Keep your wits about you while reading today’s Grail news briefs…
- These two signals are the closest we’ve come to alien contact.
- Why ancient Egypt smashed Hatshepsut’s statues after her death.
- Vale Ray Stanford (1938-2025): So long to one of the last members of the old UFO contactee scene.
- Did conspiracy theories exist in the Middle Ages? Exploring how medieval plots, suspicions, and scapegoating gave rise to early forms of conspiratorial thinking.
- When will genetically modifying our children go mainstream? (And should it?)
- ‘Deciphering these mysterious strings’: How reading the Inca’s knotted cord language can reveal past droughts and deluges.
- New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect.
- Have you seen the Bigfoot vlogs? It’s the latest big thing online.
- The sublime smarts of slime molds: These single-celled blobs exhibit intelligent behavior. (Archived page link)
- The undead have an old, rich and varied history: Long before zombies were stars on the big screen, they roamed medieval Europe.
- Ceres: The asteroid belt’s forgotten ocean world.
- Killer whales filmed using tools for the first time – and scientists are stunned.
Thanks to @cambskeptics.bsky.social.
Quote of the Day
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
G.K Chesterton
