A reminder that you live on a bizarre world…
- A UV radiation pulse played a role in a mass extinction event, fossilized pollen reveals.
- Evidence for humans in South America tens of thousands of years ago may actually be monkey tools.
- Ice geysers could spew alien microbes into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, new paper suggests.
- This just in: we don’t know what UFOs are.
- Why hasn’t ET phoned Earth? Maybe aliens are waiting for the exact right moment.
- Why rituals have been crucial for humans throughout history – and why we still need them. (For more on this topic, see The Power of Ritual, a Daily Grail Publishing release.)
- The lost medieval sword-fighting tricks that no one can decode.
- The history of Peru’s Nazca Lines.
- Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing” with quicklime.
- Scientists say they gene-hacked mice to double remaining lifespan.
- Also: This prescription drug appears to recover lost memories in mice. A good week for mice it seems!
- Video of the Day: 133 days on the Sun, compressed to one hour.
Quote of the Day:
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James
