Happy 100th birthday to the most excellent Sir David Attenborough!
- Dozens of ancient stone circles near Israel’s ‘Stonehenge’ spotted in satellite images.
- Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion: Senescence makes people believe silly things, so does bad science.
- Related: The Claude Delusion – Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious and is the ‘next phase of evolution’.
- Can tracking private jets predict an imminent apocalypse?
- The Universe is a hologram: Why Stephen Hawking’s boldest theory could be right.
- What the light knows: Since her father’s passing, Atlas Obscura CEO Louise Story has witnessed an unexplainable ray of light each April — this year, at a handmade Stonehenge in Nebraska.
- This ancient Roman artifact’s weird properties point to evidence of 1,600-year-old nanotechnology, scientists say.
- The inexplicable laughter epidemic of 1962 that shut down 14 schools.
- Scientology ‘speed running’ trend has LA abuzz and church unhappy.
- This neurosurgeon studies the brain close to death – and he believes the soul transcends the body.
- Major Viking Age gold hoard unearthed in northern Denmark.
- Pentagon clears eight tech firms to deploy their AI on its classified networks. No chance of this going horribly wrong, none at all…
- UFO revelation: Religious leaders told ‘prepare now’ for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations.
- Video of the Day: We’re already living in every dystopian novel.
Thanks Kat!
Quote of the Day
The fact remains that man has an unprecedented control over the world and everything in it. And so, whether he likes it or not, what happens next is very largely up to him.
Sir David Attenborough
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