A recent article from Popular Science describes research that suggests a quantum entanglement as a mechanism for bird navigation. Birds may actually “see” magnetic fields by virtue of the retinal compound cryptochrome.

If true, this would highlight the profound linkages possible between life forms and the planet itself. Indeed, another BBC item makes a connection between [...]

Memorandum
Terran Status Report
Galactic Star Date 98852404

To: Contact Agents
From: Galactic Unity Operations Centre, Contact Division
Terra remains on “Protected” status, due to the inhabitants’ extreme vulnerability. Some of the more obvious aspects of this vulnerability are listed below, along with a summary of hopeful features that indicate an emerging readiness for Contact. Although Terrans are theoretically now [...]

TNN, the Terran News network, is proud to announce, for the first time, that the Galactic Academy of Sciences has launched an ambitious programme to attempt to find signs of life on other galaxies. Called the “Search for Extragalactic Intelligence”, or SEGI for short, it will attempt to passively and actively contact civilisations from other [...]

Several human professions have trailblazers who have considered the implications of contact with an Intelligent Extraterrestrial Race (ET). This essay will review those forays into the future, and ask questions about the meaning and relevance of visionary extensions into an uncertain future. I tentatively conclude that Contact may not be what we imagine. Our vanity [...]