Sit back, relax and enjoy the Friday Grail news briefs as we slide into the weekend…
- A ‘landmark finding’: Homo naledi buried their dead 250,000 years ago, according to newly updated research.
- Hyperstition your way to the Red Planet: Are Elon Musk’s Mars goals an attempt to make fiction become reality?
- The next era of psychedelics may be precision-designed states of consciousness.
- Sutton Hoo helmet may actually come from Denmark, archaeologist suggests.
- Related: Spiritualism at Sutton Hoo – the supernatural elements Netflix’s The Dig left out of one of archaeology’s greatest stories.
- Social media influencers pose a “new and increasing threat” for uncontacted indigenous people, after the arrest of a US tourist who travelled to a restricted Indian Ocean island.
- Scientists just discovered quantum signals inside life itself.
- A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning.
- Shingles vaccine linked to reduction in dementia diagnoses, study finds.
- 10 reality-bending facts about the science of multiverses.
- Related: Parallel worlds, parallel lives.
- Discovery of ancient garden beneath Jesus’ burial site backs up Biblical account.
- Blubber bath: That time when dead whale carcasses were used as health cures. Nobody tell RFK Jr!
Quote of the Day:
It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent
David Dunning and Justin Kruger
