We have scanned today’s Daily Grail news briefs thoroughly to ensure that no fragile tin-pot dictators’ egos are bruised by any of the stories we collected…
- Anthropologist claims hand positions on 1,300-year-old Maya altar have a deeper meaning, saying they might represent key dates in the Maya Long Count Calendar.
- Space is the new frontier of war, officials say in change of tone.
- The land bridge you’ve never heard of: Recently discovered stone tools in Turkey suggest the presence of a bygone landmass that early humans may have used to cross into Europe.
- Scientists are closer to reviving the long-lost dodo with new landmark avian genetics breakthrough.
- Under Trump, the FDA is seeking to abandon expert reviews of new drugs. So that should work out absolutely fine, I’m sure we all agree!
- Submerged port discovery could lead to Cleopatra’s lost tomb.
- How your brain constructs – and sometimes distorts – your experience of the world.
- First ever photos reveal secretive giant rat of New Guinea.
- Alien: Earth – how realistic are the extraterrestrials? Three experts rank them
- A multiculturalism of the undead: Labeling the undead figures in non-European mythology, popular culture, and academia as “vampires” doesn’t make sense.
- Artificial intelligence can predict people’s health problems over a decade into the future say scientists, by learning to spot patterns in people’s medical records to calculate their risk of more than 1,000 diseases.
- A police investigation has begun after a historic white horse carved into a Wiltshire hillside was temporarily turned into an England flag.
- Antiscience is an existential threat.
- Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. Bottoms up!
Quote of the Day
[A free press] is an invaluable arm of the presidency, as a check really on what’s going on in the administration… There’s a terrific disadvantage to not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily.
Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it, even though we disapprove – there isn’t any doubt that we couldn’t do the job at all in a free society without a free press.
John F. Kennedy
