It’s Halloween week, so the news is suddenly haunted…
- Science and the séance: why Victorian scientists took ghosts seriously.
- From black cats to white spirit bears, “superstitions, lore and myths can shape your subconscious” − biases that have real effects.
- Famous breakthrough image of the Milky Way’s black hole that was released in 2022 may depict an image artifact, new research suggests.
- The wormhole dilemma: could advanced civilizations use time travel to rewrite history?
- Anyone can learn echolocation in just 10 weeks – and it remodels your brain. (Non-subscription link)
- Related: The Batman – Daniel Kish perceives the world around him using echolocation.
- Why people believe in ghosts – a psychologist explains all.
- The exciting research that may cure Parkinson’s.
- Scientists revive pig brains an hour after death with experimental method.
- Rage against the machine: for all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does.
- Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude.
- Related: ‘The fruitful matrix of ghosts‘ – the psychic investigations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Quote of the Day:
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is ‘Nazi.’ Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
A.R. Moxon
