Today’s news briefs are a pleasing mix of old and new…
- Easter Island’s ‘population collapse’ probably never happened: new study challenges the long-held idea that islanders committed ‘ecocide’ by chopping down palm trees at an unsustainable rate.
- NASA indefinitely delays return of Boeing’s Starliner from the ISS to review propulsion data.
- AI is exhausting the power grid, forcing tech firms to seek a miracle solution.
- Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) have a surprising effect on some people.
- Have giant humans ever existed?
- Green parrots rub against plants for parasite protection – and probably also to get high.
- Neo-Nazis are all in on AI, using it to supercharge radicalization, fundraising, and now to make weapon blueprints. (Non-paywall version)
- The world’s oldest liquid wine contains a surprising ingredient – cremated human remains.
- The tale of the vanishing summer camp ghost story.
- Dark energy may be even stranger than we thought.
- Curious tourists and modern-day druids: marking the solstice at Stonehenge.
- Video of the Day: Stonehenge – solsticies, science and spiritualism.
Quote of the Day:
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
Epicurus
