Here’s a crackerjack story from Robin McKie on how anthropologists reckon our hominin cousins survived harsh winters much like cave bears. Could H. sapiens have some of these curious qualities, or could they be teased out from our DNA for the prospect of interstellar travel? One can only hope! Speaking of generation ships plying the […]
If 6EQUJ5 means anything to you, puny humans, then Ian Sample has huge news to fill you with wonder. Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen has borne fruit and astronomers are all over it like white on rice. Better yet, this signal could be even bigger than the legendary Wow! Signal. If there is anyone out there, […]
In the 1680s, the genius mathematical luminary Newton did what many scientists do in times of professional duress and retired to the country to profoundly ponder the arcane mysteries of the universe. Some of his fire-damaged notes from this alchemic era in Newtonian history recently made their way to Sotheby’s auction house, and his quest […]
My name’s Lyle Lanley and I’ve sold monoliths to the National Parks Service, Piatra Neamt, and now Atascadero, and, by gum, it put them on the map! Well sir, there’s nothin’ on Earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified metallic monolith! What’d I say? Monolith! Oh lordy, this monolith meme is pretty fun and who knows […]
Suzanne Moore, who was met with a backlash in March after publishing her column, has resigned from the Guardian after 338 employees wrote a letter slamming the paper’s ‘transphobic content’.
Can’t help it, but Tom Wall’s headline recalls the beginning to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And folks really planning to lie down in front of bulldozers carries the comparison further. But this is a real-life quandary, with groups on both sides possessing expertise and valid arguments. Hopefully this long-standing issue can be solved […]
Is the flying saucer the best shape for a spaceship? The Guardian
‘It’s not a question of belief’: the film examining government UFO records The Guardian
In this extract from The Haunting of Alma Fielding, by Kate Summerscale, we learn of a poltergeist case from England in 1938. The author tells not only of the spooky activities experienced by the titular housewife, but also puts an interesting cultural slant on the subject. In what was then a very class-conscious nation, working-class […]
‘People need to open their minds!’ – Tom DeLonge on his new career as a UFO expert The Guardian
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