A heads-up that the Grail is currently suspended from Twitter (due to their algorithm being dumb and auto-flagging something it shouldn’t have). Which is a good reminder that you shouldn’t rely on social media to see our stuff – instead, be sure to bookmark the Grail and visit regularly!
- Extinct pathogens ushered the fall of ancient civilisations, scientists say.
- New Mexico mammoths among the best evidence for humans in North America earlier than previously thought.
- The animal worlds that lie beyond our perception.
- Schrödinger believed that there was only one mind in the universe.
- Transhumanists want to upload their minds to a computer. They really won’t like the result.
- Sandman: is there any evidence to suggest that our dreams have meaning?
- UFO documentary Moment of Contact investigates a real-life X-file.
- Hal Puthoff’s ultraterrestrials paper finally released.
- This curvy quantum physics discovery could revolutionise our understanding of reality.
- What a decade of Curiosity has taught us about life on Mars.
- Earth is suddenly spinning faster and no-one knows why.
- Scientist apologizes after posting image of star that was actually a slice of sausage.
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Quote of the Day:
There’s only a handful of people at these companies who understand how these [algorithm] systems work, and even they don’t necessarily fully understand what’s going to happen with a particular piece of content. So as humans we’ve almost lost control over these systems. Because they’re controlling the information that we see, they’re controlling us more than we’re controlling them.
Sandy Parakilas (former operations manager at Facebook)
