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- Jacques Vallee on the last 50 years of UFO research: “We have not learned anything new about their identity”.
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- How a tale of demonic possession predicted the decline of an early medieval empire.
- NASA performs first aircraft accident investigation on another world.
- ‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research.
- Wilhelm Reich: twice burned. The psychoanalyst and physician has a curious distinction – his books were burned by the Nazis in the 1930s and then by Americans in the 1950s.
- Galactic civilizations may be impossible. Here’s why.
- 17 of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror books of 2024.
- Vatican to open five ‘sacred portals’ for once-in-quarter-century ritual. Sounds like a great opening to a horror book…
- Ten months after first tease, OpenAI launches Sora video generation publicly.
- Renowned mentalist ‘The Amazing Kreskin’ has died at age 89.
- Oldest human genomes sequenced, revealing when we first slept with Neanderthals.
- Pilot encountered mystery objects ‘moving at extreme speed’: FAA.
- Image of the Day: Viewing for miles on the Martian surface, in every direction.
Quote of the Day:
We’ve made some progress…[but] in terms of research, we have not learned anything new about the identity or about the characteristics [of UFOs].
