A reminder that any strange things in today’s news briefs may in fact have a mundane explanation…
- Lue Elizondo’s memoir offers an insider’s perspective into the Pentagon’s UFO hunt. (Non-subscription link)
- Prehistoric paintings found in the Amazon depict supernatural figures.
- Mars could have oceans’ worth of liquid water buried in its crust.
- They all say they’ve got the Holy Grail. So who’s right?
- Drone swarms could stop wildfires, researchers say.
- Man sees world in pink after orgasm-induced synesthesia.
- Alien civilizations might be too advanced for us to detect.
- ‘Golden spike’ showing the moment Earth turned into a giant snowball discovered in ancient Scottish rocks.
- Scientists stumped as rare deep sea ‘doomsday serpent’ found in California.
- Soaring birds, buzzing bugs – art and science capture the ‘hidden beauty’ of flight.
- For Plato, rationalists and mystics can walk the same path: why did such a keen proponent of reason turn to the Eleusinian Mysteries to explain his ideas about knowledge?
- Earth’s days once got 2 hours longer — and that may have triggered one of the biggest evolutionary explosions in history, study suggests.
Thanks to imagicalgreek.
Quote of the Day:
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort’s principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
Colin Wilson
