Here’s the Grail news to get you past hump day!
- Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say.
- Tripsitting the megarich: A cottage industry of professional drug babysitters are getting paid to watch the world’s wealthiest people lose their minds. (Archived page link)
- Tiny artifact found by metal detectorist complicates the story of Sutton Hoo, and may rewrite the history of early English metallurgy.
- Related: Spiritualism at Sutton Hoo – the supernatural elements Netflix’s The Dig left out of one of archaeology’s greatest stories.
- What was the “jellyfish-like” drone swarm the downed F-15 pilot reportedly saw over Iran?
- If aliens landed on Earth tomorrow, what would they eat?.
- See Stonehenge’s construction like never before: Incredible visual reveals the vast manpower needed to haul 25-tonne stones into position 5,000 years ago.
- A source of mysterious repeating radio signals from space has been identified. (Archived page link)
- ‘Nuclear tech bros’ test America’s atomic revival: Young founders backed by Silicon Valley and Trump race to start reactors despite experts’ safety fears. (Archived page link)
- Biologists want NASA to build a quarantine lab for alien germs on the Moon.
- Memory on trial: The new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony. (Archived page link)
- ‘It was completely shocking to me”: Archaeologists discover the earliest monumental Egyptian hieroglyphs written 1,000 years before the pyramids.
Quote of the Day
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
