by | Aug 18, 2020 | Weirdness
from AFP via Yahoo! News Scorching temperature in US’s Death Valley could be global high by Issam AHMED A temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) recorded in California’s Death Valley on Sunday by the US National Weather Service could...
by | Aug 17, 2020 | Weirdness
from AP Colombian fast food chain bets on automated restaurants By MANUEL RUEDA BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian fast food chain is planning to turn its branches into automated restaurants at a moment when the coronavirus pandemic has slammed the food service...
by | Aug 13, 2020 | Weirdness
from aeon The mathematics of mind-time The special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futures by Karl Fristonedited by Sally Davies Photo by Steve McCurry/Magnum have a confession. As a physicist and psychiatrist,...
by | Aug 10, 2020 | Weirdness
from c|net NASA’s Dawn spacecraft discovers a hidden ocean under Ceres’ icy shell Bright spots on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, point to an underground ocean that remains active today. by Jackson Ryan A mosaic of Cerealia Facula highlighting...
by | Aug 4, 2020 | Weirdness
from National Geographic These People Believe Death Is Only Temporary Transhumanists believe in a future of human immortality. A community in Russia is working to make it happen. BY DANIEL STONE Transhumanist and neurobiologist Olga Levitskaya is photographed...
by | Jul 31, 2020 | Weirdness
from The New York Times Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That’s the Wrong Question Reporting on the Pentagon program that’s investigating unidentified flying objects is not about belief. It’s about a vigilant search for facts. By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean The...
