See anything you like in today’s news briefs?
- OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board. And a day later: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO.
- SpaceX’s Starship reaches space for first time but explodes moments later.
- Strauss-Howe generational theory: is revolution coming to America?
- Where does religion come from?
- Which presidents have seen UFOs? (Yep, it’s more than one.)
- ‘Bouncing’ comets may be delivering the seeds of life to alien planets, new study finds.
- Sailors playing heavy metal to scare killer whales may be putting a target on their backs by telling the orcas exactly where to find them.
- The shocking sex lives of electric eels in Brazil: lightning and other environmental electricity may jumpstart reproduction for the fish.
- Something ‘peculiar’ was tracked over a sunspot by scientists for several days. Now they have revealed what it was.
- Fusion power: are we getting any closer?
- Did Napoleon really fire at the pyramids? A historian explains the truth behind the legends of Ridley Scott’s biopic.
- A TikTok Jesus promises divine blessings and many worldly comforts.
- Why you age slower on a plane (and other incredibly strange effects of relativity).
Quote of the Day:
Most educated people are aware that we’re the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.
Sir Martin Rees
