to @UnlikelyWorlds.
Quote of the Day:
On their own, no atoms in an organism are alive, yet collectively they are. You are a self-assembling living system, a set of nested feedback loops of molecules that process information specific to producing other molecules — the molecules that compose you. You are a collective.
