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- If you meet E.T. in space, kill him. (Non-subscriber link)
- How the search for dinosaurs on Venus exposed a warning for Earth.
- Related: Remember that time the Russians found scorpions on Venus?
- ‘Extraordinary’ 4,000-year-old burial of ancient Egyptian governor’s daughter discovered in a coffin within another coffin.
- 1.5-meter ‘sea snake’ picked up on Danish beach is actually…a whale penis.
- Related: This famous sea serpent story might actually have been a sighting of a whale penis.
- She asked TikTok if her house was haunted – then the cops came. (Non-subscription link)
- 2 billion-year-old rock found harboring microbes – and they’re still alive.
- Harvard researchers reveal ‘treasure trove’ of data on mysterious voids in African rainforest that appear out of nowhere.
- Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction.
- World’s first ‘Google Maps’ for an entire brain is here, and you can zoom inside.
- Plagues, famines, and fires: how the jet stream shaped history and threatens our future.
- The Wendigo and six other ancient monsters from indigenous folklore.
Quote of the Day:
We understand the encoding of genetic sequences, the folding of proteins to construct the cells of the body, and even a good deal about how epigenetic switches control these processes. And yet we still do not understand what happens when we read a sentence.
Meaning is not neuronal calculus in the brain, or the careful smudges of ink on a page, or the areas of light and dark on a screen. Meaning has no mass or charge. It occupies no space – and yet meaning makes a difference in the world.
Ray Nayler (in ‘The Mountain in the Sea’)
