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theatlantic.comThe Dark Side of MindfulnessA prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

theconversation.com‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questionsEach study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn’t tell you all that much.

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‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questions theconversation.com/a-study-show...

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unilad.comDoctor who interviewed 1,500 people before they died reveals what nearly 90% experience before deathDr. Christopher Kerr is a pioneering hospice physician, neurobiologist and CEO who has spent 30 years studying death

jasoncolavito.comOn the Growing Claims of Lockheed's Secret Fleet of Space Alien Flying SaucersIn the wake of Jay Stratton’s new memoir Out of the Shadows , which debuted at number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list (BookScan sales totals won’t be available until next week),...

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axios.comChain-reaction chaos threatens to unleash new risks on the worldAs a nation and as a globe, we're facing a record number of wild risks that are way outside our control.

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dwpasulka.substack.comUFO News: Reading Between the Lines in Jay Stratton’s Out of the ShadowsGovernment secrecy, demonic malign harassment, and the race to own the narrative of nonhuman intelligence

D.W. Pasulka: UFO News: Reading Between the Lines in Jay Stratton’s Out of the Shadows / Government secrecy, demonic malign harassment, and the race to own the narrative of nonhuman intelligence dwpasulka.substack.com/p/ufo-news-r...

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angelmillar.comStory over Spectacle: Sci-Fi’s Counterintuitive Lesson for LuxuryScience fiction has a counterintuitive lesson for luxury, branding, and AI. In 1977, the original Star Wars movie was released. Almost immediately, it was everywhere, all the time. Children (and pr…

theconversation.comAncestors all around – millions of dead people linger in Americans’ memoriesThe shadow population of deceased relatives is more than three times as large as today’s living population.

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breakingdefense.comRussian satellite stalked ICEYE spacecraft in potentially dangerous on-orbit maneuvers - Breaking DefenseThe Cosmos 2612 came within 500 meters (about a third of a mile) to US-flagged ICEYE-X36 believed to be supporting Ukraine, according to LeoLabs.

axios.comAnthropic's IPO outlines AI's extraordinary risksThese are some of the most extreme IPO risk factors in history.

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sharonahill.comCapturing Bigfoot tells the story of the infamous Patterson film one person at a timeThere is almost always more to the explanation than you can imagine, and new information can come from the most surprising sources.

*** THIS *** Sharon A. Hill: Capturing Bigfoot tells the story of the infamous Patterson film one person at a time sharonahill.com/capturing-bi...

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nytimes.comWalter Koenig, Chekov From ‘Star Trek,’ Has DiedAs the baby-faced Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise, he was a mainstay of the original television series and seven films. He was 90.

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840): Moonrise by the Sea. Oil on canvas, 1822.

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared -->

2. "those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance." -- Neil Postman

Official Existential Comics canon: 1. Nietzsche was a virgin. 2. Leibniz wore two wigs on top of each other. 3. Wittgenstein was cool. 4. Carnap was not cool. 5. Plato could kick every other philosophers' ass in a fight.

"Faith is not certainty but something more like a committed struggle to understand in the face of the palpable mystery of the world." ~ Tim Crane

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dailygrail.comFossil Angels: Reinventing the Arte of Magick as the Magic of ArtRegard the world of magic. A scattering of occult orders which, when not attempting to disprove each other’s provenance, are either cryogenically suspended in their ritual rut, their game of Aiwaz Says, or else seem lost in some Dungeons & Dragons sprawl of channelled spam, off mapping some unfalsifiable and thus completely valueless new universe before they’ve demonstrated that they have so much as a black-lacquered fingernail’s grip on the old one. Self-consciously weird transmissions from Tourette’s-afflicted entities, from glossolalic […]

See also: Alan Moore's essay "Fossil Angels: Reinventing the arte of magick as the magic of art". www.dailygrail.com/2020/04/foss...

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🔭 Rosetta's Selfie Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA ap261024

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People used to say they didn't want to vote for the lesser of two evils and now just hope they have a president one day who doesn't have reasons to pardon literally thousands of staffers & contractors.

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theconversation.comWhat is peer review? The role anonymous experts play in scrutinizing research before it gets publishedPeer review is an important step after a researcher has carried out a scientific study but before it gets published by a journal and shared with the world.

vice.comScientists Found a Disturbing Pattern in Reincarnation Stories, and They Can't Explain WhyA new study uncovered a surprising pattern in alleged reincarnation cases, including a difference involving people who died unexpectedly.

poeticoutlaws.substack.com17 Incredible Passages from Fernando Pessoa's 'The Book of Disquiet'What’s become of the living?

17 Incredible Passages from Fernando Pessoa's 'The Book of Disquiet'

lithub.comOn the History of the Aes Sidhe, Ireland’s Seductively Dangerous FairiesIn the legends, hundreds of words go into describing the extreme attractiveness of the aes sidhe—their perfect hair, their perfect bodies, their perfect clothes (in one case, even their perfect kne…

The Archangel Michael casts the rebel angels out of Heaven. Illustration by Gustave Doré for John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Autumn Landscape, c. 1899, watercolor on silk by Hishida Shunso (Japan, 1874-1911), the pseudonym of Hishida Miyoji, a painter from the Meiji period. / Beth Levin

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🔭 Andromeda in Southern Spring Credit & Copyright: Lucy Yunxi Hu ap261023

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People used to talk about the physical toll on pro athletes with all the injuries and meds and all, and I’d think, well, driving and unloading trucks for little money and surviving on food stamps takes a toll too! lol

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"Did you hear about AI—" No, please. I don't care. "But Claude—" I said no, did you not hear me? "But Meta's new AI agent—" SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. >>Me, every goddam day.<< Generative AI is the most boring and annoying technology I have experienced in my long life as a tech enthusiast.

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theguardian.comBad apple effect: study shows how people are influenced by rule-breaking of othersResearch shows how seeing bigger violations by others can lead people to increase their own rule-breaking

theconversation.comScience costs money – research is guided by who funds it and whyThe federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support research that has a clearer eventual payoff.

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axios.comMysterious "flying triangle" sighting leads new government release of UFO documentsThe U.S. doesn't have the technology to make the kind of craft reported recently by federal agents.

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gizmodo.comArchaeologists Thought Malta’s Mysterious Stone ‘Railways’ Were Prehistoric. The Evidence Tells a Different StoryArchaeologists have long contested the true origins of the numerous trails carved into the bedrocks of the Maltese archipelago. The answer may not be as mysterious as some hoped.

The mysterious ancient 'stone railways' of Malta might not be as mysterious (or ancient) as once thought. gizmodo.com/archaeologis...

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🔭 The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435 Credit & Copyright: Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick ap261022

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dailygrail.comNews Briefs 22-10-2026At The Grail, it’s always Spooky season. Thanks to Greg. Quote of the Day: Hate is the poison you take to see if the other one dies. Guillermo Del Toro

The Thursday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Scientists find bizarre pattern in reincarnation cases, why we probably live in a multiverse, the Gospel according to Peter Thiel, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/10/news...

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primevideo.comWatch Capturing Bigfoot online – Prime VideoThe explosive truth about Bigfoot's greatest mystery is finally revealed in this emotional story about how far people will go to protect a secret.

Watched the new documentary 'Capturing Bigfoot'. The headlines are all about the debunking of the Patterson-Gimlin film - but in truth, it's a great film because at its core is a human story about a boy who lost his father/hero at a young age (Clint Patterson). www.primevideo.com/detail/0JEZQ...

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Stephanie Quick

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This is a good conversation, grounded and not alarmist

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Join me and my actor/comedian/all around awesome pal Steve Berg for a discussion of extremism in esoteric and paranormal communities on the "High, Strangeness!" podcast. Despite the seriousness, we laugh a lot, because, well, Steve is one of the funniest people I know.

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patreon.comBehind the Grail 16-10-2026: Havana Syndrome | The Daily GrailHi Grailers! This week in our Behind the Grail chat, RPJ and I chat about the enigmatic and controversial 'Havana Syndrome', inspired by an

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