There’s more important news stories about, but probably none as fascinating as the ones in the Wednesday Grail news briefs!
- Could invisible planet fly-bys have triggered Earth’s mass extinctions?
- The Neanderthal extinction mystery just got even stranger.
- People with psychiatric disorders tend to have a smaller pineal gland.
- ‘He looked like Ramses the Great’: How experimental archaeologists used ancient techniques to mummify a modern-day person.
- From Stephenville to the Pentagon: Institutionalizing the UFO.
- The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
- Related: ‘Water lightning‘ – the mysterious Polynesian navigation method known as Te lapa.
- This start-up wants to use space mirrors to light up Earth at night – and the Feds just said go ahead.
- Scientists finally solved the mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying’, and it might be bad news for our future: The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today.
- Scientists find intense breathwork can trigger psychedelic-like states and lasting psychological changes.
- The looting of science fiction: Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.
- Related: Elon Musk is full of shit – we’ve reached the end-game of tech billionaires using science fiction as a marketing tool.
Quote of the Day
A person who has had the misfortune to fall victim to the spell of a philosophical system (and the spells of sorcerers are mere trifles in comparison to the disastrous effect of the spell of a philosophical system!) can no longer see the world, or people, or historic events, as they are; he sees everything only through the distorting prism of the system by which he is possessed.
Valentin Tomberg
