The world is full of disappointment, but the Wednesday Grail news briefs won’t let you down!
- The U.S. Congress: Your go-to source for UFO theater. How a few congressionally sanctioned crank UFOlogists laid waste to the minimal standards of adult government oversight.
- Dan Brown’s new novel The Secret of Secrets explores a whole bunch of Daily Grail-related topics.
- Terence McKenna, the would-be Jesus of psychedelics: A new biography explores the life and ideas of the man who founded the first primitive religion of the future.
- Hippos survived the Ice Age in Europe, new DNA evidence reveals.
- Very soon, ICE will know exactly where you are all the time: They’re planning on buying a tool that will let it see hundreds of millions of phones’ location data.
- What sleep is: It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest.
- “Drilling to this depth is unprecedented on Mars”: How the ESA’s new robotic rover will take the search for alien life to new depths.
- In the footsteps of giants: One of the world’s longest dinosaur trackways uncovered in Oxfordshire quarry.
- Scientists think time travel is possible – if we could move at warp speed.
- The US Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion verdicts in Sandy Hook defamation cases.
- Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography.
- Image(s) of the Day: The most iconic genre movie posters of the late Drew Struzan.
Quote of the Day
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut. They can be robbed, prevented from moving about, wounded or killed, but they cannot be enslaved: that is, made to act against their own reasonable will.
Leo Tolstoy
