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What if you were stuck in a cave with 14 other people for 40 days?
Would more than one of you still be alive? By the time the HMS Bounty mutineers were found on Pitcairn Island, only one of them was; and their Polynesian predecessors on that island apparently didn’t fare any better (read about that here). During World War 2, Jewish partisans holed up in close[...]
April 20th, 2021 - 12:27 pm § in Environment, Science
What if you predict a global threat, and turn out to be right?
He was one of the first to warn us the world was getting hotter. He’s not happy he was right. In the autumn of 1969, a young doctoral student thumbs through a magazine published by his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Vietnam War is raging. Richard Nixon is president. The[...]
Navy still puzzled by mystery drones
They’re being called UFOs, but probably were sophisticated drones, and the Navy says it still doesn’t know where they came from or who they belonged to. Half a dozen of the drones “pursued” several Navy ships conducting exercises off the California coast in July 2019 (see map[...]
April 10th, 2021 - 12:23 am § in Science
Gravitational illusion (video)
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April 7th, 2021 - 2:29 pm § in Science
Science: Secrets of 5,700-year-old chewing gum
“In Denmark, archaeologists have unearthed a 5,700-year-old type of ‘chewing gum’ with a complete ancient human genome of a likely dark-skinned, dark-haired and blue-eyed woman closely related to the hunter-gatherers from mainland Europe” (artist’s reconstruction, left)[...]
The $299 supermask
So many people are so stupid about Covid-19 that masks probably will be with us forever, even for folks who’ve been vaccinated, because none of the vaccines are 100% effective at warding off stupidity. And, anyway, facial masks are becoming fashion items. You can even get them with polka dots [...]
Clinton’s CIA director “open” to UFOs
R. James Woolsey (photo left, bio here), who ran the CIA from 1993 to 1995, says he’s “open” to the possibility of alien life, and claims, “There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Monday, April 5, 2021. T[...]
Isaac Asimov: Quote of the Day
Old quote, new day, and some things never change. “It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: ‘America’s right to know.’ It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ‘America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Forei[...]