Be sure to look past the illusion when reading today’s Grail news briefs…
- A peculiar, short-lived office at the Smithsonian once explored reports of bizarre natural phenomena.
- Modern magic unlocks Merlin’s medieval secrets: Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript have been discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library.
- ‘Dinosaur’ sightings are on the rise in the Congo. Could mokele-mbembe really exist?
- NASA just dropped a new equation that might prove life once existed on Venus.
- A scientist may have just proven that we all live inside a computer simulation.
- Your brain’s resistance to lucid dreaming.
- DOGE cuts deflate NOAA’s balloon network, putting accurate weather forecasts in jeopardy.
- The CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim.
- AI experts say we’re on the wrong path to achieving human-like AI.
- Can trauma from violence be genetically inherited? Scientists debate Syria refugee study.
- Video of the Day: Boston Dynamics’ latest Atlas robot can breakdance and cartwheel.
Quote of the Day:
As we’ve seen through the story of fascism in Europe, charismatic leaders rose to power through the democratic process, and then seized extra-constitutional power by unlawful means.
As history continues to unfold around us today, it’s important to remember that freedom and democracy are not guaranteed.
We are all participants. And we are all responsible.
