by | Oct 17, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Nautilus Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners BY JIM DAVIES Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / Shutterstock For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with...
by | Oct 16, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Wall Street Journal THE AMAZING THINGS YOU’LL DO IN THE ‘METAVERSE’ AND WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO GET THERE Tech visionaries foresee a vast, immersive world that mirrors and extends the real one, allowing people to do and be what previously could only be imagined...
by | Oct 9, 2021 | Weirdness
from WIRED A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an ‘Internet Apocalypse’ The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection. by Lily Hay Newman Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm,...
by | Oct 6, 2021 | Weirdness
from Study Finds Fire and brimstone: Sodom and Gomorrah perhaps destroyed by ‘cosmic fireball,’ evidence shows Artist’s impression of cloudburst from meteor at Sodom and Gomorrah site. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The biblical “sin cities” of Sodom and Gomorrah could...
by | Oct 5, 2021 | Weirdness
from The Daily Mail ‘Planetary defense!’ NASA will launch November mission to deflect ‘devastating’ asteroid from hitting Earth by NUDGING it with a spacecraft, agency says By CHRIS CIACCIA NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an...
by | Sep 18, 2021 | Weirdness
from France 24 Iceland’s volcanic eruption the longest in half a century The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19 on the Reykjanes peninsula to the south west of Reykjavik Jeremie RICHARD AFP...