A reminder that your mileage may vary on any ‘expert opinion‘ in today’s news briefs…
- Terence McKenna might have been right about the Stoned Ape Theory, new research says.
- Reservoir of liquid water found deep within Martian rocks.
- Horses are smart enough to plan and strategise, new study shows.
- The science says no: human hibernation for space is a non-starter.
- Heavy rains cause partial collapse of ancient pyramid in Mexico.
- Inside scientists’ quest to find the secrets of life in four grams of asteroid dust.
- ‘This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend‘: mountain that sank beneath the waves discovered off Canary Islands.
- Historian Greg Eghigian looked at the history of reported UFO sightings. This is what he found.
- Small wormholes are boring throught the fabric of space-time, physicists say.
- Reality is strange – Francis Young reviews Jeffrey J. Kripal’s How to Think Impossibly: About souls, UFOs, time, belief, and everything else.
- Do dolphins give each other names?
- Giants’ bones? Fossilized testicles? How humans reacted to the discovery of dinosaurs.
Quote of the Day:
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
