The Increasing Amount of Atmospheric CO2 is Weakening Our Bones
Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Can Bring About Visions of the ‘Little People’of Yunnan
Certain mushrooms sold by street vendors in China’s southern province of Yunnan come with a friendly warning: cook them thoroughly, or “you will see the xiao ren ren,” the “little people”, a lilliputian invasion caused by a naturally-occurring hallucinogen neutralized by the heat provided from cooking the fungus. Curiously, the appearance of these diminutive creatures is consistent amongst […]
The Father of Ancient Astronaut Theory, Erich von Däniken, has Died
Erich von Däniken, the father of ancient astronaut theory, passed away at the age of 90 on January 11, 2026, at a hospital in Interlaken, Switzerland. Born in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen in 1935, von Däniken authored the seminal 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? that launched the idea that ancient cultures such as the […]
Humans Started Using Fire 350,000 Years Earlier than Previously Thought
A new archaeological discovery has radically rewritten the timeline of when humans first began using fire, pushing the earliest known use of fire to roughly 400,000 years ago—eight times older than the previously-oldest evidence for fire use by humans, dated to only 50,000 years ago. This discovery has profound implications for human evolution—both in terms […]