While Alessandro Fedrizzi and friends’s conclusion doesn’t directly affect the macroscopic universe, it strongly suggests the microscopic is highly subjective. And if that’s subjective, are we merely believing that himalayan salt lamp is glowing upon your desk next to your cat? Or is it a case of believing in something is enough to make it […]

A survey of medieval Catholic policies and philosophies illustrates how two thousand years of Catholic doctrine has seriously twisted the West’s mindset, according to Stephanie Pappas. At the heart of this argument is… monogamy? Yet there’s a certain something about loyalty to one’s spouse which encourages individualism to a toxic degree. As for other foibles […]

A lot has been said about the mystery of consciousness from Daniel Dennett’s misguided greyfacery to David Chalmer’s “hard problem”, yet nobody really agrees as to what’s behind the phenomenon. Such is the herculean task shouldered by Philip Goff, attempting to be objective about what’s considered to be a highly subjective and elusive phenomenon. Now […]

Here’s a good summary of Tim McMillan’s worthwhile Popular Mechanics article about five named (and a new anonymous) Nimitz carrier group surface witnesses. Yasemin Saplakoglu’s article thankfully features the 2004 FLIR1 video rather than the decade-later unrelated GIMBAL footage. On the other hand, the LiveScience piece wrongly places Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight in Cmdr. David […]

Even if you’re not schizophrenic, nor under the influence of a god’s most sacred of sacraments, you are primed to see what isn’t really there. With the help of a laser, a scalpel, and modern medical science, Brandon Specktor lays out how gray matter is more sensitive than a 16 year old having their first […]

Let Rafi Letzter be clear here, it’s not you-know-who, but something very freaky and cool is happening around NGTS-7 opening up possibilities for real alien civilizations doing some high-level astroengineering. And if that’s possible, puny humans know what to look for in hopes of proving we’re not alone. Maybe picking out those Alien Technosignatures Buried […]

Here’s another post illustrating the many-faceted aspects to UFO studies. Rafi Letzter gives background to the perplexing transient lunar phenomena (including their original name) and plans to resolve their secret. Michael Prescott’s Blog offers its space to Matt Rouge and The “Ideal Ineptitude” of Supposed ETs in UFO and Alien Abduction Phenomena. Rouge piggybacks on […]

Laura Geggel means well, but her “conclusive” headline is certain to be challenged in the future. Perhaps “One possible explanation for the weird hum, etc.” next time? Science can suggest explanations, but it’s never 100% since science is a tool rather than a belief structure. The tool is wielded by humans, who are notoriously fallible […]

If you thought the surveillance state was for landlubbers, think again! Not only are oceanographers eavesdropping on whales, but they’re listening for earthquakes, dead Cthulhu rolling over in R’lyeh, and high strangeness. If you swallowed the party line on the purported crash site of MH370, Tom Metcalfe uses a little thing called “science” to call […]

Here’s a little something, courtesy of Owen Jarus, worth mulling over into the wee small hours of the morning. Who was this 4,600 year old girl? How did she die? Was the Meidum pyramid a communal burial area? So many Egyptian mysteries to consider. Perhaps in time they’ll be solved, much like the popularity of […]