What’s your ideal setlist for ‘Alienstock’?
- With Jeffrey Epstein’s death, conspiracy theories have officially gone mainstream.
- FBI bulletin concedes that conspiracy theories might be fueled in part by actual conspiracies.
- Et in Avebury ego: on Neo-Nazis and ancient historical sites.
- A categorical mistake: ‘Science’, ‘Magic’ and ‘Religion’ in the Middle Ages.
- The varieties of psychonautic experience – a review of Erik Davis’s new book High Weirdness.
- Nobel-prize winning chemist Kary Mullis, who credited LSD with helping his discovery, has sadly passed away at age 74.
- Related: Kary Mullis – DNA, LSD and alien abductions.
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink: both an evolution, and a plan for radical change.
- New law requires “Not for humans” label on DIY CRISPR kits.
- A promising resource for cancer breakthroughs is dying out.
- Astronomers catch a pulsar ‘glitching’, offering insights into the strange stars.
- Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole has emitted a mysteriously bright flare.
- Tomorrow’s bionic eyes will have ‘Predator’ vision.
- In Ethiopia, ancient humans lived on thin-air and naked mole-rats. The next fad diet?
- Would you like to play a game? A supercomputer is being built to manage the US’s nukes.
- Russia is sending its gun-shooting robot to the International Space Station next year. Because science fiction story plots need to start somewhere…
- Bizarre dancing fireball UFO filmed over England for second time.
- A Tesla owner implanted the RFID chip from her Model 3’s keycard into her arm.
Quote of the Day:
There is a perpetual tug between conspiracy theorists and actual conspiracies, between things that are genuinely not believable and truths that are so outlandish they can be hard, at first, to believe.
Anna Merlan
