- Teotihuacan’s ‘Pyramid of the Moon’ is aligned with the solstice sun, researchers argue (and the ‘Pyramid of the Sun’ has lunar alignments…go figure).
- How rare are we? Hubris inhibits the hunt for intelligent life in the cosmos.
- About every 500 years, a major earthquake body-slams middle America – experts can’t explain why, and big cities aren’t ready for another.
- Elon Musk reportedly offered SpaceX employees his sperm to seed a Mars colony.
- Foreign magic in Imperial Rome: Roman ideas about witchcraft were often associated with distant regions, including India and the Kush kingdom in northeast Africa.
- Complex life on Earth may be much older than thought.
- GOP Congressman slams FDA for rejecting MDMA therapy, says psychedelics improved his mental health.
- US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year.
- Will we ever reach Alpha Centauri, our closest neighboring star system?
- Ouroboros: the origins and meaning of the snake eating its tail.
- Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI.
- Image of the Day: the Milky Way over Uluru.
Quote of the Day:
I strongly feel that [AI] is an insult to life itself.
Hayao Miyazaki