Happy Solar Eclipse Day North America!
- Maya nobility performed bloodletting sacrifices to strengthen a ‘dying’ sun god during solar eclipses.
- How the solar eclipse may effect the brain and bring people together.
- Tracing the largest solar storm in modern times from tree rings in Lapland.
- Does AI need a “body” to become truly intelligent? Meta researchers think so.
- The science of ‘weird shit’: why we believe in fate, ghosts and conspiracy theories.
- NASA may have inadvertently redirected an asteroid at Mars. This is how the space wars start NASA!
- Study finds mercury contamination rampant in Brazil Indigenous group living in region rampant with illegal gold mining.
- A reader’s guide to microdosing: how to use small doses of psychedelics to lift your mood, enhance your focus, and fire your creativity.
- Dark Star at 50: how a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever.
- Scientific journal posts 101 expressions of concern on studies connected to bogus COVID cure pusher Didier Raoult.
- How an eclipse saved Christopher Columbus and his crew from doom.
- Conspiracy theorists think CERN has wild plans for the solar eclipse.
Quote of the Day:
A solar eclipse…the cosmic ballet goes on.