Amateur space enthusiasts launch paper plane into space →

This sounds like the beginning of a science fiction story. The obvious next step is to create a paper spacecraft that can carry paper astronauts into space.

"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. "

Ray Bradbury (via booklover)

So in 20 years will science textbooks contain a screenshot of this tweet announcing water on Mars? →

(Not that the kids will be using textbooks, anyway, when they can just look everything up on Wikipedia. Also, “FTW.” Hee.)

"The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer’s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man’s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned. For example, you know that the capital of California is Sacramento, but you probably don’t remember how you learned it. This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true."

How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain (via azspot)