Apologies if you couldn’t get to the Grail yesterday – a massive Cloudflare outage took us (and many others) out for a couple of hours. But we’re back now and posting the daily news as always!
- Sunken city discovered in Kyrgyzstan lake was a medieval hotspot on the Silk Road — until an earthquake wiped it out.
- Your brain is naturally telepathic, research suggests – meaning our minds are all connected.
- Eerie sightings of ‘sea serpents’ have haunted sailors for centuries — we went to a famous monster hunter for answers to the mystery.
- Alternative history writer Graham Hancock visits the ancient coastal pyramids of Peru.
- World’s largest ‘modern’ impact crater – formed when the last ice age ended roughly 11,700 years ago – found hiding in plain sight in China.
- University receives major gift to advance scientific research into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
- Video catches wild wolf pulling in crab trap to get to food — but is it tool use?
- The word for ”wind”: How ancient civilizations explained an invisible force.
- Memo to tech bros: Black Mirror is not a Pinterest board.
- 12,000-year-old artifact depicts a goose having sex with a woman.
- Scientists discover the origin of kissing – and it’s not human (no, not geese either).
- Secretive SpaceX satellites operated by US government are shooting disruptive radio signals into space, astronomer accidentally discovers.
- Researchers discover how the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms alters brain circuits tied to addiction.
Quote of the Day
Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you’re gonna come to the conclusion that you’re a rat.
Alan Moore
