Choose the things you care about.
- NASA names the crew of its first manned mission to the Moon in five decades.
- How long will it take for humans to colonize another planet?
- The search for Earth look-alikes is getting serious.
- This is your brain on DMT – a breakdown of Imperial College’s new DMT fMRI/EEG study.
- Psychedelic treatment linked to substantial reduction in alcohol misuse and PTSD symptoms in US Special Operations Forces Veterans.
- Also: Veterans encourage psychedelic bipartisanship.
- ‘Pandora’s Box’: Doctors warn of rising plant fungus infections in humans.
- ‘Black hole’ created using sound waves could help enable the development of a physical warp drive.
- Every day is April Fool’s Day now: Deepfakes, puffy Popes, AI-generated Trump arrest photos, articles written by GPT-4 – we’re living in a world where fear of being fooled is constant.
- Wild elephants appear to have been domesticated…but not by humans.
- What did Homo sapiens eat 170,000 years ago? Roasted, supersized land snails.
- A rare blood-red arc of light shines in the Scandinavian sky. What is it?
Quote of the Day:
As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.
Tim Wu