- Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic today.
- Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping — many for the first time.
- Stonehenge plaques hold secret cultural data, says new study.
- As Earth warms, old mayhem and secrets emerge from the ice.
- Against longtermism: It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future – it’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous.
- Taika Waititi’s next comic book-to-film project is Jodorowsky and Moebius’s sci-fi masterpiece The Incal.
- Promising-looking SETI signal turns out to be space junk.
- Authorities investigating “jetpack” sightings in LA say it could just have been a balloon.
- Chile’s stunning fossil whale graveyard explained.
- Related: Siberia’s ‘Whale Bone Alley‘ – Stonehenge’s eerie Russian cousin.
- Cervical cancer cases have falled by almost 90 percent in the HPV-vaccinated generation.
- A general theory of possibility: the abstract art of otherwise and the physics of resilience.
- Video of the Day: Biblically accurate angel.
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Quote of the Day:
There are no absolute sources of certain truth: any good solution to a problem may also contain some errors. This principle is based on fallibilism…[which] makes progress feasible because it allows for further criticism to occur in the future, even when at present we seem to be content with whatever solution we have found. It leaves space for creating ever-improving theories, stories, works of art, and music; it also tells us that errors are extremely interesting things to look for.
Chiara Marletto (in ‘The Science of Can and Can’t‘)
