No demons were involved in the writing of today’s Grail news briefs…
- These toads have psychedelic powers, but they’d prefer to keep it quiet. (Archived page link)
- Ancient crystalline arrowhead discovered in Sweden.
- Related: The crystal weapons of prehistoric Spain.
- She wanted to save the world from A.I. Then the killing started. (Archived page link)
- This giant bird went extinct 600 years ago – scientists say they can resurrect it.
- Metadata shows that the FBI’s “raw” Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. (Archived page link)
- Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists.
- AI helped decode a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn that describes a city more welcoming than you’d expect.
- Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it.
- Stunning facial reconstructions of the ‘Hobbit,’ Neanderthal and Homo erectus bring human relatives to life.
- Human-constructed dams have shifted the Earth’s poles, scientists say.
- Video of the Day: The Pentagon’s Ghostbusters.
Quote of the Day
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok – if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you.


