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Sacrificial Rites of the Secret Type: Monsters, Conspiracies and a Dangerous Pitchfork Source link
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Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. In all of the Universe, there is nothing quite so mind-bending as a black hole. Black holes are usually the corpses of long-dead stars — ones that lived and died in a blinding flash called a supernova. This cataclysmic explosion crushes the core to densities billions of times greater than…
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Mysterious Stonehenge Jewelry Makers Discovered in a 4,000-Year-Old Grave Source link
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Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. In their ongoing hunt for extraterrestrial life, astronomers are searching for three key ingredients: liquid water, a source of energy, and complex organic molecules, which make up the basic building blocks of life as we know it. If a planet has all three, it’s considered a more promising location for…
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Neural connections are at the heart of modern science, providing the framework through which scientists explain memory, perception, learning, and even consciousness. The microscopic contacts between brain cells transmit signals that account for various aspects of our complex consciousness—at least in theory. However, Tamlyn Hunt, a philosopher and neuroscientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has proposed an alternative hypothesis in an article for Scientific American. Hunt suggests that the key to understanding consciousness…