Take your time reading today’s news briefs…
- We may know a whole lot more about UFOs soon: a new law could force the government to share what it knows about those strange lights in the sky.
- That time the US Treasury Secretary ate magic mushrooms during a trip to China.
- Scientists are very worried about NASA’s Mars plan.
- Mysterious code in ancient Assyrian temples can finally be explained.
- Godfather of AI says there’s an expert consensus AI will soon exceed human intelligence, and a “significant chance” that AI will take control.
- Warm ocean water is rushing beneath Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ making its collapse more likely.
- Biologists discover caterpillars are able to sense electrostatic fields generated by predators.
- Non-invasive zaps to the spinal cord can treat paralysis — but no one knows why.
- Mysterious 1-million-year-old skull from China may belong to ‘Dragon Man’ lineage.
- Did consciousness come before life?
- Related: the quantum mind of Stuart Hameroff.
- Cutting-edge AI program ‘CosmoAgent’ simulates first contact with alien civilizations.
- Image(s) of the Day: the 2024 Milky Way photographer of the year collection.
Quote of the Day:
In our modern, social media driven society, our interactions are incentivized and monetized for outrage, and it is f**king exhausting for everyone.
But…we are *not* censored or silenced. We are surrounded by and inundated with more speech than has ever existed in the history of communication. And it is all weaponized by professional outrage hunters of all stripes…to generate monetized clicks.
Outrage is the engine of our modern media economy.
Jon Stewart (on The Daily Show)
