Pretty much every culture in the world has a coming-of-age ceremony to mark a child’s passage into adulthood. For some, it’s just a fun celebration. For others, it’s a brutal, scarring horror show. In today’s video, I look at some of the wildest rites of passage on the planet and ask…...
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Could the galaxies captured in JWST’s deep field images actually be our local galaxy cluster, just reflected back at us? This, plus quantum computers, famous people I know, and my cringiest video in today’s Lightning Round video.