The White House has declared a state of emergency in Kentucky after a rare, late-season tornado outbreak that cut a swath of destruction 250 miles (400 kilometers) across Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, and confirmed to have killed at least 76 people. Tornadoes associated with the same weather system, referredread more

Whitley refers to this week’s guest, Prince Stash Klossowski de Rola, as one of the most remarkable people in the world–but also essentially unknown outside of a rarefied group of cognoscenti and a circle of friends. Stash is one of the world’s leading experts on alchemy and a deeply informedread more

A NASA scientist working on a DARPA-funded research project has published a scientific paper announcing that a three-dimensional nanoscopic “warp bubble”, the holy grail of faster-than-light propulsion research, had been observed during an experiment designed to investigate quantum effects. Although a full-fledged warp drive capable of transporting travelers across theread more