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- The Trump administration chooses the totally non-conspiratorial name “Project Stargate” for their $500bn AI initiative. At least they didn’t name it Project Skynet amirite?
- …And Elon Musk is not too happy about it. In fact, this was his recorded reaction.
- Study highlights dangers AI poses to mental health of children and adolescents.
- Here’s an interesting essay written by a professional psychotherapist who now thinks most psychotherapy is pure nonsense and even harmful.
- Breakthrough research questions Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
- Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers.
- China’s “artificial sun” shatters fusion record with over 17 minutes of plasma.
- Toward lost-cost missions to Mars.
- The case of Ohio’s best documented UFO.
- In memory of Chris O’Brien, here are the two interviews he recorded on Where Did The Road Go?
- Secrets of the Coral Castle, an engineering marvel.
- Joseph Matheny releases Ong’s Hat: Compleat.
- Related: Our interview with Joseph Matheny on the blurred lines between fiction and reality.
- Earliest evidence of hominins in Europe predates other finds by half a million years.
- The Rice’s whale: a whole new species of whale discovered in 2021.
- Red Pill of the Day: The urban myth about that time Bob Dylan may or may not have gone to visit his friend Dave Stewart.
Thanks to Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
Quote of the Day:
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
