Raise your hand if you’re ready to read the Wednesday news briefs…
- New York Times readers share their near-death experiences: After the death of Peter Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist who studied NDEs, readers shared stories of their own. (Non-subscription link)
- Graham Hancock claims a lost civilization built Easter Island’s Moai statues more than 11,000 years ago.
- The Matrix of Reality: Why do people believe in the Simulation Hypothesis?
- The benefits of lucid dreaming, and how to do it. (See Paul Devereux’s book on how to become a lucid dreamer for more.)
- Also: Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy”.
- How venomous caterpillars could help humans design life-saving drugs.
- Pre-Viking fragment from “one of Scandinavia’s most magnificent helmets” discovered.
- China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than ‘all the oil on Earth’.
- Also: China’s plan to rule the heavens.
- The CIA is quietly using AI to build emulated versions of world leaders.
- Trump’s executive order against trans people technically makes every American a female.
- Image of the Day: Hubble’s 2.5-billion-pixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy unveiled.
Thanks to @williamfergie.bsky.social.
Quote of the Day:
Do unto others, what you would have them do to you. That is the golden rule, and it is not very complicated.
Bernie Sanders
