🤗 Upvotes: 147 | cs.CVAuthors: Yujia Zhang, Xiaoyang Wu, Yixing Lao, Chengyao Wang, Zhuotao Tian, Naiyan Wang, Hengshuang Zhao Title: Concerto: Joint 2D-3D Self-Supervised Learning Emerges Spatial Representations Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23607v1 Abstract: Humans learn abstract concepts through multisensory synergy, and once formed, such representations can often be

In this in-depth interview, host Martin Willis welcomes veteran UFO researcher Donald Schmitt, protégé of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the famed astronomer behind Project Blue Book. Schmitt shares rare personal insights into Hynek’s life, his shift from skeptic to believer, and the behind-the-scenes struggles with government secrecy. They explore pivotal UFO cases including Socorro, Roswell, Pascagoula, Travis Walton, and reveal how Hynek quietly investigated Roswell before its public rediscovery. Schmitt

What if one night, someone saw you walking away… while you were still inside? And what if years later, your own child started talking to someone who shouldn’t exist anymore? First, a young girl named Madeline steps out of a small-town Kansas movie theater, or so her father and sister think. They watch her cross toward the train tracks — same clothes, same hair, same movements. But the real Madeline was still in the restroom. When she emerged minutes later, they realized they had seen something

For most of her life, she only felt things — brief flashes of warning, uncanny instincts that something terrible or strange was about to happen. Her husband called it coincidence… until she began predicting car accidents, visits, and phone calls before they occurred. She didn’t ask for it — the sensations came uninvited, slipping through like static from a broken radio. Then she beat cancer… and everything changed. One night, half-awake, she felt pressure along her spine — a faint hum that grew

On this week's nature news, Nadia & Ryan have a big natter about COP30 in Belem, Brazil after Greenpeace report on a big oil extraction from The Amazon rainforest just weeks before the event. We are then joined by the wonderful Mary Colwell to give a quick update on the UK's Natural History GCSE!Show notes: Links to all stories mentioned: Oil Extraction in The Amazon / Pakayaku Protect Forest Support us: If you'd like to say "cheers" to the Into The Wild team & help support us with running

Send us a text A perfect circle of mushrooms in the grass can feel like a message. We follow that feeling into the heart of fungi and folklore with Amanda McLoughlin and Julia Schifini of Spirits, exploring why mushrooms unsettle us, how they anchor myth, and what they can teach us about living with limits and wonder. From fairy rings and house spirits to cordyceps and body horror, we trace the line between ecology and story: a mycelial network expands and fruits at the edge, myth calls it a ...

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism (University of Texas Press, 2024) demonstrates how the cultural forms of Iran and Afghanistan as nation-states arose from their shared Persian heritage and cross-cultural exchange in the twentieth century. In

Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.From the mid-20th century to the present, Latin America and other regions in the Global South have experienced a remarkable demographic trend, with millions of people moving from rural areas to cities in search of work, healthcare, and education. Without other options,

Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content takedowns, account suspensions, and mounting pressure on technology companies to do more, hate thrives online. Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism (Princeton University Press, 2025) looks at how content moderation shapes the tactics of harmful content

In this powerful episode of The Alpha Male Coach Podcast, Kevin breaks down the core framework of transformation used within the Academy for Consciousness Expansion: the Five Phases of Awakening. This system represents the primary logos of the Academy - a deliberate and structured path that leads men from unconscious survival-based living to conscious, self-authored creation.Kevin begins by revisiting three major analogies he has taught in previous episodes: the holographic reality, the 1% vs. 99%

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! What do Civil War soldiers, FBI cold cases, and Ed & Lorraine Warren all have in common? One woman: Courtney McInvale. Raised in Connecticut with deep Southern roots, Courtney’s journey has been anything but ordinary. From her time interning with NCIS and tracking real-life criminals to founding Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours and authoring paranormal history books, she’s lived her life on the thin line between investigation and intuition. In this

He was raised a Christian. He believed in heaven, angels, and light at the end of the tunnel. But after dying three times on the operating table, everything he thought he knew about death was shattered. When he came back, there was no bright light. No tunnel. No angelic choir. Just emptiness—and then, in the days that followed, something darker. While lying in his hospital bed, he glanced at the television. It wasn’t on—yet it played disturbing images of two men murdering each other over and over

This episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies features Stéphen Huard talking about Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar (‎Berghahn Books, 2024), in which he takes a deep dive into the history and anthropology of village leadership in Myanmar’s central dry zone, or anya. In it, Stéphen develops “calibrated engagement” as a category to describe relations among headmen and big men, or lugyi, from his observations in two villages near Monywa. Though the

Today, we have a special edition of Rossifari Zoo News: an interview with Dani Larson all about a recent fly off with one of the birds she was training at Southwick's. We go into every detail of what happened, what worked, what didn't, what the team was feeling, and so much more! We also sidebar into an interesting discussion about social media as it surrounds this topic, and of course pick on each other mercilessly. EPISODE LINKS: southwickszoo.com @southwickszooofficial o...

"In him we live and move and have our being." When Paul quoted the Greek poet Epimenides at Mars Hill in Acts 17, the Athenian philosophers weren't confused—they knew exactly what he was referencing. Their council of gods. In this LIVE from Blurry Con preview, Dr. Joel Muddamalle explains that Greek philosophy included a divine hierarchy ruling over nations and territories, strikingly similar to what Scripture describes in Deuteronomy 32:8. When God judged humanity at Babel, He didn't just scatter

The government's Drought Group has warned of ongoing problems in the year ahead unless reservoirs and rivers get enough rain in the next few months. The hot dry summer has pushed many farmers to re-evaluate how they use water. We speak to an expert who works with farmers and landowners to plan and manage water use. This week on Farming Today we've been looking at invasive species - from the Asian hornet which is killing our native honey bees, to Himalayan Balsam which spreads quickly and can choke

A family home built in the 1800s becomes the heart of a haunting that refuses to fade. When a young girl loses her grandmother, she thinks death means goodbye—until the night she wakes to find her standing by the window, glowing in blue light, wearing the same gown she was buried in. Years later, the house still breathes with memories. Footsteps echo in empty rooms, the air grows heavy on the stairs, and two siblings share the same nightmare—of a closet that doesn’t exist. When renovations uncover

It started with footsteps on the porch. Then came the knocks—three of them, always loud, always at the front door. When Mike and his girlfriend moved into his late grandfather’s home, they thought they were just cleaning up old memories. Instead, they stepped straight into a haunting that wouldn’t stop. What began as faint footsteps circling the house escalated into relentless pounding and violent noises from the basement. Even friends who came to visit heard it for themselves—the unmistakable

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! What do Civil War soldiers, FBI cold cases, and Ed & Lorraine Warren all have in common? One woman: Courtney McInvale. Raised in Connecticut with deep Southern roots, Courtney’s journey has been anything but ordinary. From her time interning with NCIS and tracking real-life criminals to founding Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours and authoring paranormal history books, she’s lived her life on the thin line between investigation and intuition. In this