No need to steal any of today’s Grail news briefs, there’s plenty for everyone!
- Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending.
- New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
- Scientists are racing to unearth the secrets of the ancient civilizations submerged by the North and Baltic seas some 8,000 years ago.
- Something strange happens to wolves infected by infamous mind-altering parasite.
- Related: Researchers find more evidence that our behaviour might be controlled by this microscopic parasite.
- Scientists are finally taking altered states of consciousness seriously.
- Intelligence doesn’t make you immune to conspiracy theories – it’s more about thinking style.
- Beware climate populism: the most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of tomorrow.
- The surprising roots of ancient Rome’s gladiator fights: the quintessential Roman spectacle, originally a way to honor the dead, was not Roman in origin.
- Are you hypnotizable? Why some of us are more susceptible to hypnotism than others.
- Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in its first human.
- 45,000-year-old bones unearthed in cave are oldest modern-human remains in Central Europe.
- Image of the Day: Astronaut snaps photo of Earth’s atmospheric glow.
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Quote of the Day:
The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty. Nothing has so beneficent an effect on human beings as security.
Bertrand Russell
