#News Briefs 03-05-2024
In our desperation to search for ET intelligence, we’ve forgotten to look at other life on Earth…
Wounded orangutan in Indonesia observed self-medicating using a paste made from plants.
Pet #parrots prefer live video-calls over watching pre-recorded videos of other birds.
The mysteries of #plant ‘intelligence’: scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom.
The #children who #remember their #past-lives.
The Pentagon is lying about UFOs.
Where does #consciousness come from? It could all be vibrations.
Alien Earths: how to find habitable worlds in our galaxy.
Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted.
How AI is testing the boundaries of human intelligence.
DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say.
How the world’s largest octopus went from legendary cryptid to protected species.
Tolkien’s Middle-Earth wasn’t a place. It was a time in (English) history.
New evidence ancient Mars was more Earth-like than thought – and maybe even habitable.
#Quote of the Day:
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as “human rights”? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
Carl Sagan
