🔎 The Curiosity Files #18
Curiously exploring the mysteries of our past, present, and future
“Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure behind reality?” Albert Einstein
Welcome to The Curiosity Files!
Twice a week, I’ll journey through the most fascinating discoveries across ancient history, human origins, space, consciousness, cutting-edge science and the unexplained.
🗿 Ancient Mysteries, Archaeology & Lost Civilizations
I Snuck into Gobekli Tepe…What I Saw Was Shocking.
Jimmy Corsetti went to Turkey and documented disturbing new details involving the ancient sites of Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, and Sayburc.
The Shroud of Turin is Real.
A 2022 X-ray dating study indicates the Shroud is approximately 2,000 years old, aligning with the crucifixion era. A $1 million challenge to replicate its enigmatic image underscores its mystery.
9,000-year-old rock sketches proves early humans knew all about dinosaurs.
The sketches differed in style, hinting that multiple humans were involved. The team believe the carvings were deliberately placed next to the dinosaur prints with some as close as two to four inches away.
📖 Today’s Book
Cosmic Memory: The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the Sexes by Rudolf Steiner
In the best tradition of ancient wisdom literature, Cosmic Memory reconstructs, from the akashic record, events that span the time between the origin of the Earth and the beginning of recorded history. This spiritual research includes a profound investigation of the origins, achievements, and fate of the Atlanteans and Lemurians―the remarkable “lost” root races that developed the first concepts of “good” and “evil,” manipulated natural forces, laid the foundation for human legal and ethical systems, and defined and nurtured the distinctive yet complementary powers of men and women that brought humankind, many centuries ago, to its highest artistic, intellectual, and spiritual attainments.
🌌 Cosmic & Space Mysteries
NASA spacecraft finds a layer of diamonds 10-miles thick on planet Mercury.
Mercury is scorched and easy to overlook, yet the innermost planet keeps tossing cosmic curveballs. Now researchers suggest an even wilder twist: a layer of diamond roughly 10 miles thick may sit inside the planet.
How the sun’s motion affects meteor showers.
Comets, planets, and moons, and more intricately dance around our solar system.
Mars’ Magnetic Mystery: How a Molten Core Created a One-Sided Shield.
Mars’ magnetic mystery may finally have a solution—scientists now think the Red Planet’s ancient magnetic field only existed in its southern hemisphere.
Mars May Have Experienced a Great Dying Event Similar to Earth's.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has reported “evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars,” according to a recent press release. These new findings could help researchers better understand if and how Mars ever supported life.
Obscure 100-Year Solar Cycle May Have Hit Minimum – Expect More Activity For Decades To Come.
We do not know why there is a cycle of roughly 11 years or why the magnetic field of the Sun flips every two cycles – one explanation calls into question the gravitational pull of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter. But there are longer cycles happening as well, and one of them is called the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle.
🧠 The Mind, Consciousness & the Origins of Life
Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved that Perceived Reality is an Illusion!
Learn why consciousness may be more fundamental than physics, how your brain isn’t conscious — but is simply a representation within consciousness, why evolution selected for perception that hides the truth, how AI may already be tapping into conscious patterns, the mind-bending evidence from game theory and mathematics that suggest reality is a constructed hallucination and much more…
Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors.
It’s now clear that a great deal of information carried by touch neurons converges in the spinal cord and brainstem before reaching the cognitive parts of the brain, suggesting that the touch signals are processed earlier.
The Man Behind the CIA’s Consciousness Model—Killed in the Deadliest Plane Crash in U.S. History.
This Man’s model for Consciousness used by the CIA believed that consciousness and physical reality are deeply connected through vibration. His main idea was that everything in the universe—from atoms to humans to the entire cosmos—is vibrating, and these vibrations are what create and shape reality.
How Thoughts Influence What the Eyes See.
The findings challenge the traditional view that early sensory areas in the brain are simply “looking” or “recording” visual input. In fact, the human brain’s visual system actively reshapes how it represents the exact same object depending on what you’re trying to do.
🦠 Evolutionary Oddities & Life on Earth
Origins of Earth's Water May Not Be as Complicated as We Thought.
A new study by researchers from the University of Oxford and the UK's national synchrotron science facility challenges the theory that water arrived via special delivery. In fact, water may have been part of Earth's makeup all along.
What are milky seas? 400 years of sailors’ stories are shedding light on ocean bioluminescence.
“Milky seas are incredible expressions of our biosphere whose significance in nature we have not yet fully determined,” says Professor Steven Miller, co-author of a new study about the database. “Their very existence points to unexplored connections between the surface and the sky, and between microscopic to the global scale roles of bacteria in the Earth system.
A secret mathematical rule has shaped the beaks of birds and other dinosaurs for 200 million years.
This simple mathematical rule captures how the width of a pointed structure, like a beak, expands from the tip to the base. We call this rule the "power cascade." If the power cascade is truly a foundational growth rule in bird beaks, we may expect to find it hiding in many other forms across the tree of life.
New explanation for muscle memory found in muscle proteins: memory traces from resistance training persist for over two months.
Researchers investigated the quantities of thousands of muscle proteins and found a possible new explanation for muscle memory. A study at the University of Jyväskylä showed for the first time that muscles “remember” training at the protein level.
🚀 Cutting-Edge Science & Technology
“Scientists Don’t Yet Fully Understand” These Intriguing New Gravitational Wave Detectors Designed by AI.
A series of promising designs for new gravitational wave detectors have been developed with a helping hand from artificial intelligence, which have left scientists with new questions about the cosmos.
🛸 The Unexplained & the Unusual
DICOM pass of CT scan for tridactyl Nasca mummy Maria.
Have they been here?
When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think.
Are we alone? New discovery raises hopes of finding alien life.
Tentative evidence for life on a distant world is exciting, but unconfirmed. As new telescopes bring exoplanets into sharper focus, is the truth out there?
US warship sailor confirms seeing mysterious flying ships emerging from ocean.
In February 2023, during routine operations off the coast of Southern California, the crew of the US Navy’s Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Jackson recorded a sequence of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) exhibiting anomalous behavior.
🌀 Beyond the Known
Dark Matter May Be a Frequency – And We’re About to Dial It In.
Scientists may be just 15 years away from finally detecting dark matter thanks to a new kind of detector that acts like a “cosmic car radio.”
This Impossible New Color Is So Rare That Only Five People Have Seen It
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it. Teal is as close as you can get to seeing the new color without having your eyes lasered.
How quantum mechanics changed science forever.
Quantum mechanics’ success shows that science has no fixed rules: progress is often made by breaking from conventional standards of rationality. This needn’t leave us in anarchy, unable to distinguish between good and bad science, as some fear: we just need to be more pragmatic when it comes to judging whether a theory is any good.
Which story intrigued you the most? Let me know in the comments below and provide links to any curiosities you have found!
Until next time, stay curious!
Your last link doesn't work, fyi.
Itzhak Bentov was a genius (the man killed in a plane crash). I, too, recently thought it was odd that he was.
The reason they are in no hurry to excavate Gobleki Tepe is because, like most archaeology, it's fake. So, there is nothing else to uncover until they decide to build something else.
Just look at it. It's obviously modern. That's why it was allegedly mysteriously buried. It was recently created, then buried, then dug up again.
Oh, and the pyramids were built by Napoleon and his army of engineers.and archeologists that he took along with him on his Egypt campaign. That's why there is no record of them before 1800.
The all things Egypt craze dates from then.
They are not mentioned in the bible. The Greeks and Romans never bothered to remark on them. Even Isaac Newton in his Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Redated seemed unaware of their existence.
How strange.
The pyramids depicted before then, as mentioned by Jesuit 'scholar' Athanasius Kircher, the father of Egyptology in the 17th century, are clearly the ones to be found at Meroë in Sudan.
Even the Jesuit head of the Cairo mission, Claude Sicard, who allegedly produced the earliest known map of Egypt in the early 1700s made no mention of them, even though they are only a few miles away from Cairo. How could he have missed them? They are not hard to spot, are they?
These Jesuits turn up everywhere and are consumate liars. Just like the recently late Pope. Never trust a Jesuit.
You are being played.