2023 was quite a year. Militarization and wars and battlefields distract much of the world’s attention from the imminent presence of increasingly unpredictable weather redirecting the way everyone lives. From a historic and political perspective “In too many ways, 2024 looks like 1914. The world situation is just tooread more
A recent analysis of the DNA of the controversial Nazca Mummies show that 30 percent of their DNA is “not from any known species,” according to Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan; although he previously said that this portion of their genetic makeup was “unknown”, this update purports that the DNA specificallyread more
New insights into an unexplained anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field that occurred 3,000 years ago have been brought to light through the examination of Bronze Age clay bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings that ruled during the era. The timing of the anomaly also allowed historians toread more
In a case that seems for all the world like a silicon-based ouroboros, the unprecedented proliferation of AI-generated material on the internet could result in the rapid disintegration of the quality of the output of AI that trains itself on this synthetic content—an effect dubbed ‘model collapse’ by the researchersread more