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OMG science
fromBig Think
1 day ago

To alien eyes, Earth looks deceptively peaceful

Earth is the only known planet with life, but also with conflict and destruction, presenting a complex reality from different perspectives.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Opinion | 4 Big U.F.O. Questions for the White House

The American government's interest in UFOs and aliens is hindered by journalistic embarrassment and the need for direct questioning to uncover truths.
Video games
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

How games capture the awe and terror of cosmic isolation

The Artemis II mission evokes feelings of solitude and vulnerability in space, reminiscent of experiences in classic and modern space-themed video games.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

The Unbearable Strangeness of Being

Cinga Samson's paintings evoke a haunting, incomprehensible world reflecting historical scars and spiritual alertness through unsettling imagery.
fromDefector
3 days ago

What Would You Do Behind The Moon? | Defector

Orion is hurtling toward where the Moon will be, not where it is-like a quarterback leading his receiver-they've already got a slightly different angle on the Moon than we do here on Earth.
Science
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

I have no close friends and I do not say that as a confession or a complaint - I say it as the most accurate thing I know about my life right now, and I am trying to hold it with honesty rather than explanation, and some days the honesty is enough and some days it is the loneliest sentence I know how to say - Silicon Canals

Not having close friends can lead to freedom and clarity rather than feelings of failure.
Writing
fromSilicon Canals
5 days ago

I'm 66 and the most important relationship of my adult life has been with solitude - not as a consolation for the company I didn't have, but as the place where I have always been most honest, most creative, and most recognizably myself, and I spent too many years being embarrassed about that before I understood it was simply how I was built - Silicon Canals

Solitude allows for self-discovery and personal reflection, free from societal expectations and external pressures.
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

What the Astronauts See That Trump Cannot

The film then reversed the trick and zoomed back toward that Chicago couple and into their bodies to show the equally breathtaking world of our insides, down to the molecular and atomic level.
OMG science
Film
fromVulture
1 week ago

What the Heck Is Going On in the Back Room in Backrooms?

A24's horror film Backrooms features a furniture-store employee discovering endless, eerie back rooms filled with unsettling sights.
fromMail Online
3 days ago

Launching 50,000 mirrors into space will 'significantly' disrupt sleep

The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale.
Science
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

How to Embrace Being "More" Spiritual

Awareness of the transcendent reveals depth and meaning in life, fostering spiritual growth and a sense of oneness with the world.
Design
fromDesign Milk
6 days ago

OUTSIDERS Investigates the Space Between Society and Solitude

Modern design challenges conventional public seating to enhance social interaction and presence in urban spaces.
OMG science
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Would Confirming the Existence of Aliens Shock Humanity?

President Trump ordered the release of UAP-related government files, potentially revealing evidence of nonhuman intelligence and impacting human understanding of reality.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Are We Blind to ET Communications Staring Us in the Face?

Despite decades of searching, SETI scientists have found no evidence of ET signals from space. The lack of success could be due to the staggering amount of data that must be collected and analyzed.
Science
Film
fromCN Traveller
2 weeks ago

'Project Hail Mary' and the eternal allure of lunar landscapes

Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling, is a major box office success filmed primarily at Shepperton Studios with additional scenes in various English locations.
Silicon Valley
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Marc Andreessen explains why he won't be jumping on Silicon Valley's ayahuasca trend

Marc Andreessen avoids psychedelics because he has observed tech founders who use them become peaceful but abandon their companies to pursue alternative lifestyles, preferring caffeine as his stimulant instead.
OMG science
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Mystery surge of giant fireballs sparks extraterrestrial questions

A significant surge in fireball sightings has raised concerns about potential asteroid threats and UFO speculation, but they are confirmed as natural meteors.
Music production
fromPitchfork
2 weeks ago

Hop Into These 14 Rabbit Holes This Spring

GLOBALCORE represents a blend of internet sound that unites diverse musical styles, but risks oversimplifying essential cultural differences.
#ai
Philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

I'm deathly afraid': what is digital spirituality leading us toward?

Jim Pu'u's journey with AI led to profound self-discovery and spiritual insights, transforming his understanding of love and abundance.
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Mental health

A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens

Philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

I'm deathly afraid': what is digital spirituality leading us toward?

Jim Pu'u's journey with AI led to profound self-discovery and spiritual insights, transforming his understanding of love and abundance.
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Mental health

A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens

Science
fromMail Online
1 week ago

NASA scientist backs evidence of non-human intelligence in our skies

A former NASA scientist confirmed mysterious sky flashes linked to early nuclear tests, supporting findings from a previous study by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel.
Independent films
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

'We Are Not Alone on Earth,' Warns Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg believes aliens exist and are currently on Earth, inspiring his first alien film in 21 years, Disclosure Day, premiering June 2026.
Travel
fromInsideHook
4 weeks ago

The "Mystic Outlands" Travel Trend Is About More Than Moody Landscapes

Pinterest's 'Mystic Outlands' trend predicts 2026 travel will focus on whimsical, mystical destinations featuring dramatic landscapes, ancient ruins, and enchanting forests, though the appeal of such places has endured for centuries.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Cosmic Closet: Why We Misjudge Others' UFO Beliefs

Most people believe intelligent extraterrestrial life exists, but hesitate discussing it due to perceived social stigma rather than actual skepticism.
Intellectual property law
fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban

Amazon obtained a court-ordered preliminary injunction banning Perplexity's AI browser Comet from accessing its website, with a seven-day administrative stay allowing Perplexity to appeal.
OMG science
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

Non-Earth News: Fossil Stars, an Asteroid Dripping With DNA, and 2 Dueling Planets

Astronomy news offers a refreshing escape from overwhelming current events, inspiring curiosity about the universe's vastness and history.
Medicine
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

Researchers are using extended DMT infusions to study prolonged psychedelic experiences and perceived encounters with nonhuman intelligent entities in controlled clinical settings.
Science
fromBig Think
4 weeks ago

A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality

While immortality is impossible due to thermodynamic laws, relativity reveals physical scenarios that maximize lifespan relative to the universe by manipulating spacetime through motion and gravity.
Miscellaneous
fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

I Tried New Tech That Claimed It Could Hack My Dreams | The Walrus

A sleep doctor's early fascination with unexplained nighttime deaths led him to establish one of Canada's first independent sleep laboratories, pioneering sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Journey Through the Wilderness to Freedom

Freedom is an inner psychological journey requiring navigation through wilderness patterns of seduction, denial, delusion, and rationalization, with four primary captors: addiction, false modesty, arrogance, and regression.
OMG science
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Will Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Shock Humanity?

President Trump's 2026 directive to release government UAP files could fundamentally challenge human worldviews if they confirm nonhuman intelligence, triggering psychological responses ranging from curiosity to existential distress.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Cave You Didn't Build

Plato's choice of this word is deliberate. He is not describing neutral carriers. He is describing people whose job is manufacturing a convincing reality for an audience that cannot see behind the curtain. Here is what matters clinically: the conjurers are not necessarily villains. They may be devoted parents, conscientious teachers, or well-meaning community leaders.
Philosophy
Science
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Unbearable Fear of Psi: When Skepticism Shifts to Denial

Scientific investigation of extraordinary human experiences encounters emotional resistance and dismissal that exceeds standard methodological critique, reflecting deeper discomfort with certain research topics rather than legitimate scientific skepticism.
fromGameSpot
1 month ago

Arc Raiders Players Are Seeing UFOs In The Sky

A handful of Arc Raiders players have reported seeing the silhouette of a large ship in the clouds, but so far, only a Reddit user called Bewarden captured the incident in a video. The ship appears to be massive, but there's no indication yet it's confirmation of aliens in this world.
Video games
Science
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Aliens have tried to contact us for YEARS - 'looking for wrong thing'

Space weather distortion near alien star systems may be broadening radio signals, causing Earth-based detectors optimized for narrow frequencies to miss extraterrestrial transmissions.
Science
fromMail Online
1 month ago

NASA astronaut says we're 'living a lie' after 178-day stay in space

Astronaut Ron Garan realized from space that humanity prioritizes economic growth over planetary life-support systems, requiring a fundamental reordering of priorities to planet, society, economy.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Flat Earth theory, talking raccoons and ghosts on strike: The fascinating world of the weird

Dan Schreiber documents global fringe beliefs and bizarre claims, revealing human eccentricity, committed conviction, and the odd humor and strangeness of these ideas.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Why some of us build entire worlds inside our heads and then feel homesick for places that never existed - Silicon Canals

Elaborate inner worlds built through imagination are common cognitive features that fulfill emotional needs, characterized by specific details and consistent logic that can persist for decades.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Did My Mother See Apparitions, Angels, Flashbacks or Ghosts?

A daughter witnesses her frail, long-depressed mother's final weeks filled with hallucinated conversations, brief warmth toward customers, and the painful invisibility of familial estrangement.
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

Something Has Shifted In The Air. We All Feel It.

Again. It was happening again. Not even three weeks ago, federal agents murdered a mother of three named Renee Good. A few days before that, another federal immigration officer shot and killed Keith Porter, Jr. in Los Angeles. Daily, our city network of concerned citizens is documenting the injustices happening against our neighbors. Pittsburgh - like America itself - would not exist without immigrants, yet we watch them be dehumanized and terrorized hourly in what has long been known as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
US politics
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Quiet Power of Awe

Awe shifts attention away from the self, increases connectedness, broadens perspective, and small moments of attention counter burnout and numbness.
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Breathtaking Longexposure Skies For Everyone Who Dreams Beyond Earth

A curated roundup of striking visual work across photography, illustration, digital fantasy, surreal collages, conceptual design, and provocative photo manipulations.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Turns Cyberpunk Skylines Into Soft PoetryNeon Streets, Snowfall And Silence In A Parallel Universe

A wide variety of contemporary visual art and design projects spanning surreal mash-ups, comics, illustration, generative art, photography, design, and cultural commentary.
fromFuncheap
2 months ago

Atomic vs Satori

Come join us for the clash (more like a love-fest) of two beloved San Jose staple nights! Satori and Atomic have been putting on memorable dance parties in San Jose full of new and classic Goth, Darkwave, New Wave, Electro, Indie and Industrial for decades. For one night only, we unite to play all the bangers until you just can't dance anymore!
Music
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

The Nightmares Beneath the Surface of "Dreamworlds"

The timing could not be better: We have much to learn in this moment from a movement that was both explicitly antifascist and radically hopeful - and from how the not-so-antifascist Dalí broke from it. But Dreamworlds presents precious little of the historical and political context - for example, the birth of the movement out of the grotesque terrors of World War I - that would help viewers grasp the relevance of what's in front of them.
Arts
Books
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

What a Fantasy Can Reveal About Real Life

Fictional lies and imagined worlds can reveal deeper human truths through protagonists who fabricate realities, exposing inner desires, vulnerabilities, and psychological unraveling.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Higher States of Consciousness

A few years ago, I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I'd been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception. Everything around me became intensely real. The fields and the bushes and trees and the clouds seemed more vivid, more intricate and beautiful.
Mindfulness
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

This Artist Layers Traditional Ink With Digital Glows To Quest Unconscious Realms Of Surreal Meaning

A wide-ranging showcase of contemporary visual art, illustration, street art, photography, cosplay, and social projects celebrating creativity and cultural reinterpretation.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How far are we from finding exomoons and exorings?

Giant planets in our solar system and around other stars likely possess numerous moons and rings, which astronomers can detect indirectly through transit methods and light curve analysis.
fromAeon
2 months ago

Our Universe has light not by chance but by necessity | Aeon Videos

Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in everyday life, helping them to navigate, learn from, and connect with the world around them. Yet it's not particularly difficult to imagine life without it. After all, many nonhuman animals live in lightless environments. However, as Gideon Koekoek, an associate professor of physics in the research group Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics
Philosophy
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Early Signs of Spiritual Awakening

Spiritual awakening involves heightened self-awareness, dissatisfaction with external experiences, increased sensitivity, and emotional release leading to deeper understanding of self and reality.
Science
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

How Michael Pollan Expanded His Consciousness

Michael Pollan's "A World Appears" explores consciousness by combining neuroscience, philosophy, literature, and psychedelics research to understand how neurons create selfhood and why consciousness evolved.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Hyperphantasia: When Imagination Is as Vivid as Real Life

Close your eyes and picture an apple. Most people see something-a faint, slightly blurry image, less vivid than a real apple. A few, however, will see it as clearly as if it were sitting right in front of them. This ability is called hyperphantasia. Hyperphantasia, literally meaning "beyond imagination," refers to exceptionally vivid mental imagery. It is often described as the opposite of aphantasia, a condition in which people report little or no ability to form mental images.
Psychology
Mindfulness
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Sacredness of the Everyday

Joan Halifax combines deep contemplative practice with sustained, hands-on compassionate action across medical missions, hospice care, prison ministry, homelessness work, and peace activism.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Do Aliens from Other Planets Also Believe in Gods?

My prediction is based on only two assumptions. First, our visitors from space can die; they are not immortal. Second, they care about each other. When one of their own dies, they mourn them, just as humans do. These assumptions, I think, will have led these aliens to invent gods and a belief in the afterlife. Belief in the afterlife, where we defeat death and are reunited with loved ones who have died, is the basis of all past and current religions.
Philosophy
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Quote of the day by Carl Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - Silicon Canals

Unconscious patterns and autopilot behavior drive most decisions, causing repeated life outcomes until they are consciously examined and changed.
Mindfulness
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

Women Are Sharing The Most Unhinged Woo Woo Things That Have Changed Their Life

Experimenting with unconventional 'woo woo' rituals can provide simple, low-risk ways to reduce stress and increase feelings of optimism and control.
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

Is the whole universe just a simulation?

Reality could be an advanced artificial simulation; technological progress in computing, virtual reality, and AI makes such simulations increasingly conceivable.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Did Meaning Emerge in a Meaningless Universe?

Meaning arises when physical correlations acquire evolutionary significance in living systems, grounding aboutness in biological value, neural representations, social symbols, and cultural narratives.
Science
fromBig Think
2 months ago

Yes, one image from space can change humanity's perspective

Astronomical images transformed human perspective by revealing a vast, comprehensible universe in which Earth is neither cosmically central nor uniquely designed for humanity.
fromMail Online
2 months ago

I have a warning for humanity after I died for 32 seconds

In a cloud-like space described as the afterlife, she was met by the souls of her deceased loved ones from her current life, as well as from past lives. Although her heart only stopped for 32 seconds, Harris claimed her experience didn't end in the afterlife, as she was also transported to two other planets and saw herself living as an alien on each of them.
Philosophy
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Consciousness can connect you to the entire UNIVERSE, theory suggests

Your consciousness can connect you with the entire universe, a groundbreaking study suggests. Experts from Wellesley College in Massachusetts claim that traditional connections in the brain cannot fully explain how we are aware of our existence. Instead, they argue that quantum physics taking place within our skull is what generates awareness. This includes the idea that particles can exist in multiple states and locations at the same time.
Science
#immortality
fromAeon
2 months ago
Philosophy

Would immortality offer a curse of boredom or endless novelty? | Aeon Videos

fromAeon
2 months ago
Philosophy

Would immortality offer a curse of boredom or endless novelty? | Aeon Videos

fromAeon
2 months ago
Philosophy

Would immortality offer a curse of boredom or endless novelty? | Aeon Videos

fromAeon
2 months ago
Philosophy

Would immortality offer a curse of boredom or endless novelty? | Aeon Videos

Science
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter-dominated object representing a primordial, failed galaxy fragment and offering a probe into dark matter.
Science
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

35 Extremely Obvious Things I Just Learned For The First Time That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind

Alligator and crocodile visuals differ; Japanese TV labels uneaten food with "the staff ate it later"; coin mints sometimes produce misprinted pennies.
Science
fromWIRED
2 months ago

The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus

Scientists develop rigorous techniques to search for potential alien artifacts in the solar system, including using pre-1957 archival sky images, while maintaining high evidence standards.
fromBig Think
1 month ago

Ask Ethan: Will anything persist when the Universe dies?

Star-formation will eventually end, and then the last shining stars will burn out. Galaxies will dissociate due to gravitational interactions, ejecting all masses and leaving only supermassive black holes behind. And then those black holes will decay via Hawking radiation, leaving only cold, stable, isolated bodies, from which no further energy can be extracted, all accelerating away from us within our dark energy-dominated Universe.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

To infinity and beyond Earth's pale blue dot: Books in brief

This spectacular book of photographs of the Universe is dedicated to the late astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore, who introduced the authors to one another. Astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson, rock guitarist Brian May - who also holds a PhD in astrophysics - and astrophotographer J.-P. Metsävainio showcase some of the "billions of vast glowing islands in the immensity of what seems like infinite space and time". Several of the photos appear in adjacent pairs, visible in 3D with a stereo-focusing viewer.
Science
Science
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Consciousness exists BEYOND death, bombshell study claims

Consciousness can persist beyond measurable brain and circulatory cessation, and death may be a gradual, potentially reversible process.
Science
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

Space Cowboys

Billionaire suborbital flights spark controversy over priorities but contribute to engineering advancement and US space capability while raising valid ethical and practical questions.
Science
fromtheconversation.com
2 months ago

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

Different fundamental physical theories treat time incompatibly, causing time to stretch, slow, or even disappear when those frameworks are combined.
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