Here’s the Wednesday Grail news briefs to get you over the hump…
- The Nerd Reich: Are Silicon Valley billionaires building a new fascist world order?
- Related: The technocratic conspiracy – how tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world.
- Ancient Calakmul mural is the earliest evidence of Maya calendar writing.
- A genuine science-based debate about near-death experiences?
- NASA detects intense heat beneath Io, Jupiter’s most volcanic moon.
- Heatwave reveals lost ancient Welsh landscapes.
- The body’s hidden light detectors: From camouflage to timekeeping to wound healing, light-sensing proteins called opsins perform all kinds of jobs in nature beyond helping creatures to see.
- The most disturbing drawings of an alien abduction.
- This star is racing around the Milky Way’s black hole at 8% the speed of light.
- The secret lives of insects: A collection of stories about fruit fly dialects, the star navigation of dung beetles, and more.
- Video of the Day: Can cells think?
Quote of the Day
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
George Orwell (‘1984’)
