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Scientists Observed A Brainless Blob Thinking And Making Decisions – Motherboard
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Becky Ferreria’s article is fertile ground to make politician jokes, except the discovery is tremendously fascinating. Slime molds may very well have a brain, just not as we know it, and researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University have unambiguous data demonstrating thought in slime molds. […]

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NASA Is Quietly Funding A Hunt For Alien Megastructures – Motherboard
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Here’s a takeaway about extraterrestrial biosignatures — greyfaces can easily argue “Oh those compounds are naturally occuring” and put the kibosh on any sensawunda. Cases in point — phosphenes on Venus and methane on Mars. Technosignatures, on the other hand, may be harder to refute. Madeleine Gregory outlines the four grants awarded by NASA to […]

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Meet The Scientist Who Is Preparing For Humanity's First Contact With Aliens – Motherboard Vice
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Spoiler — It’s not Avi Loeb. Now that you’re aware of that, hang around for Becky Ferreira’s chat with Mike Garrett on the protocols to tell humanity we’ve detected aliens, the importance of full (pardon the term) disclosure, and why no one can be certain what exactly we’ll find out there in the cosmos. Fortunately […]

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Government Physics Experiment Suggests Something Unknown Is Influencing Reality – Motherboard
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Unlike the Higgs-Boson, muons are old hat for particle physicists. Back in 2001 scientists observed something weird about muons, and now they’ve reproduced the high strangeness and are more certain the strangeness is real rather than an artifact, opening the door to potentially new physics according to Becky Ferreira. Better yet, in 18 months perhaps […]

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Internet Occultists Are Trying To Change Reality With A Magickal Algorithm – Motherboard
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Surrounded by a world that doesn’t care what you believe, it’s unsurprising people are turning to magick as a last-ditch effort for sanity and empowerment. Somewhere out there is a Sigil Engine, don’t worry Tamlin Magee links to it, to facilitate manifesting one’s Will in according to the Law. Believe? Don’t believe? Tamlin lays out […]

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You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date – Vice Motherboard
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The CIA collection of UFO documents we reported on September 3rd as now available to the public has been converted to a more usable format, owing to the work of The Black Vault master John Greenewald, Jr., says Samir Ferdowsi. Ferdowsi’s article quotes from an email regarding Greenewald’s process, but conveyed a wrong impression about […]

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A Bizarre Spacecraft 'Flyby Anomaly' Has Been Baffling Scientists For 30 Years – Motherboard
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Science is about reproducable phenomena, and for decades NASA and other space agencies have been taking advantage of a little extra boost from flying probes past Earth. Except sometimes those probes wind up a little faster, sometimes a little slower, and nobody knows why but they continue to use it. Becky Ferreira digs into this […]

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Scientists Uncovered a Hidden Pattern in a Mysterious Signal from Space – Motherboard
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China may begin its SETI survey in a few months, but it seems some eggheads at the University of Manchester may have beaten them to the punch. In short, a mysterious fast radio burst has been found to have a 157 day cycle. And Becky Ferreira’s revelations just become more stunning. Pretty awesome news especially […]

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UFO Conspiracy Theorists Offer 'Ascension' From Our Hell World for $333 – Motherboard
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Every once in a while an article gets one’s blood boiling. This is one of those pieces. MJ Banias lets the words of New Age Ufology gurus David Wilcock and Corey Goode make his points about “peddling salvation, protection from the ‘illuminati deep state,’ and bogus COVID-19 explanations to millions on YouTube.” Banias references other […]

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This Is the Real Estate Magnate Who Bought Skinwalker Ranch, a UFO Hotspot – Vice Motherboard
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In our first candidate for interview coup of the year, MJ Banias publishes the name and picks the brain of the individual who owns “the paranormal Disneyland” of “Hunt for the Skinwalker” fame. Brandon Fugal says it’s not in the cards to make Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch a “tourist destination,” but of course it is subject […]

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