Don’t forget to feed the gators…
- The Exorcist and why demonic possession taps into our darkest fears.
- Apocalypse philosophy: What science fiction teaches us about existence.
- Eclipses do odd things to radio waves – an army of amateur broadcasters wants to find out why.
- Related? The eclipse mystery – pendulum anomaly during solar eclipses could rewrite the laws of science.
- For generations, legends have circulated in the Mexican city of Atlixco about a long-lost temple. Now, it’s been found.
- Debate settled? Oldest human footprints discovered in North America really are 23,000 years old, study finds.
- How some plants became carnivorous predators.
- Positively glowing: fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought, study suggests.
- Organisms without brains can learn too, so what does it mean to be a thinking creature?
- September’s record-setting temps were “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”.
- Ring is cashing in on the UFO craze to promote its surveillance dystopia.
- Image of the Day: 100 years ago today, Edwin Hubble discovered there were more galaxies beyond our own.
Quote of the Day:
Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right. The feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit…the feeling that important truths are being hidden.
Naomi Klein