Settle down with a totally regular supper and enjoy the Easter Friday Grail news briefs!
- Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet.
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX reported to have formed a consortium with Peter Thiel’s Palantir and Anduril to bid on building Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense shield, which they would sell to the government as a ‘subscription service’.
- If you’ve read my article “The Technocratic Conspiracy: How tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world“, you’d know why your response to the above story should be ‘nope’ to the power of a thousand.
- Massive circular tomb filled with battle-scarred people unearthed in Peru.
- Religious scholar Elaine Pagels sifts through history in search of Jesus. (Archived page link)
- The surprisingly controversial origins of the Easter bunny.
- Related: Hare’s eggs for Easter – speculation about the origin of the strange mix of bunnies and eggs at Easter time.
- Why do some dreams seem to predict the future?
- The truth about life on other planets – and what it means for humans.
- What right do we have to colonise other worlds?
- Zoo elephants form ‘alert circle’ during San Diego earthquake.
- ‘Big leap’ for Parkinson’s treatment: symptoms improve in stem-cell trials. (Archived page link)
Quote of the Day:
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr