Time marches on, as the saying goes, but never retreats nor looks back, even with the rear-view mirror of jouissance. Maybe not anymore, according to a clutch of eggheads who offer something completely different. Rafi Letzter does a fine job with the crunchy numbers, but Sequoyah Kennedy does a bang-up job bringing this epiphany to […]
While this beauty wasn’t declared extinct, she did drop out of the running for the World Hide-And-Seek championship. If Corallus cropanii can easily take a decades-long holiday from human scrutiny, how many others are giggling at our bumblings in the bush? From Mind Weisberger’s news brief to Sam Wong’s announcement of New Species Of Bushbaby […]
Scientists digging at Quilcapampa in the Sihuas Valley in Peru have uncovered designs carved into the earth, interwoven rings that appear to have been used to map the flow of people and goods in and out of the valley. This discovery is significant as it points to a more interactive trade relationship between shore and […]
These are the latest archaeological anomalies betrayed to the global media in high definition by advanced airborne technologies–LiDAR. Archaeologists have observed a series of geometrically-spiralling earthen mounds that radiate outward from the old Khmer temple complexes, snaking through heavily urban ancient landscapes previously thought uninhabited by scholars of the Angkorian period in the 12th and […]
After recovering from a bacterial infection, Landon Jones no longer gets hungry. Doctors are stumped, leaving them wondering about its cause since the infection was in Landon’s lung. Our fingers are crossed, along with Tanya Lewis’s, that something works for the kid. For all of its issues, materialist medicine works. Not belly fat burning detoxes […]
Ebola’s all the rage, if you follow mainstream news, but there’s stuff out there far stranger than a fatal virus that only melts you from the inside. One in seven people suffer from ‘confusional arousal’ which isn’t as fun as you’d think! We’re happy Tanya Lewis isn’t prone to this malady, lending lucidity to investigations […]
Can you say, ‘fractoluminescence’, anomalists? We knew you could. So can a clutch of Rutgers researchers investigating the enduring earthquake enigma that’s been ignored in the past, says Charles Choi. Try as they might, these physicists can’t ‘write-off’, or damn, the strange currents generated by shifting particulates, leaving them to wonder what happens as the […]
Here’s a new word to add to your lexicon, dysanaesthesia. It’s the state of mind where people are responsive to commands but aren’t affected by surgical pain. This could be the first empirical clue to consciousness being non-local, but Bahar Gholipour stays on the safe side of the fence to discuss its practical implementation in […]
Long ago and far away, before greys entered our consciousness, elves held sway in the night and the shadowy corners of our minds. Ben Radford runs down the evolution of these fair folk over the centuries, musing upon their persistence in pop culture. Having whet your appetite, hie thee to your local bookseller to acquire […]
Is our world objective or subjective? Are all experiences a priori or a posteriori? Gleefully treading where materialists do not dare, Tanya Lewis has the latest data concerning perception and consciousness. Three recent experiments lay the groundwork for a greater understanding of the divide between faith and perception, and maybe the fuzzy areas inbetween. Further […]