Enjoy your leap year.
- The mathematical muddle created by leap years.
- RIP to the Apple car, we hardly knew ye.
- Employees of Elon Musk’s Boring Company were put under serious risk while trying to build a Hyperloop tunnel system under Las Vegas.
- Banging sound from Titan sub search heard for first time in new documentary clip.
- The Atlantic Ocean is unusually warm right now. Here’s why scientists say that’s “deeply troubling.”
- Jesse Michaels investigates the life and work of Thomas Townsend Brown, the (alleged) discoverer of antigravity.
- Video: Strange ‘flying saucer’ filmed by reconnaissance drone in Ukraine.
- Tangentially Speaking talks to Elliot Swatrz from Lab Meat, a company dedicated to finding alternatives to the industrialized production of eggs, meat and dairy.
- The genetic code that caused our ancestors to lose their tails and walk upright has been found.
- Good news, ravers! A new experimental treatment shows that sound and flickering lights may help slow Alzheimer’s disease.
- William Gibson’s Neuromancer is finally getting its long-awaited adaptation.
- Babies in bilingual homes have distinct brain patterns at 4 months old.
- Is Gunung Padang the oldest pyramid in the world?
- Mary Poppins is now considered PG in the UK.
- Red Pill of the Day: A company in Scotland used AI imagery to advertise a “Willy Wonka Experience.” Needless to say the actual experience did not meet their clients’ expectations…
Quote of the Day:
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
