Screw determinism, there’s nothing predictable about today’s Grail news briefs!
- Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: we don’t have free will. He was always going to though…
- Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
- The worth of wild ideas: even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
- Faerie-type entities and the DMT experience: an ontological survey.
- Moving stones has a magical effect at this secret shrine in Scotland.
- Is there a UFO in that Renaissance painting? Seven historical artworks that (possibly) depict close encounters with the third kind. (Actually ArtNet, all but one of those are only encounters of the first or second kind… /pedant)
- ‘Monster quake‘ hints at mysterious source within Mars.
- Panspermia: it’s possible that frozen worlds with subterranean oceans are incubators of organic life – but then how did life get here?
- Bad news for Indiana Jones: Ancient Egypt was a hotbed of venemous snakes.
- Strangely engraved rock is a giant ‘treasure map’, archaeologists say.
- Study shows Neanderthals inherited at least 6% of their genome from a now-extinct lineage of early modern humans.
- Menacing clown ‘stalking’ village dares police to catch them.
Quote of the Day:
I was raised when I saw ugliness, to try to make some beauty
Found purpose in the duty when I couldn’t find the shore
What beauty couldn’t lift just simply floated on adrift
Rolling on directionless and lost forevermore.
Billy Strings (‘This Old World‘)
