Honeybees Can Recognize Human Faces
The ability to tell individual faces apart was long thought to be exclusive to large-brained mammals. A number of recent studies have pointed out that some wasps can recognize friends in the hive, and human faces, too.
Google puts money on robots, using the man behind Android
“If Amazon can imagine delivering books by drones, is it too much to think that Google might be planning to one day have one of the robots hop off an automated Google Car and race to your doorstep to deliver a package?”
NASA Spacecraft Captures Color Video of 20,000 Mile-wide Jetstream at Saturn’s North Pole
NASA announced this week that its Cassini spacecraft has managed to capture a first-of-its-kind film of the monstrous jet stream roiling at Saturn’s north pole. The short GIF, using color filters, shows currents of air moving at 200 miles-per-hour.
How US Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty
The 126-page report details how prosecutors throughout the United States extract guilty pleas from federal drug defendants by charging or threatening to charge them with offenses carrying harsh mandatory sentences and by seeking additional mandatory increases to those sentences. Prosecutors offer defendants a much lower sentence in exchange for pleading guilty.
“Stage of Mind”
Korean artist Jee Young Lee explores surreal and psychedelic spaces through set-design and photography. No Photoshop and the results are stunning.
Jasun Horsley Takes on Transhumanism
In his inaugural column on Omni Reboot, RS Author Jasun Horsley goes toe to toe with Ray Kurzweil, challenging the Singularity’s high profile proponent on some of the movement’s fundamental assumptions.
Dogma & Heresy – Rupert Sheldrake featured in the Oxford Student
Controversial “heretic” of science Rupert Sheldrake is featured in a new article published on The Oxford Student website.
Advances in Parapsychological Research
The latest edition of Advances in Parapsychological Research is now available.
The Medium Exposed? Or, a Modern Spiritualistic Séance (1906)
A good example of what the skeptical sub-culture seems to assume happens in all cases of mediumship. However, real science isn’t based on assumptions, and we have to ask if in some cases, there might not be something more going on.
Studies Undermine Antidepressants Paradigm
“Modern drug trials for antidepressants seldom take into account the fact that people with depression often get better on their own…researchers found that the overwhelming majority of patients recovered (defined as ‘no or minimal depressive symptoms in a 3-month period’), regardless of the level of treatment.”