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- SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket records first successful test flight.
- Also: Boeing’s Starliner launches NASA astronauts to space for the first time after years of delays.
- Native Americans traded trans-Atlantic glass beads independently of Europeans.
- Art and the precognitive imagination: do artworks that foretell the future provide a clue about the nature of creativity?
- MDMA therapy for PTSD rejected by FDA panel, citing risks of treatment outweight the benefits.
- How astrology helped kings and commoners alike make sense of the world.
- Has the mystery of Rennes-le-Château been resurrected?
- A sudden climatic change in the Nile may have kickstarted ancient Egypt’s prosperity.
- At Contact in the Desert, ‘Coachella for UFOs,’ a once-fringe topic takes the main stage
- The 3 phases of AI evolution that could play out this century.
- Amid growing legitimacy challenges from its right and left, the Vatican has seized control of the supernatural – to prevent ‘abuses’.
Quote of the Day:
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
