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- A ‘mega-meteorite’ 200 times the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled Earth’s oceans, scientists have discovered.
- The last of us: could fungi really cause a zombie apocalypse?
- Related: Renowned mushroom expert Paul Stamets calls out HBO’s hit show ‘The Last of Us’ for exploiting fear of fungi.
- The Vikings landed in what is now Newfoundland, Canada around the year A.D. 1000. So why didn’t they colonize the region like other Europeans did centuries later?
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman is jumping into psychedelics – but who benefits when tech billionaires drive mental health treatments?
- Cats associate human words with images, experiment suggests.
- Archimedes rediscovered: technology and ancient history.
- Math is still catching up to the mysterious genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- US vaccinations fall again as more parents refuse lifesaving shots for kids.
- Seven of the world’s strangest plants. (Non-subscription link)
- The script creator: Pau Cin Hau dreamt of an alphabet for a language that had never been written down. So began the religion of Laipianism
- Solar power from space? Actually, it might happen in a couple of years.
Quote of the Day:
Social media isn’t a tool waiting to be used. It has its own goals, and it has its own means of pursuing them by using your psychology against you.
Tristan Harris
