No matter what you’re an expert in, you’ll find something of interest in the Tuesday Grail news briefs!
- Tasmanian tigers discovered in Indigenous rock art in Australia, suggesting these marsupials lived there much longer than thought.
- Non-believer Bill Maher now believes in UFOs.
- Scientists testing new scanning technology discover mysterious structure beneath an ancient Egyptian city.
- Welcome to the Technocracy: The dreams of a forgotten movement from the 1930s live on.
- Related, my essay from a couple of years ago: The Technocratic Conspiracy – how tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world.
- Medical episode that left ISS astronaut unable to speak remains a mystery.
- AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that ‘meaningfully limits’ the use of this data.
- The Sun’s latest outburst complicates the planned launch of Artemis 2.
- Pompeii study confirms ancient Roman ‘wine’ ritual previously known only from texts.
- Your consciousness can enter alternate dimensions while you’re dreaming, scientist claims.
- Can future astronauts be put into comas for long-distance space travel like in Project Hail Mary? (Archived page link)
- The strange reason humans have been obsessed with crystals for 800,000 years – chimps might have the answer.
- There’s no such thing as a shark, suggest scientists: Analysis of shark DNA has thrown a wrench into our understanding of these sharp-toothed predators.
- 12,000-year-old pyramid ruins uncovered off Louisiana coast could be evidence of a lost city, claims amateur archaeologist.
Quote of the Day
Never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing. A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning – they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.
