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We explore how headphones deliver sonic information to your brain. The post A tiny band in your ears: how do headphones actually work? first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

CJ Hopkins, like most of us, has been seeing mindless gibberish about what happened on 7 October in Israel and the aftermath for seven months now. As he explains, Hamas’ attack on […]

by Leo Hohmann, Leo Hohmann: One of NATO’s primary missions is to spread instability throughout the world, using the military-industrial complex to bully and intimidate countries non-compliant with a militant anti-family anti-God agenda flowing out of Western capitals and promoted by Western media. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg asserted on Friday the alliance’s commitment to […]

This boyfriend’s magical proposal was right out of a romance book — literally! Bonnie Barton, who describes herself as “an avid reader,” was blown away by the way her partner, Chris, popped the question. He arranged for the special moment to take place at the couple’s favorite bookstore. While this was pretty thoughtful in itself, it was nothing compared to surprise that was waiting there! Standing on a display shelf was a book cover that Bonnie’s boyfriend had designed especially for the proposal! Titled, Marry Me, Mon Cutie, the thick tome featured a custom illustration of the couple walking together. When the woman opened the book, there were no words inside — just a beautiful engagement ring! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bonnie Barton (@flashesofstyle) There was one more incredibly special touch on the back cover, though. Loved ones had written their endorsements and best wishes to the happy couple in a heartwarming “advance praise” section! Underneath that, there was a photo of Bonnie and Chris, where they were listed as the authors of the love story. A short bio of their relationship recalled how they met. This might be the most romantic proposal ever! Bonnie couldn’t have been more touched by this stunning, book-themed proposal. She shared the sweetest video of the romantic moment on social media. Everyone in the bookstore applauded for the engaged couple! “The most special proposal for a book lover like me, from the man of my dreams,” read the bride-to-be’s caption. “I cannot wait to marry my best friend!!” Screengrab from Instagram Even commenters were swept off their feet by this grand gesture. “This is the MOST romantic proposal I’ve ever seen!” one user wrote. “He nailed it!” Another added, “Now that is a lot of effort, girl you’re living the romance novel dream!!!” There’s pretty much no better way to plan a proposal for a book lover than this creative scheme. We wish Bonnie and Chris all the best as they begin to make arrangments for their wedding. No doubt they’ll include a few nods to their mutual love of literature! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Boyfriend Sneakily Designs Custom Romance Novel To Propose To Book-Loving Girlfriend appeared first on InspireMore.

One curious aspect of the UFO phenomenon is how many sightings seem to come in waves, with many witnesses coming forward in the same area within a short span of time, for whatever reasons. This is true not only for UFOs, but also for their supposed occupants, and paranormal researcher and author Albert S Rosales has uncovered one such wave of encounters from 1968 in Spain and has kindly passed along a selection of bizarre reports from that year. Here we will look at a country that at the time seemed to be besieged by an array of humanoid sightings and high strangeness. 

Eyes on the sky, people: Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has a good chance of getting bright enough to be visible to the naked eye in the coming months. It is currently visible only to telescopes, but it is still quite a distance away from the Sun. It has time to get brighter, and could even get as bright as Venus, the brightest planet in the night sky, come October.Its closest passage from the Sun will take place on September 27 and it will be 58.6 million kilometers (36.4 million miles) from our star. That’s a similar distance to Mercury. Then a few weeks after that on October 12, the comet will perform its closest pass to Earth, roughly 70.6 million kilometers (43.9 million miles) away.Maximum magnitude might happen around that time. Some estimates suggest it will be brighter than all but four stars in the sky. An even more optimistic curve pushes it as brighter than Jupiter, and bit less bright than Venus. That would be an extremely bright comet – and it would be visible at sunset, making it a very convenient spectacle if it starts shining as bright as hoped.     The comet was discovered over 15 months ago independently by two observatories. First, by the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory (Purple Mountain Observatory), but it was very faint and it was lost in follow-up observations. It was then found again by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) South Africa. Following the discovery, it was found in older observations from December 2022.

A grieving chimpanzee has been carrying around her dead baby for months at a Spanish zoo in a tragic demonstration of the species’ intelligence and social complexity.Natalia the chimp gave birth to an infant at Bioparc Valencia in early February 2024, but it died just 14 days later.Although infant mortality is extremely high in chimpanzees, it can prove to be devastating for troops because social ties and group cohesion are so important. The recent death of the infant was all the more concerning as Natalia had lost another infant in 2018.Over three months have since passed, but Natalia is still holding the carcass of her lost offspring.“At the moment, the situation remains the same, as she continues to carry the calf. It should be said that it is a natural behavior perfectly documented in this species and other similar ones, even in other mammals such as whales or elephants,” a communications officer at the zoo told IFLScience.Another recent photograph of Natalia holding her deceased infant.Image courtesy of BIOPARC ValenciaChimpanzees, our closest living ancestor, are one of the few animals that some believe to have an understanding of mortality. Numerous studies have shown that chimps respond to group members' deaths and exhibit behavior that's reminiscent of mourning.The behavior seen at Bioparc Valencia has also been reported in the wild. While studying a wild troop of chimps in southeastern Guinea, researchers noticed that two of the mothers, Jire and Vuavua, were carrying the mummified remains of their dead infants."Chimpanzees are humans' closest evolutionary relatives, and they have already been shown to resemble us in many of their cognitive functions: they empathize with others, have a sense of fairness, and can cooperate to achieve goals," Dora Biro, the lead study author and behavioral biologist who made the observations, said in a statement from 2010."How they perceive death is a fascinating question, and little data exist so far concerning chimpanzees' responses to the passing of familiar or related individuals either in captivity or in the wild. Our observations confirm the existence of an extremely powerful bond between mothers and their offspring which can persist, remarkably, even after the death of the infant, and they further call for efforts to elucidate the extent to which chimpanzees understand and are affected by the death of a close relative or group-mate,” Biro added.“This would both have implications for our understanding of the evolutionary origins of human perceptions of death and provide insights into the way chimpanzees interpret the world around them," Biro explained.