Noetic science is the science of consciousness, from the Greek word meaning inner wisdom, direct knowing, or subjective understanding.

According to researchers at the University of California San Diego, your stem cells can’t sleep in outer space. As a result, they become zombies.

The first American police car was an EV made by the Collins Buggy Company in 1899 for the city of Akron, Ohio.

The 1960s band the Turtles, composed of Howard Kaylan, the late Mark Volman, and others, lost the rights to the band’s name to their record company, which also had the rights to Kaylan’s and Volman’s actual names. In post-Turtles years, they performed under the name “Flo & Eddie.”

If you use bay leaves in cooking, it’s most likely they’re from the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). But there’s also the California bay laurel, Indian bay leaf, West Indian bay laurel, Indonesian bay leaf, and Mexican bay laurel.

This article appears in September 19 • 2025.

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