Here comes your daily fix of Weird. Bon appétit! 🧑🍳
- Converting chaos into order: Aerial archaeology takes flight in the 1920s.
- Hidden tomb found beneath one of the new Seven Wonders of the World —which also served as an Indiana Jones’ movie set.
- The East Texas Weekend writes a review of the annual Texas Bigfoot Conference.
- Ancient hominins had humanlike hands, indicating earlier tool use, study reveals.
- Ancient humans were so good at surviving the last ice age, they didn’t have to migrate like other species.
- DNA analysis reveals Christopher Columbus may have been a Sephardic jew.
- …But DNA may not be enough to solve the mystery of Kaspar Hauser.
- Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities.
- Inside the mind of an AI girlfriend (or boyfriend).
- Google, Microsoft and Amazon are all turning to nuclear power to keep feeding their hungry AI monsters. We could use that energy to bring heat and light to the poor, but I guess Silicon Valley has different priorities…
- Americans’ trust in the media remains at trend low. Call it the ‘Ruppert Murdoch’ effect.
- New documentary of the 2009 “balloon boy” hoax forms a withering indictment of for-profit news.
- Imagining what Earth could look like from space in 1,000 years.
- Metabolic Psychiatry: A new paradigm in the management of Mental Health disorder?
- Nobel economics prize: how colonial history explains why strong institutions are vital to a country’s prosperity.
- Red Pill of the Day: Creepy clowns menace visitors to British park.
Thanks to Greg.
Quote of the Day:
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
Sigmund Freud
